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Labor and Employment Federal Litigation Trends 2026
Drawing on more than a decade of data, the report equips law firms and corporate legal teams with actionable insights to better assess risk, refine strategy, and anticipate outcomes in today’s evolving workplace disputes.
* Law school deans scrambling to save the LSAT, seeking a rule requiring no more than 25 percent of grads admitted without a test. You know, before y’all blew them off, you could’ve worked with U.S. News to tank the rankings of schools that overused the non-test option. But you just had to throw your fit, didn’t you? [Reuters]
* Article poses that legal churn makes law firms inherently unstable. Yeah… that’s how free markets work. [American Lawyer]
* DOJ racking up wins in crypto cases. [Law360]
* Study confirms there’s no returning from hybrid work schedules no matter what the firms may want. [Bloomberg Law News]
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* Client suing Herrick Feinstein for $1.1B over blown deadlines. [Bisnow]