Due in part to increases in billing rates, law firm revenue and profitability have seen a comparatively smooth year.

The oil and gas industry has changed, according to the most recent General Counsel (GC) compensation report for Texas.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has formally discontinued expedited review of design patent applications.

Benjamin Fliegel was appointed as Reed Smith’s new managing partner for their Los Angeles office.

Five new lawyers with a range of backgrounds have joined Smith Anderson.

A seasoned litigator with over 25 years of BigLaw experience, most recently with Cooley LLP, has joined BakerHostetler’s white collar, investigations, and securities enforcement litigation as well as securities and governance litigation teams in New York.

Adrian Bernard has become an associate in the Litigation Group at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC (CSG Law).

When XOMA Royalty Corporation acquired clinical-stage immuno-oncology startup LAVA Therapeutics N.V., Gibson Dunn served as its representative.

According to ALM statistics, law firms are expanding their ancillary businesses at a faster rate in an effort to raise overall income. The firms that are listed within the Am Law 100 have had the biggest increase in these subsidiaries.

A partner from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has been enticed to co-lead a commercial real estate securitization team after the firm suffered a number of real estate departures to Sidley Austin this year.