After months of debate and division, the U.S. Senate is primed to confirm David F. Hamilton of Indiana for a seat on a federal appeals court.

To say that Preet Bharara has hit the ground running since he started his new job would be an understatement.

Deliberations were scheduled to begin today in the trial of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers.

Gerald L. Shargel continues to get work.

The Minow family is reshaping America.

Sonia Sotomayor is in. Could John Paul Stevens be on his way out?

Sandra Day O’Connor may have retired from the U.S. Supreme Court, but she has not given up judging.

Whether or not the perjury case against baseball’s Barry Bonds goes to trial could depend upon who becomes the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

Note to federal judges: Don’t save those bawdy, possibly obscene and most likely sexist e-mail attachments e-mailed to you by your college roommate.

Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 72, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has served since 1988, remains the key to the Supreme Court.

Sonia Sotomayor got reversed Monday, as the U.S. Supreme Court turned back a decision she had backed as a federal judge.

On his last day on the Supreme Court, Justice David Souter swore in Julius Genachowski as new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

For Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the turning point may have come when she had lunch with Jose A. Cabranes in 1976.

Where do financial regulators wind up when they leave their government jobs? A good number go to Davis Polk & Wardwell.

The $90,000 in cold cash found in William Jefferson’s refrigerator was evidence of an FBI sting operation that flopped, says defense attorney Robert Trout.

The estate of a dead writer who created a fictional wizard named Willy wants $50 million from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

In a role reversal of sorts, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is being asked to defend her membership in a private club for women.

Upon gradation from Yale Law School in 1979, Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s pick to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, made a surprising career choice.

A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame could have a hand in deciding the outcome of the contested U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.

Lawyers David Boies and Theodore B. Olson were on the opposite sides of a case that determined a presidency.