One company’s downfall is another company’s opportunity, particularly if the other company is a law firm.

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

Should Sonia Sotomayor be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, six of the nine members of the court will be Roman Catholic.

As soon as word leaked out Tuesday that Sonia Sotomayor would be President Barack Obama’s pick for the U.S. Supreme Court, opposition voices spoke out.

But for Bernard L. Madoff, Marc S. Dreier might be a household name.

With Justice David H. Souter leaving, will Sonia Sotomayor finally make it to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Jay S. Bybee is the forgotten man among the legal architects of the torture policies of the George W. Bush administration.

Linda Chatman Thomsen, who took heat for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s failure to detect Bernard L. Madoff’s ongoing fraud, is returning to private practice with her former law firm.

Henry F. Schuelke III, a lawyer with links to a wide variety of high-profile cases, has taken on the task of investigating the bungled prosecution of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.

As the financial crisis spread wider and wider in 2008, H. Rodgin Cohen got more and more work.

It appears that the financial fate of the sprawling Tribune media empire may hinge on the company’s rights to a 78-year-old comic book character.

To save on travel expenses, the Harvard Law School Class of 1991 might as well have its reunion this year at the White House.

New legal challenges for search giant Google Inc. may be looming - and from chief executive Eric Schmidt’s new BFF Barack Obama, of all people.

The descendants of Geronimo, the Apache chief whose skull is rumored to be part of the rituals of Yale’s Skull and Bones Society, filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the return of their ancestor’s remains.

Former Bush Administration official John Yoo has temporarily traded his job on the law faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, for a teaching gig in more conservative Orange County, CA.

Administrations come and go, but Latham & Watkins remains a constant - a white-shoe law firm that serves as a de facto farm team for the U.S. Justice Department, regardless of a president’s political leanings.

Members of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Inc. have hired some of the best-connected lawyers in the business.

In August, prominent Manhattan lawyer Marc S. Dreier was in court arguing that celebrity editor Judith Regan had stiffed his firm out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yesterday, Dreier was in another court, attending his own bail hearing.

Washington lawyer Gregory B. Craig is no stranger to high-profile clients. And he’s no stranger to the White House, either.

The perks of being a federal judge just got fewer.