Columnist David Lat explores how jury consultants go about choosing juries for big-ticket cases such as the Menendez and Trump trials, and the research they perform on candidates’ backgrounds.

Attorneys are opening their wallets for Vice President Kamala Harris, who has risen to the top of the Democratic ticket to replace President Joe Biden.

Hisaya Kimura joined Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as a disputes partner in Tokyo, the firm announced Tuesday.

Companies that borrow money with interest rates tied to meeting greenhouse gas emissions targets or maintaining a diverse board won’t have to report these transactions using complex derivatives accounting rules under a proposal released Tuesday by US accounting standard-setters.

Omni Bridgeway LLC is continuing to fight Apple Inc. in its quest to force the litigation funder to turn over documents related to its role in a patent suit against the tech giant.

The federal judiciary’s administrative office is using the Ninth Circuit’s modernized case management system as a “model” and “testing ground” for its own project to update its own electronic filing program, the appeals court’s chief judge said.