With a “good, strong, solid year” in 2025, the Midwest-centered firm was ranked on the Am Law 200 for the first time.       

“It … means that many thousands of cases were wrongly decided, and default judgments were wrongly entered,” said defendant-appellant counsel Wesley Johnson of Cross-Border Counselor.       

Tim Brown comes to Principal after eight years at Venerable, a startup that helps insurers contain their variable annuity losses by buying their old blocks of business and 16 years at what’s now called Voya Financial.       

The St. Louis-founded firm grew lawyer head count by nearly 20% in 2025 and exceeded its net income budget by about 10%.       

The federal appellate court affirmed a ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana requiring an adult plaintiff accused of sexual misconduct in a university Title IX proceeding to litigate under his real name rather than a pseudonym.       

U.S. District Judge Maria A. Lanahan for the Eastern District of Missouri approved a $440,000 settlement resolving a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action brought by health care workers against Midwest Geriatric Management.       

“In its arguments on appeal, law firm is, in essence, asking us to ignore this language within the arbitration agreement because the contract allegedly involves interstate commerce, but this we cannot do,” the state appellate court said.       

Strategic lateral hiring and a focus on cross-selling across the firm led to double-digit increases in revenue and profits at Foley & Lardner in 2025.       

“I think it’s worthwhile that the Seventh Circuit recognizes that there’s something going on and that these aren’t just regular cases,” a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law told Law.com. “We have so few Seventh Circuit decisions that even talk about Schedule A, [and] even fewer presidential ones.”       

The Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District reversed the Boone County Circuit Court’s $6.14 million judgment for Connie E. Lyda, finding that the ruling improperly stripped Allstate of its statutory right to contest liability and damages under the Revised Statutes of Missouri, Section 537.065.4.