Judith Kaye, the first woman to serve on New York’s seven-member Court of Appeals and the first woman to serve as New York State’s chief judge, died at 77 years old. So reports the New York Law Journal.

For at least the second year, the New York based litigation firm Boies Schiller & Flexner paid a couple of its associates bonuses as high as $350,000. So reports Above The Law.

From Michael Jordan to mass murder and wrongful birth, here are some notable verdicts from August.