Proskauer Rose said Monday it had elected Joseph Leccese, 49, as its new chairman, making him the youngest elected chair in the firm’s 135-year history. He will succeed Allen Fagin, who will step down in January after serving the maximum six-year term as chair

Washington lawyer Leicester Stovell says a federal judge should not dismiss his lawsuit trying to prove that basketball star LeBron James is his son. In his filing last week, Stovell says a motion to dismiss his suit is partly a “diatribe” accusing him of “crawling out of the woodwork after the child he never gave a thought to became an NBA star.” Stovell’s filing says the judge in the case is the only one who can give him the final answer he’s looking for about paternity — as well as money for “mental anguish.”

It’s not a legal slam dunk, but a Chicago jury has awarded $2 million to former NBA star Scottie Pippen in a malpractice suit against a law firm that represented him in a business deal that went bad.

The dismissal of the SEC’s complaint against billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks NBA team owner Mark Cuban marked the first time a court has analyzed specifically what kind of an agreement can give rise to insider trading liability based on the “misappropriation” theory.