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A woman gave birth in a Brooklyn, New York City, courtroom Friday as she was waiting to appear before a judge on low-level charges. Samantha…
Government, Education Law, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Employees, Employers, Public Interest, Civil Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, 11th Circuit Court, States, Georgia,
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh whether federally funded school employees can privately sue for sex discrimination under Title IX of the 1972…
Heightened security is necessary for U.S. Supreme Court justices, and that makes some things difficult for Justice Clarence Thomas, he recently told a Florida audience…
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As more states approve methods beyond taking an exam to join the bar, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to…
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Aspiring lawyers who head to the bar exam without earning a law degree from an ABA-approved law school are more likely to flunk the bar…
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Colorado has passed a bill that bans fee sharing with nonlawyers. Under the bill, known as the Colorado Legal Practice Integrity and Fee-Sharing Prohibition Act,…
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A California federal judge who approved a $700 million antitrust settlement with Google described the class counsel’s $85 million attorney fees request as "patently unreasonable"…
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California inched closer to moving away from its proprietary bar exam and adopting the new NextGen Uniform Bar Examination—without a state-specific component, for now.On Thursday,…
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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge who made disparaging remarks and interrupted litigants in court was recently publicly admonished by the state’s judicial disciplinary body…
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is committing nearly $1 million to a new initiative that promotes public service by pairing its summer associates with nonprofit…
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The Senate Judiciary Committee recently voted to send the federal court judge nomination of one of President Donald Trump's personal lawyers to the U.S. Senate…
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Stephen S. Herst readily admits he’s as “guilty as anyone” of texting with clients. The government services and corporate partner in the Wilmington, Delaware, office…
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Employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the union representing the agency’s workers are suing the secretary of the deparment over a series of…
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A former Brooklyn Supreme Court justice was arrested Tuesday for allegedly participating in numerous schemes to defraud investors in commercial real estate deals. Judge Edward…
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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has launched Claude for Legal, dramatically expanding its generative AI offerings for lawyers and legal professionals. In a Tuesday press release,…
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The number of law school grads who took jobs in government, public interest and federal clerkship positions decreased in 2025. Looking at the data from…
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The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the District of Columbia Bar over its efforts to discipline former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark.…
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A federal judge in Michigan has been sentenced to six months of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor drunk driving charge, Reuters reports.U.S.…
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Prosecutors in South Carolina said they plan to retry disgraced and disbarred South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and…
Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Trials & Litigation, Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, States, California,
The parents of a 19-year-old college student sued technology and research company OpenAI in a California court Tuesday after their son fatally overdosed on a…
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Jany Martínez-Ward’s first encounter with the law was in 1999, when her family crossed the border between Matamoros, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas, and was immediately…
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A former summer associate at DLA Piper is suing the law firm for alleged discrimination because of her Palestinian origin and pro-Palestine activism. Yasmeen Elagha…
Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Sentencing/Post Conviction, Family Law, Domestic & Sexual Violence, Trials & Litigation, Tort Law, States, Nevada,
Two women who alleged that they were trafficked for years by convicted sex offender and former actor Nathan Chasing Horse filed a federal lawsuit last…
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How undergraduates make decisions about their postgraduate education and future careers will be the focus of new research by the Association of American Law Schools…
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The use of arbitration as an alternative to litigation has been rising for a while now. Fueled by favorable U.S. Supreme Court rulings and long…
Career & Practice, Ethics, Lawyer Discipline, Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, Government, Federal Government, State Government, Judiciary, Court Administration, States, New York,
President Donald Trump’s appointee for U.S. attorney in Albany, New York, was found to have committed professional misconduct, according to the New York judicial committee…
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What if instead of taking the bar exam, you could get paid to work in a law office in a rural location under the close…
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The standards committee of the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is recommending that an educational standard mandating…
Government, Federal Government, Legal History, Real Estate & Property Law, Zoning, Land Use, Trials & Litigation, Litigation Management, States, District of Columbia,
Historic preservationists asked a federal judge Monday to immediately stop President Donald Trump’s ongoing project to resurface the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool and repaint the…
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The Utah judge presiding over the murder case of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk has ruled that he won’t impose a blanket prohibition on media…
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A San Antonio attorney was hit with two lawsuits within weeks of each other, both alleging that he used lawyer trust accounts to collect millions…
Increasingly, managers are using AI, rather than humans, to take meeting notes. That’s a terrible idea, according to lawyers. Its two main problems are discovery-related,…
The Justice Department has announced it launched an investigation into Steve Descano, the Democratic prosecutor of Virginia’s largest county, regarding his office's plea bargaining, charging…
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Attorney Neal Katyal revealed last week that he used artificial intelligence to prepare for his argument against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, drawing swift criticism online.…
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Penn State Dickinson Law School’ strategic plan for the next five years will include an “antiracism” focus, according to the Washington Free Beacon. In a…
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A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher attorney has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the government in a multimillion-dollar mergers-and-acquisitions insider trading case. Bloomberg…
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Actor Blake Lively, who recently settled her lawsuit against actor Justin Baldoni's production company, is still seeking damages from the actor and director whom she…
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Besides mediating contract disputes and raising two children, Canada lawyer Christine Kilby has got jokes. She’s been doing standup at various Toronto clubs, and her…
Career & Practice, Ethics, Lawyer Discipline, Criminal Justice, Prosecutors, Government, Local Government, State Government, Legal Writing, Trials & Litigation, Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, States, Georgia,
A Georgia prosecutor who repeatedly filed documents with artificial intelligence-generated citations that referenced cases that were wrong or fictitious during a murder trial has been…
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Perkins Coie is using generative artificial intelligence to train its lawyers on soft skills. The law firm’s London office is partnering with AI training platform…
Career & Practice, Ethics, Practice Management, Law Firms, Large Firm, Corporate Law, Trade Regulation, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Prosecutors, Government, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Trials & Litigation, States, Massachusetts,
BigLaw lawyers provided tips on scores of mergers as part of an insider trading ring involving tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits, according…
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Chief Justice John Roberts told attendees of a judicial conference Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court often must issue “unpopular” opinions, as the high court…
Career & Practice, Ethics, Lawyer Discipline, Criminal Justice, Criminal Procedure, Government, Federal Government, Public Interest, Civil Rights, Immigration Law, States, Rhode Island,
After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently criticized a federal judge in Rhode Island for releasing a man described as a “violent criminal illegal…
Career & Practice, Ethics, Criminal Justice, Government, Local Government, Judiciary, States, Texas,
A Texas justice of the peace is under investigation after having a verbal exchange with several teenagers inside a 24-hour burger restaurant that later allegedly…
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The State Bar of California is proposing for the first time to change California’s Rules of Professional Conduct to address the use of artificial intelligence.…
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The U.S. Department of Justice, faced with a lawyer staffing crisis after mass departures and firings, is trying to recruit legal talent and prevent current…
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The legal battle between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni concluded uncharacteristically without drama, as the litigants reached a settlement Monday following months of allegations…
Career & Practice, Careers, Practice Management, Layoffs, Government, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Employees, Employers,
Lawyers at the U.S. Department of Justice have had to repeatedly ask for delays in a variety of cases, inadvertently revealing that the department faces…
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Mary Shen O’Carroll has been named the new CEO of the LegalEng Consulting Group, a boutique legal consulting and services company based in San Francisco.…
ABA Journal, Environmental Law, Animal Law, States, California, Inter Alia,
In the latest knuckle down on cat declawing, California this year joins five other states and Washington, D.C., in banning the surgical procedure for nonmedical…
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Life in a women’s prison definitely has its downside in a popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black. But the reality is much worse,…