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Legal Rebels Profile

Change-Maker: Rodrigo Camarena is building tools to help immigrants become citizens and combat wage theft

Legal Rebels Profile

Blazing a Trail: Oregon is moving away from the traditional bar exam and embracing supervised practice

Legal Rebels Profile

Swift Justice: Roy Ferguson has always been interested in increasing judicial expediency and efficiency

Legal Rebels Profile

Helping Hand: Swapna Reddy is helping asylum-seekers navigate the immigration system

Legal Rebels Profile

Examining the Future: Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt are spearheading efforts to reinvent attorney licensing

Legal Rebels Profile

Finding Her Way: Jacqueline Schafer has long seen the potential of AI to help lawyers work more efficiently

Legal Rebels Profile

Clearing Obstacles: Noella Sudbury is helping people expunge their criminal records

Prosecutors

Interim US attorney conducts late-Friday firings of more than two dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors

Federal Government

Government attorneys are scrambling to leave the federal workforce

Juries

Judge questions no-show jurors after deputies round them up; are junk mail, declining respect to blame?

Immigration Law

Behind the scenes as the ABA reacts to DOJ’s order to stop providing legal support to immigrants

Law Firms

This BigLaw firm will represent Trump in appeal of hush-money conviction

Labor & Employment

Trump’s firing of NLRB member could lead to reconsideration of 1935 Supreme Court precedent

Criminal Justice

Indicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein can’t switch collateral, magistrate judge rules

Criminal Justice

Push by Corrections Committee leads to ABA opposing investments in private prisons

Diversity

Diversity Lab changes online descriptions to emphasize fairness, avoid misconceptions

Federal Government

Trump White House rescinds memo on freezing federal grants, reversing course

Law Firms

KPMG’s bid to deliver legal services delayed as top Arizona court seeks more information

U.S. Supreme Court

Chemerinsky: SCOTUS failed to address whether Chinese access to TikTok data is real national security threat

Law Firms

‘Very strong performance’ reported for law firms in 2024, with revenue increasing 12.5%

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