As the Missouri Department of Correction was finalizing Christopher Dunn’s release papers Wednesday, the warden got the call. The state Supreme Court had halted the release order after the state attorney general appealed to keep him in prison.
U.S. Supreme Court justices should be subject to term limits and a binding ethics code, President Joe Biden has said in an op-ed for the Washington Post.
As more and more law firms experiment with artificial intelligence, the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility released an opinion Monday guiding the legal profession through some of its obstacles. Specifically, it is warning lawyers to consider their ethical obligations when operating AI.
Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday that she would support the creation of a committee of judges to examine potential violations of the Supreme Court’s new ethics code, speaking out on a contentious subject as President Biden and others are increasingly calling for reform at the high court.
Some legal observers believe, only partly in jest, that the court is slowly inching back to its seriatim days. The justices seem to be writing a lot of concurrences.
The study from the National Association for Law Placement and the NALP Foundation, released Wednesday, showed 70% of all graduates have held two or more jobs in the three years since graduation, up from 69% of the class of 2019 surveyed a year earlier.
The typically slow-moving wheels of bar exam reform have sped up in the past few months, creating a pileup of changes that some experts say makes this a key moment for the venerated-yet-dreaded licensing exam.
Michigan is the latest state to ban the “gay and trans panic” criminal defense. The American Bar Association has long called for legislative action to “curtail the availability and effectiveness” of the defense, saying that “successful gay and trans panic defenses constitute a miscarriage of justice.”
A business executive and philanthropist has pledged $30 million to launch a first-of-its-kind center pushing to overhaul the Supreme Court, after several ethics controversies and conservative rulings prompted rising scrutiny of the justices.
