An Illinois lawyer who created phony documents to lower his capital contribution to his law firm should be suspended for five months, an Illinois review board has found.

A law firm scammed out of nearly $84,000 in a scheme involving a fake client and a bad check can proceed with two of its four lawsuit claims against Wells Fargo, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Parental alienation happens when one parent engages in behaviors that cause a child to reject the other parent for no legitimate reason. It can become the subject of fierce debate in high-conflict divorce cases when one parent claims the other parent intentionally turned a child against him or her.

The ABA Journal asked 25 lawyers what they wish they’d learned, as well as the best advice that they got in law school and whether school had prepared them for practice.

Art Lien retired at the end of that 2021-22 term after 45 years of sketching the U.S. Supreme Court. “I turned 70, have no debts and my eyesight isn’t getting any better,” Lien says. “It was time.”

With dozens of state legislatures holding their first sessions of the post-Roe v. Wade era, some firms are proactively counseling clients on the highly complex, politically charged and quickly shifting landscape surrounding employee benefits and abortion laws. In doing so, attorneys have to consider real and hypothetical civil and criminal liabilities.

Several legal fights have pitted family members of an artist who died without a will against parties accused of commercially exploiting the artist’s work. Collectors or entrepreneurs who have obtained an artist’s physical work may then be tempted to try to profit from its underlying intellectual property, but they are different things.

For first-time advocates before the U.S. Supreme Court, it can come as a shock when they realize how close they are to the justices—so close some are just out of their sight line. In the words of Supreme Court veteran Neal Katyal, Chief Justice John Roberts “sees everything—he sees you sweat.”