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CS Disco announces partnership with vLex to use law library in case management software

Legal technology company CS Disco has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with vLex company Fastcase to use the company’s large law library for “end-to-end” software for the practice of law.



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Keramet Reiter helps build in-prison education programs in California

Keramet Reiter has spent countless hours inside prisons, working with individuals who are incarcerated and studying the impact of prison and punishment policies on them, their communities and the legal system. As part of her work, Reiter has focused on expanding access to in-prison education programs.



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Oregon approves alternative to bar exam

Starting in 2024, law graduates aiming to practice in Oregon can skip the bar exam and instead follow an alternative pathway to licensure.



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Family members who step in to care for children can get extra support with ABA guidance

In late September, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families published a rule urging child welfare agencies to develop different standards for grandparents, aunts and uncles or other kinship caregivers who step in to raise children who can no longer live with their parents. The ABA Center on Children and the Law is now working to assist these states.



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Christian student will receive $150K in suit alleging school meditation program included Hindu ritual

A former public school student who alleged that she was coerced to participate in a school meditation ritual that violated her Christian religious beliefs has accepted a $150,000 offer of judgment from the Chicago Board of Education and the foundation that developed the program.



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Lawyer hiring slows as firms strive for greater profits, according to Thomson Reuters report

Law firms eased up on hiring first-year associates in the third quarter to curtail expense growth, according to a new Thomson Reuters report published Monday.



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Legal profession needs to support Native American female lawyers, new ABA report shows

Native American female lawyers often feel isolated and exhausted, and they have endured pervasive bias and harassment, according to a new report published by the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession and the National Native American Bar Association on Thursday.



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Deb Haaland, other Native American 'first trailblazers' discuss importance of being at the table

“We are breaking down barriers, so our communities have the representation they deserve everywhere—in statehouses, in Congress, in classrooms, in film, science, and right here, with the American Bar Association,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in her remarks.



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BigLaw firms ask law school deans to respond to antisemitism in campus protests

Updated: Deans of the nation’s top law schools received a letter on Wednesday signed by 24 major law firms, encouraging them to condemn the anti-Israel protests and harassment flaring up on campuses.



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Supreme Court takes on first major gun case since landmark ruling last year softened regulations

On Nov. 7, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in United States v. Rahimi, its first gun case since the landmark New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen decision.



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