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Legal Education

Cash-strapped California bar weighs cutting ties with NCBE, teaming with Kaplan on test-writing

The Modern Law Library

When states’ rights and health care access clash

Ethics

Legal community ‘bamboozled’ by woman who allegedly posed as attorney for years

Paralegals

Should paralegals fear artificial intelligence?

Court Security

When Trump criticizes judges online, calls for violence follow, analysis shows

Judiciary

Judge used N-word when questioning whether prosecutors were too aggressive, transcript shows

Practice Management

Proposal to impose nation’s most restrictive cap on contingency fees may appear on ballot, judge rules

Criminal Justice

Former BigLaw partner failed to pay taxes on about $3.4M in income, plea agreement says

Prosecutors

Prosecutors excluded Jewish people from juries in one California county for decades, review suggests

Obituaries

Clinical law prof who worked for social justice killed in triple murder

Election Law

Justice Department warns against threats to voting rights, election workers

LGBTQ Legal Issues

Employer health plan’s exclusion for gender-affirming care violates Title VII, 11th Circuit rules

Law Firms

Suit accuses BigLaw partner of ‘regurgitating’ claims of con artist who claimed to be CIA agent

Law Students

‘If you want to activate your brain, try going to law school,’ says retiree who graduated with son

Legal Education

Bar exam alternatives on docket of ABA Legal Ed council

What’s on the Shelf?

Lawyer’s true-crime book explores how he defended a neurodivergent client charged with murder

Second Amendment

Ban on gun possession by felons is unconstitutional as applied to some offenders, 9th Circuit rules

Diversity

Straight, white female alleges BigLaw firm’s job ad for diversity program violated Title VII

Corporate Law

Federal judge halts new US rules limiting credit card late fees

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Clarence Thomas calls criticism of him ‘nastiness’ and ‘lies’

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