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Midyear Meeting

Loan counseling and cross-cultural competency programing will be required from ABA-accredited law schools

Midyear Meeting

Preventive action is needed to reduce youth homelessness

Midyear Meeting

Lactation stations and breastfeeding accommodations are needed for bar exam attendees

Bankruptcy Law

2021 was one of the worst years in decades for BigLaw bankruptcy practices

Lawyer Pay

What will Cravath and Davis Polk do? Many law firms await more news on salary hikes

Litigation Management

A litigation finance stock market? This law firm plans to launch one

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Biden describes 4 potential SCOTUS nominees; US liable for over $230M in church shooting

Supreme Court Nominations

Should reversal rates for potential SCOTUS nominees matter? They are relatively low for these judges

Ethics

Lieff Cabraser loses appeal of sanction for ‘materially misleading’ description of fee study

Legal Education

Scammers use law school name in check-fraud ruse

Judiciary

5th Circuit judge resigns to focus on trial work as an attorney

Labor & Employment

Congress passes bill banning forced arbitration of harassment and sexual assault claims

Criminal Justice

Critics decry long sentence for BLM activist who says she didn’t know her voter registration was illegal

Supreme Court Nominations

Judge on SCOTUS short list faces scrutiny for her stance for US in religious rights case

Supreme Court Report

Breyer’s befuddling hypotheticals reverberate through the halls of SCOTUS

ABA Abroad

The ABA is working to help Afghan refugees, and so can you

Judiciary

Sotomayor: Threat to judicial independence is unprecedented as judicial philosophies are politicized

Judiciary

Town justice resigns after he is accused of encouraging minor to have sex with his son

Judiciary

Appeals court says judge may be ‘in the wrong line of work,’ vacates sentence for a second time

Bankruptcy Law

Lawyer can’t erase costs of disciplinary proceedings in bankruptcy, 7th Circuit rules

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