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Privacy Law

Can undercover cops use Snapchat content for prosecution? It depends, top state court rules

Access to Justice

ABE supports 12 ‘new and critical initiatives’ through annual grant program

Ethics

St. Louis lawyers who brandished guns at protesters can continue to practice law

The Modern Law Library

Regulate cryptocurrencies and fintech products before it’s too late, urges author

Law Schools

Which law schools overperformed on the bar exam? Some are unranked by US News

Careers

Legal employment has broken pre-pandemic records, revised figures show

Ethics

Arizona attorney general reaches ethics deal involving clashes with secretary of state in election suits

U.S. Supreme court

Roberts stays out of ‘shadow docket’ fray as he sides with 3 liberal SCOTUS justices on Alabama’s voting map

Ethics

Town justice should be removed for sexist Facebook posts, NRA fundraising, commission says

Ethics

Lawyer accused in Capitol riot continues to defend clients; state bar takes wait-and-see approach

Ethics

Lawyer is suspended for deposition threat to expose intimate photos of woman in court record

Criminal Justice

Manhattan DA walks back prosecution policies criticized as too lenient

Obituaries

‘Father of Miranda’ Yale Kamisar dies at 92

Law Professors

Chapman University says it didn’t authorize law prof’s representation of Trump, yet work was on server

Criminal Justice

Lawyer Michael Avenatti is convicted of stealing money from Stormy Daniels

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Appeals courts rule in lawyer restitution cases; tribes agree to opioid settlement

Ethics

Top state court questions ban on Maryland offices by out-of-state lawyers

Criminal Justice

8th Circuit refuses to toss suit over kettling said to sweep up innocent bystanders during protests

Trials & Litigation

Lawyer who led Human Rights Campaign sues for alleged racial discrimination

Careers

Olympic curler slides to corporate lawyer

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