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Legal Rebels Profile

Camila Lopez’s People Clerk gives small claims court litigants in California new options

Legal Rebels Profile

Building Bots: Tom Martin merged a love of law and technology to design custom legal chatbots

Law in Popular Culture

Can the true-crime genre help attorneys with their jury trials?

Ethics

This state allows a judge to summarily disbar lawyers; it recently happened in a divorce case

Obituaries

Miss USA 2019, a lawyer who worked for social justice, dies at age 30

Supreme Court Nominations

White House confirms potential Supreme Court nominee as the short list grows

Ethics

There’s no need to ‘act on every scrap of tittle-tattle,’ justice says in nude-pics ethics case

Asked and Answered

Control is often an issue in breakups, and COVID-19 made it worse, say 2 family law attorneys

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: SCOTUS will hear tribal, wetlands cases; a victory for University of Florida profs in free speech case

U.S. Supreme Court

Barrett is among 4 justices who would have blocked execution of inmate seeking death by nitrogen hypoxia

Supreme Court nominations

Georgetown Law dean blasts new hire for now-deleted tweets on future Biden SCOTUS nominee

U.S. Supreme Court

Breyer was ‘quintessential Enlightenment man in an increasingly unenlightened era,’ op-ed says

Law Firms

Goodwin Procter offers to pay for associates’ weeklong vacations

Report from Governmental Affairs

Significant advocacy successes for the ABA were achieved in the first session of 117th Congress

U.S. Supreme Court

Can the nation endure? Breyer waxes philosophical in retirement press conference; Biden sets timetable

Women in the Law

The word ‘he’ is ‘not the default universal personal pronoun,’ judge says

Legal Marketing & Consulting

Lawyer kicked off LinkedIn for alleged self-promotional posts loses appeal of consumer fraud case

Constitutional Law

DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel says its prior opinion on ERA doesn’t bar Congress from acting

U.S. Supreme Court

These 2 judges are considered front-runners to replace Breyer; who else is getting mentioned?

Bar Exam

Jurisdictions hope safety plans curb COVID-19 fears for in-person bar exam

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