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Practice Management

What does it mean for a lawyer to retire?

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: More people apply to law school; gun-pointing lawyers pardoned

Education Law

Student loan forbearance extended again as nominations sought for rule-making committee on discharges and forgiveness

Prosecutors

GOP-linked group targets 3 progressive Virginia prosecutors deemed soft on crime

Ethics

Top Florida court reprimands ‘Pitbull Lawyer’ for advertising campaign

Judiciary

Federal appeals judge criticizes disparate-impact theory; are his opinions op-ed columns?

Evidence

Judge scrutinizes BigLaw firm in ruling on evidence from blood-testing company Theranos that may be ‘irretrievably’ lost

Judiciary

Biden nominates first openly LGBTQ woman to a federal appeals court

Bar Exam

Technical problems again plague remote bar examinees, who blame software provider

Bankruptcy Law

Bipartisan bill would make it easier to discharge federal student loans in bankruptcy after waiting period

Constitutional Law

Ban on topless women doesn’t violate equal protection clause, 4th Circuit says; concurrence questions precedent

Annual Meeting

Meet the 2021 Margaret Brent Award honorees

Careers

After his last firm dissolved, lawyer reinvents himself as conservative civil liberties warrior

Trials & Litigation

Federal magistrate judge sanctions lawyers for election suit that was ‘one enormous conspiracy theory’

Law Schools

This law school had the widest gap between student debt and graduate earnings

Immigration Law

ACLU intends to pursue suit after Biden administration continues expelling those arriving illegally

Annual Meeting

ABA Hybrid Annual Meeting convenes members online and in Chicago

Criminal Justice

New Jersey man gets prison time for posting federal judge’s home address on Twitter and Facebook

Labor & Employment

Investigators conclude Cuomo sexually harassed women; ‘the typical rules did not apply,’ says one employee

Constitutional Law

7th Circuit sees no constitutional problem with Indiana University’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements

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