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Pro Bono

Wanted: Lawyers to help with this year’s election

Practice Technology

ILTACON 2024: Selling legal tech’s monorail

Ethics

Lawyer gets stayed suspension for fake blog comments

Cybersecurity

How to combat cybersecurity threats when using artificial intelligence

Practice Management

How midsize firms are achieving growth through adaptation

Ethics

Worried your legal work could contribute to clients’ criminal conduct? New ABA ethics opinion shares guidelines

Election Law

SCOTUS allows Arizona voter-registration law requiring proof of citizenship

Women in the Law

These firms are ‘ceiling smashers’ for having highest percentage of women in equity partnerships

Personal Lives

How an understanding court clerk saved lawyer with dementia from humiliation

Mergers & Acquisitions

Lathrop GPM will merge with Silicon Valley firm Oct. 1; ‘why wait?’ managing shareholder asks

Supreme Court Report

Give Us a Break: Supreme Court’s summer hiatus interrupted by emergency docket cases

Judiciary

Family sues judge who ordered teen to be handcuffed after she fell asleep

Criminal Justice

Ex-babysitter who hit infant 40 years ago pleads guilty to manslaughter in his 2019 death

Criminal Justice

Assistant pleads guilty to embezzling more than $50K from criminal court judge

Ethics

Judge reprimanded for false ‘elder abuse’ claim on Facebook in spat over guardianship case

Practice Management

Law firms on track for strong year, report says

Law Professors

Tenured professor sues St. Thomas College of Law after firing

Law Firms

Ex-lawyer Tom Girardi’s former CFO had escape plan and lavish spending habits, ex-fiancee testifies

Labor & Employment

Federal judge strikes down FTC rule banning noncompete agreements

Law Firms

Joining handful of competitors, BigLaw firm requires NYC office presence 4 days per week

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