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Legislation & Lobbying

Meet Holly Cook, director of the ABA Governmental Affairs Office

ABA Techshow

ABA Techshow 2023 will celebrate ‘being together’ after 3 tough years

Legal Education

Legal Ed will resubmit proposed elimination of admissions-test standard and consider increasing distance ed credits

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: SCOTUS nixes immigration arguments; decapitation defendant attacks her lawyer

Constitutional Law

Texas suit alleges federal spending bill isn’t law because of proxy quorum

Judiciary

US court system is facing delays, backlogs and workforce shortages, report says

Practice Technology

Meet Harvey, BigLaw firm’s artificial intelligence platform based on ChatGPT

Law Schools

Former Stanford law dean was among bond guarantors for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried

Law Professors

Court dismisses part of UIC law prof’s civil rights lawsuit

Ethics

Magistrate judge recommends ethics probe of Northwestern law prof, who sees ‘crock of nonsense’

Practice Management

Tools for legal professionals to work at higher level ‘are on the horizon,’ says software developer CEO

Mind Your Business

Humanizing the Process: A new approach to interviewing for law firms

Supreme Court Report

Tech giants fear SCOTUS cases could wreak havoc on the internet

Election Law

Some witnesses testifying before election-interference grand jury may have perjured themselves, report says

Arbitration

9th Circuit blocks California’s ban on forced arbitration agreements in workplace disputes

Sentencing/Post Conviction

Man who spent 28 years in prison is exonerated with help of pro bono lawyers

Judiciary

As Biden obtains confirmation of 100th federal judge, focus turns to red state vacancies

Tort Law

Federal judge rejects Trump’s quid-pro-quo DNA offer in suit by rape accuser

Criminal Justice

Heat-of-passion defense no longer available in slayings after infidelity disclosure, top state court says

Law Schools

Want to be a Supreme Court clerk? It helps to graduate from these law schools and colleges

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