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Law Firms

Law firms ‘flush with cash’ are hiring larger lateral groups

Criminal Justice

Former lawyer who is accused of faking settlement allegedly forged signature of BigLaw partner

Constitutional Law

Can Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene be banned from reelection? 14th Amendment at issue

Practice Management

How to communicate better with your clients

Ethics

New law allows this state’s judges to personally solicit campaign donations; ethics opinion adds wrinkle

Discovery

Google’s ‘privileged’ email labeling, said to prevent lawsuit disclosure, was ‘eyebrow raising,’ judge says

Legal Education

Following a boost in 2021, national average score for February 2022 MBE drops

Law Firms

Law firm’s managing partner had a ‘fixation’ with employee surveillance, wiretap suit says

Trials & Litigation

5th Circuit tells lawyer it is ‘often advisable to read the court’s orders,’ upholds $1,250 sanction

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Kirkland tops $6B in revenue; another Pop-Tarts suit is tossed

U.S. Supreme Court

‘I am the dream and the hope of the slave’: Ketanji Brown Jackson sees promise in historic confirmation

COVID-19

5th Circuit revives Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal workers over jurisdictional issue

Criminal Justice

Man who failed to obtain restraining order against nephew is accused of shooting him outside courthouse

Evidence

New York attorney general asks court to hold Trump in civil contempt, fine him $10K per day

U.S. Supreme Court

With 53-47 confirmation vote, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will become first Black woman on Supreme Court

Judiciary

5th Circuit tosses federal judge from sixth case after he ‘candidly revealed’ disdain for antitrust law

Judiciary

Vaccine refusal leads New York courts to fire 103 workers, ban 4 judges from courthouses

Law in Popular Culture

HBO’s ‘Life of Crime’ and a career defending the same

Judiciary

Former judge faces prison time after pleading guilty to sexual assault of 2 court employees

U.S. Supreme Court

Barrett, Sotomayor comment on judging (the aim isn’t a policy result) and collegiality

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