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Prosecutors

Massachusetts US attorney will resign; probe finds ‘extraordinary breach of public trust’

Privacy Law

Techniques to recover environmental DNA are ‘like catnip’ for law enforcement, law prof says

The Modern Law Library

‘The Shadow Docket’ shines light on an increasingly uncommunicative Supreme Court

Legal Rebels Podcast

Pre/Dicta takes a radically different approach to predictive analytics than others

Legal Education

Gender, race and finances for law school admittees examined in new report

U.S. Supreme Court

So far this term, Supreme Court opinions aren’t splitting strictly along ideological lines

Trials & Litigation

Suit accuses Rudy Giuliani of sexually assaulting employee, promising—but not paying—$1M salary

Civil Rights

Is qualified immunity based on scrivener’s error? Law review article makes case

Environmental Law

Seattle settles case involving ‘rights of nature,’ a theory gaining steam in other countries

Trials & Litigation

Why lawyers in Young Slime Life trial got a free lunch from strip club

Constitutional Law

States seeking greater reach for their abortion laws may turn to Supreme Court’s pig-welfare decision

U.S. Supreme Court

Did court fail to ‘disentangle race from politics’ when it overturned voting map? SCOTUS to decide

Law in Popular Culture

ABA Journal named Magazine of the Year by business publication editors

U.S. Supreme Court

Can US lawmakers sue for information on Old Post Office lease to Trump company? SCOTUS to decide

Sentencing/Post-Conviction

Oregon’s former top administrative judge gets prison time in child pornography case

Career & Practice

How lawyers can embrace their inner ‘chicken’

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Infowars host Alex Jones’ lawyer appeals $97K sanction; judge removed for sexual comments

Legal Education

Plans for cutting admissions test requirement paused by ABA Legal Ed council

U.S. Supreme Court

Wins for 2 corruption defendants show Supreme Court’s distaste for broad interpretations of fraud laws

White Collar Crime

2 ‘Varsity Blues’ convictions overturned, partly based on faulty honest-services fraud theory

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