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Practice Technology

Websites are law firms’ front doors; is yours open to clients?

Criminal Justice

Special counsel inquiry into origins of Russia probe appears to be nearing end

Careers

Honduran attorneys bring law-themed Latin coffee shop to Minnesota

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: ABA supports marriage equality law; Stanford offers new model for legal ed loans

LGBTQ Legal Issues

Montana defies judge’s order to allow transgender people to change birth certificates, at least for now

Judiciary

Meet Raymond Dearie, the judge picked to oversee Mar-a-Lago documents review

Judiciary

Federal magistrate judge isn’t reappointed amid probe into alleged abusive environment

Law in Popular Culture

‘Alternative suspects,’ unreliable evidence support new trial for Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’ podcast fame, prosecutors say

Criminal Justice

Sleeping in driver’s seat doesn’t support charge of driving while suspended, top state court rules

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to recognize LGBTQ student club as state court review continues

Careers

Michigan chief justice, seen as online court innovator, tapped to lead nonprofit organization

Ethics

Lawyer who exclaimed ‘gadzooks’ at trial delayed but didn’t disrupt justice, ethics hearing board says

U.S. Supreme Court

After Roberts defends SCOTUS, Kagan warns of judges creating ‘legitimacy problems for themselves’

Prosecutors

Federal judge orders district attorney to write apology letters to families of murder victims

Obituaries

Former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr dies at 76

Constitutional Law

Rape victim sues after police use her sexual-assault DNA to arrest her in unrelated crime

Legal Rebels Podcast

Legal Chatbots: What can and can’t they do?

Practice Management

Thomson Reuters releases new version of online legal research platform Westlaw

Education Law

Oberlin College will pay over $36M to bakery that alleged school aided false claim of racism

Legal Education

Scores for July MBE are similar to last year, NCBE says

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