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Law in Popular Culture

2022 Silver Gavels go to book by Anita Hill, documentary about trailblazer Pauli Murray

International Law

Is there a way back for international law firms in Russia?

Law Firms

How to develop and keep associates? BigLaw firm tries embedding career coaches

Corporate Law

California law requiring women on corporate boards is unconstitutional, judge rules

Mergers & Acquisitions

MyCase acquires immigration legal tech software Docketwise

Law Firms

LeClairRyan trustee agrees to $21M settlement with company accused of contributing to losses

Legal Rebels Podcast

EmotionTrac analyzes facial expressions in real time to help lawyers pick juries, market themselves

Legal Education

There’s modest improvement in law student perceptions of distance learning, new report finds

First Amendment

Federal judge blocks school from disciplining teacher if she outs transgender students to their parents

Sixth Amendment

Judge’s COVID-19 protocols violated defendant’s right to a public trial, 9th Circuit rules

Law Firms

Judge criticizes ‘nasty litigation tactics’ while sanctioning BigLaw firm

Judiciary

This federal appeals judge has hired only male law clerks, with one exception, since 1990, survey finds

Legal Education

Stanford Law announces elimination of tuition based on family income

Judiciary

New law toughens stock disclosure requirements for federal judges; separate ethics bill faces ‘steep climb’

U.S. Supreme Court

Gorsuch dissents with liberals when SCOTUS bars immigrant’s challenge to alleged factual error

Judiciary

Judge involved in White Castle fracas is suspended after arrest for alleged domestic battery

Law Firms

Law firm leaders are still mostly white and male, ABA diversity survey says

Mind Your Business

The Great Resignation: The toll taken on the legal field and what comes next

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in challenge to a campaign finance restriction

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Thomas: Leaked draft opinion on abortion is ‘like kind of an infidelity’

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