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Members Who Inspire

Helping others is at the center of Holly Dolejsi’s practice

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

How Fisher Phillips helped test and then implement Casetext’s CoCounsel into its practice

Bar Associations

DePaul University College of Law dean will lead ABA legal education starting next summer

Trials & Litigation

Ruling in double-spacing kerfuffle, federal judge observes lawyers don’t need ‘more words on a page’

U.S. Supreme Court

Chemerinsky: ‘Sleeper’ case before the Supreme Court could have major implications for administrative law

Lawyer Pay

Cravath finally announces associate raises, and they partly surpass Milbank scale

Cybersecurity

Cyberattack bedevils Kansas courts, requiring them to ‘go analog,’ while UK law firms grapple with vendor breach

Environmental Law

6th Circuit rejects huge class action filed against makers of ‘forever chemicals’

Legal Education

Judicial task force will take deep look at legal ed, bar admissions

First Amendment

Jewish inmate doesn’t have to show ‘substantial burden’ on religious beliefs to prevail on free exercise claim, 2nd Circuit says

U.S. Supreme Court

Arizona lawmakers who opposed depositions on tougher voting laws fail to win Supreme Court stay

Law Students

Campus politics playing bigger role in prelaw students’ law school considerations, survey says

Legal Theory

New legal group aims to ‘bring sanity back to conservative lawyering,’ oppose Trump’s ‘legal excesses’

Year in Review

2023 Year in Review: AI innovations and the quest for better legal billing

Second Amendment

Federal appeals court strikes down Maryland law requiring ‘handgun qualification license’

Cybersecurity

ABA seeks to toss suit over limited data breach, saying allegations based on ‘implausible assertion’

Criminal Justice

Lawyer sentenced for slapping another lawyer outside courthouse

Contracts

Trying to kill ex-husband with hatchet violates separation agreement’s covenant of good faith, state appeals court says

U.S. Supreme Court

Justice Thomas has ‘serious doubts’ about binding nature of mass-tort bellwether trials

Partners

Hybrid partnerships becoming more popular at law firms with pricey buy-ins

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