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Report from Governmental Affairs

15 ABA advocacy wins of the 117th Congress

Ethics

Judge won’t sanction Texas lawyer for missteps after mistaken disclosure of info about Sandy Hook families

Law Firms

Despite ‘diligent efforts,’ Greenberg Traurig can’t find rapper Ye to inform him it’s dropping him

Law Professors

Law prof stirs controversy with tweet calling Scalia ‘basically a klansman’

Criminal Justice

Security officer shoots armed man outside federal courthouse

Practice Management

How to track and empower diversity and inclusion initiatives in the legal profession

Ethics

Lawyer faces ethics charges after his IT person accesses exiting employee’s personal emails

Juries

Potential juror for Young Thug trial ordered to write 30-page essay after skipping return to court

Legal Rebels Podcast

Should lawyers embrace or fear ChatGPT?

Criminal Justice

Ex-lawyer who claimed wrongs by ‘bar card lynch mob’ charged with stabbing targeted attorney

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court will hear case of convicted stalker to decide mental state needed for ‘true threats’ conviction

U.S. Supreme Court

Can the government seize property for unpaid taxes and keep the surplus after selling it? SCOTUS will decide

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court considers Title VII accommodation for Christian postal worker who wouldn’t work on Sundays

Health Law

6th Circuit bans enforcement of Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors against plaintiff states

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Man pleads guilty in cold-case murder of law librarian; near-total abortion ban upheld in Idaho

Prosecutors

Philadelphia DA wins challenge to his impeachment in appeals court

Judiciary

Judge accused of making homophobic and racist remarks agrees to resign for health reasons

Civil Procedure

Meet Robert Hur, the former Trump-era prosecutor who is special counsel in Biden documents probe

Ethics

Bankruptcy judge suspends lawyer for ‘bizarre gamesmanship,’ urging clients to infect trustee with ‘nasty disease’

Diversity

Diversity increases among associates, but ‘we are nowhere near’ expected progress at partner level, NALP president says

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