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Supreme Court Nominations

Should reversal rates for potential SCOTUS nominees matter? They are relatively low for these judges

Ethics

Lieff Cabraser loses appeal of sanction for ‘materially misleading’ description of fee study

Legal Education

Scammers use law school name in check-fraud ruse

Judiciary

5th Circuit judge resigns to focus on trial work as an attorney

Labor & Employment

Congress passes bill banning forced arbitration of harassment and sexual assault claims

Criminal Justice

Critics decry long sentence for BLM activist who says she didn’t know her voter registration was illegal

Supreme Court Nominations

Judge on SCOTUS short list faces scrutiny for her stance for US in religious rights case

Supreme Court Report

Breyer’s befuddling hypotheticals reverberate through the halls of SCOTUS

ABA Abroad

The ABA is working to help Afghan refugees, and so can you

Judiciary

Sotomayor: Threat to judicial independence is unprecedented as judicial philosophies are politicized

Judiciary

Town justice resigns after he is accused of encouraging minor to have sex with his son

Judiciary

Appeals court says judge may be ‘in the wrong line of work,’ vacates sentence for a second time

Bankruptcy Law

Lawyer can’t erase costs of disciplinary proceedings in bankruptcy, 7th Circuit rules

Privacy Law

Can undercover cops use Snapchat content for prosecution? It depends, top state court rules

Access to Justice

ABE supports 12 ‘new and critical initiatives’ through annual grant program

Ethics

St. Louis lawyers who brandished guns at protesters can continue to practice law

The Modern Law Library

Regulate cryptocurrencies and fintech products before it’s too late, urges author

Law Schools

Which law schools overperformed on the bar exam? Some are unranked by US News

Careers

Legal employment has broken pre-pandemic records, revised figures show

Ethics

Arizona attorney general reaches ethics deal involving clashes with secretary of state in election suits

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