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Career & Practice

2023 ‘Profile of the Legal Profession’ report spotlights the scarcity of legal aid lawyers

Lawyer Pay

Associate pay hikes gather steam after Cravath announcement; which law firms have matched?

International Law

ABA withdraws 2 online statements on Israel-Hamas war

Real Estate & Property Law

Less-expensive transfer on death instruments become more popular in Chicago

Law Students

Minority law school applicants lean on personal statements post-Harvard decision

Supreme Court Report

Supreme Court considers whether police officer’s job transfer was sex discrimination under Civil Rights Act

Law in Popular Culture

Miss Manners has this suggestion for responding to lawyer insults

Ethics

Lawyer’s Pringles poop prank in parking lot of victims advocacy center leads to suspension

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

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