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Legal Rebels Profile

Developing an Identity: Zachariah DeMeola created a holistic way for law students to find where they fit into the profession

Legal Rebels Profile

Data Broker: Josh Blandi’s platform gives firms and businesses real-time access to court records and analytics 

Legal Rebels Profile

On Demand: Stacy Butler channels passion for legal innovation into i4J incubator

Ethics

Appeals judge should be removed for using client and campaign account as a ‘personal ATM,’ ethics panel says

Law Firms

Why is Shearman & Sterling reportedly looking for a merger partner?

Members Who Inspire

After ALS diagnosis, Brian Wallach fights for a cure: ‘This is our closing argument for our lives’

Bankruptcy Law

3rd Circuit tosses talc defendant’s ‘Texas two-step’ bankruptcy

Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

ChatGPT is asked 50 questions about Supreme Court; it got only 21 questions right

Law Firms

Alternative legal services providers hit $20.6B share of legal market, new report says

Trials & Litigation

Federal judge bans potentially inflammatory words, such as ‘yahoos’ and ‘fake news’

Law Firms

Citing show-cause order against Reed Smith partner, judge allows firm to withdraw from case

Criminal Justice

Judicial discretion should be upheld in case involving sentencing standards, ABA says in amicus brief

Law Professors

Law prof curses student on hot mic after she asks him to slow down his lectures

Criminal Justice

Amid internal ethics disputes, special counsel probe into origins of Russia investigation finds no deep-state plot

Criminal Justice

More than a quarter of Louisiana prisoners have been held past their release dates since 2012, DOJ says

Criminal Justice

Ex-Pryor Cashman associate with 3 foster children gets prison time in Molotov cocktail attack

Asked and Answered

After seeing attitude shifts about opiate addiction, MDL lawyer targets Facebook

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Suit claims janitor infected water bottles with STD; Ohio allows ex-jailhouse lawyer to take bar

Ethics

Law prof Eastman’s false statements about election helped provoke Capitol rioters, ethics charges say

Law Firms

Husch Blackwell told to pay $62M for engineering firm’s loss in airport bidding process

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