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Legal Rebels Podcast

How a law prof is training paraprofessionals to represent immigrants in legal proceedings

Legal Education

Are remote learning and burnout to blame for declining bar pass rates?

Law in Popular Culture

Viewers see pretrial process and mock trial in lawyer’s new show

Criminal Justice

District attorney pleads guilty to offering payments to his prosecutors, seeking to influence officer

Fourth Amendment

Officer who shot service dogs not entitled to qualified immunity, 8th Circuit says

Careers

Defense lawyer who objected to preachers in Ahmaud Arbery case seems to thrive on provocation

Death Penalty

Supreme Court grows ‘increasingly hostile’ to inmates seeking to delay executions

Trials & LItigation

Do face coverings help or hinder defendants?

Law Firms

Some law firms are promoting record numbers of associates to partnership

Judiciary

Court lottery will determine which federal appeals court hears vaccine challenges

Law Firms

Top 50 law firms are ‘cannibalizing’ an increasing share of legal revenue

Trials & Litigation

Former ‘The Apprentice’ contestant drops defamation suit against Trump with no compensation

Contract Attorneys

‘Treated like a robot,’ contract lawyers chafe under fickle facial recognition surveillance

Trials & Litigation

Doctor accused of showing his gun during Zoom court faces contempt hearing

Mind Your Business

Can your law firm afford not to redesign its website?

News Roundup

Weekly Briefs: Steven Bannon indicted for contempt of Congress; DC Circuit gives Trump initial records victory

First Amendment

Law profs seek to overturn New York law requiring their ethics complaints to be secret

Privacy Law

Leaked helicopter footage from police shows close-ups of sunbathers, infrared look inside buildings

Trials & Litigation

In ‘rocky prosecution’ of Kyle Rittenhouse, assistant DA angers judge, tackles difficult case

Death Penalty

Executioner was convinced he would be condemned to hell; others also suffer long-term effects

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