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‘Hot-tubbing’ and ‘coffee badging’ among top 2024 words in law

Top words in law for 2024 include catchy ways to describe minimal workplace attendance and expert-witness conferences, according to the list recently unveiled by Burton’s Legal Thesaurus.

Dec 18, 2024 8:47 AM CST

Has constitutional-convention threshold already been met? It happened in 1979, GOP lawmaker says

The 34-state threshold for calling a constitutional convention has already been reached, if the U.S. Constitution’s Article V counts any state request for a convention, no matter what the topic, according to a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Dec 17, 2024 2:15 PM CST

Slight rankings drop at University of Florida and its law school may have been factor in president’s exit

Former University of Florida President Ben Sasse cited his wife’s health when he resigned his position in July, only 17 months into the job that paid $10 million over five years.

Nov 25, 2024 9:46 AM CST

We should focus on—and invest in—AI that serves people without lawyers

We’ve all seen the headlines about AI-boosted lawyers run amok. Since ChatGPT landed, phantom cases have cropped up in court filings around the country. Judges have responded, meting out sanctions, excoriating counsel, and—more recently—even issuing a flurry of new orders and rules that regulate how litigants can use new AI-based technologies.

Nov 21, 2024 2:17 PM CST

St. Thomas College of Law and fired professor reach settlement

The St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law and a professor at the school have “agreed to amicably part ways,” according to a statement from the Florida-based law school to the ABA Journal.

Nov 12, 2024 10:51 AM CST

Sanction against Northwestern law prof affirmed by 10th Circuit

A federal appeals court has affirmed a $5,000 sanction against a professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law for seeking to remove a state court motion to federal court, finding no abuse of discretion by a federal judge who imposed it.

Oct 31, 2024 2:45 PM CDT

Don’t give money to law schools unless they teach originalism, conservative federal appeals judge says

“Anti-originalist” law professors dominate law schools, and they aren’t equipping students with the practical knowledge that they need to make originalist arguments, a conservative federal appeals judge said last week in a lecture hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Oct 29, 2024 12:17 PM CDT

‘The Calculator Mistake’: Denial, hostility won’t help lawyers deal with emergence of AI

My high school trigonometry teacher was, by his own admission, “old school.” He didn’t allow us to use calculators. Ever. Instead, all decimals had to be divided by hand, all formulas known by memory, and all square roots worked out on paper. We were unlikely to walk around with calculators when we got older, he explained, and so we had to be able to work things out with only a pencil and our brain.

Oct 23, 2024 2:00 PM CDT

Columbia law prof facing probe over campus-protest comments says firm ‘abruptly’ dropped her as client

A Columbia Law School professor has said in an ethics complaint a law firm “abandoned” her as a client during a probe of her comments about campus protests “with no notice and no explanation."

Oct 22, 2024 3:50 PM CDT

Will diversity policy affect hiring of independent monitor in Boeing case? Federal judge wants to know

A federal judge considering a proposed plea agreement between Boeing and the U.S. Department of Justice wants to know how diversity, equity and inclusion policies will influence the selection of a monitor to assess compliance.

Oct 17, 2024 11:11 AM CDT

Law professor Jonathan Turley discusses free speech at ABA Crossroads Caucus event

In a scoop any journalist would envy, the ABA Crossroads Caucus welcomed professor Jonathan Turley to the first-ever public event to discuss his new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, just ahead of its planned release by Simon & Schuster. The program, held Aug. 3 at the ABA Annual Meeting, drew a broad audience, including then-ABA President Mary Smith, past ABA President Deborah Enix-Ross, numerous members of the ABA Board of Governors and at least one retired judge.

Oct 9, 2024 10:23 AM CDT

‘Hot-tubbing’ and ‘coffee badging’ among top 2024 words in law

Has constitutional-convention threshold already been met? It happened in 1979, GOP lawmaker says

Slight rankings drop at University of Florida and its law school may have been factor in president’s exit

We should focus on—and invest in—AI that serves people without lawyers

St. Thomas College of Law and fired professor reach settlement

Sanction against Northwestern law prof affirmed by 10th Circuit

Don’t give money to law schools unless they teach originalism, conservative federal appeals judge says

‘The Calculator Mistake’: Denial, hostility won’t help lawyers deal with emergence of AI

Columbia law prof facing probe over campus-protest comments says firm ‘abruptly’ dropped her as client

Will diversity policy affect hiring of independent monitor in Boeing case? Federal judge wants to know

Law professor Jonathan Turley discusses free speech at ABA Crossroads Caucus event

Supreme Court is ‘dour and diligent’ as it debates ‘potential sleeper case;’ are arguments ‘abusive’?

MacArthur ‘genius grants’ fellows include law prof, domestic violence researcher

Penn Law prof gets half-pay suspension for ‘discriminatory and disparaging statements’

Teen shooters and their parents’ responsibilities examined in Fox’s ‘Accused’

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