The new Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States has five canons that address issues such as recusal, permissible extrajudicial activities and limits on outside income. In many ways, it resembles the code governing lower-court judges.
The film Killers of the Flower Moon “underscores the critical importance of the rule of law and the pursuit of justice,” said ABA President Mary Smith, who interviewed director Martin Scorsese and Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear of the Osage Nation in the latest installment of the ABA Presidential Speaker Series.
Thomson Reuters announced Wednesday several new generative artificial intelligence products to aid in legal research while promising additional tools in 2024.
Updated: A federal appeals court has ruled for a Louisiana lawyer who alleged that the mandatory state bar association violated his First Amendment rights by spending dues money on speech that is not germane to regulating lawyers or improving legal services.
Andrew D. Purcell, who was disbarred in Missouri in October and has been assigned a case number by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, learned the hard way that lawyers can get into trouble when they claim to be in two places at the same time.
Three software crashes and annoying habits of proctors didn’t entitle a law grad taking the bar exam to damages for reduced accommodations, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled.
The national mean scaled score for the Multistate Bar Exam for July 2023 is 140.5, up 0.2 points from a year earlier, according to the National Conference of Board Examiners. In addition, more people took the exam: There were 45,968 test-takers nationally, up 2.8% from July 2022, according to a news release.
Legal technology company CS Disco has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with vLex company Fastcase to use the company’s large law library for “end-to-end” software for the practice of law.
Keramet Reiter has spent countless hours inside prisons, working with individuals who are incarcerated and studying the impact of prison and punishment policies on them, their communities and the legal system. As part of her work, Reiter has focused on expanding access to in-prison education programs.
Starting in 2024, law graduates aiming to practice in Oregon can skip the bar exam and instead follow an alternative pathway to licensure.