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ABA President Bay denounces 'chaotic' attacks on the rule of law

ABA President Bill Bay has condemned the Trump administration’s extensive attacks on the rule of law. The association announced Tuesday it has joined two legal challenges to the funding freezes on USAID and federally funded immigration programs.



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Benefits of hybrid work examined in new study, while firms’ quest to bring lawyers back to office continues

Adding a wrinkle to the debate over remote work is new research suggesting that hybrid schedules can increase productivity. In a study published in June, employees who work from home for two days per week were found to be just as productive and as likely to be promoted as their in-person colleagues. In addition, employees with hybrid schedules were less likely to quit.



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Lights, Camera, Contracts: The harsh legal reality of reality television

The main legal need surrounding reality show participants concerns their employment status—or lack thereof. Reality show participants are treated as independent contractors, which technically lets networks and productions evade many of the labor laws that protect employees.



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This lawyer-turned-matchmaker can help 'cut through the noise' in dating app world

Have you been looking for love in all the wrong places? If you want lawyer-turned-matchmaker Danny Goldstein to help turn around your love life, he’ll try. “I’ve found that matchmaking is a helpful antidote to the problems in current dating culture,” says Goldstein, owner of Crux Compatible, a matchmaking service in Austin, Texas.



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Gender equity questions arise with college athletes’ name, image and likeness agreements

“A lot of schools have considered bringing [third-party] NIL collectives in-house, but they may want to think again,” says Robert Boland, a professor at the Seton Hall University School of Law who previously was an athletics integrity officer at the Pennsylvania State University.



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On first day as AG, Bondi demands 'zealous advocacy' of Trump's agenda

Pam Bondi was sworn in as the nation’s 87th attorney general Wednesday, inheriting a Justice Department roiled by Attorney General Pam Bondi spent her first day on the job Wednesday redirecting the Justice Department’s significant law enforcement authority toward addressing President Donald Trump’s grievances with the agency, making her allegiance to his agenda clear in a series of strongly worded directives.



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5th Circuit overrules itself, finds law banning handgun sales to adults younger than age 21 unconstitutional

After reexamining its precedent, a federal appeals court has ruled that a federal ban on handgun sales to youths ages 18 to 20 violates the Second Amendment.



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House asserts bar associations' First Amendment rights, says AG's Honors Program should be reinstated

The House also called for changes in President Donald Trump’s Jan. 21 executive order that encouraged the government and private sector to end “illegal preferences and discrimination.”



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Should lawyers get billable-hour credit for time off? It should be encouraged, ABA House says, but not before debate

What can make the ABA House of Delegates have an hourlong lively debate? Apparently, it’s a resolution aimed at helping ease lawyer stress and achieve a better work-life balance.



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Protect domestic violence survivors by protecting their pets, ABA House says

At the ABA Midyear Meeting in Phoenix on Monday, the ABA House of Delegates considered how to best meet the needs of pet owners in family law and civil protection order proceedings.



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