Law students hoping to land a coveted law firm spot post-graduation are facing a changing job market. The traditional summer associate role is no longer a direct route to a job. Instead, law firms are finding new recruiting strategies.
During business hours, Adelaide Beeman-White, 27, dons what she describes as her “costume”: a dark suit, collared shirt, pearls and Mary Jane shoes, which she wears to work as a criminal defense lawyer. But as soon as she steps out of her Prius and into the Oregon home she shares with her mother, Beeman-White transforms into what she feels is her true identity: A woman living between 1893 and 1898.
President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring federal agencies to submit plans for “large-scale” workforce reductions can take effect, for now, as a result of a decision Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
When using peremptory challenges, lawyers should not strike jurors based on discrimination, according to an ethics opinion by the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
A new legal service designed to help New York City renters recover their security deposits launched Friday.
A federal judge in Miami has tossed dueling defamation claims stemming from a dispute over condo repairs in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that involve a New York federal judge.
The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will take up a pair of cases next term dealing with the contentious issue of transgender athletes competing in school sports.
A federal court jury in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case rejected the government’s theory that he ran a criminal enterprise that helped him carry out serious crimes including sex trafficking and drug distribution. “Even reading the indictment, it did seem like a stretch to charge Combs with the RICO statute,” said Anna Cominsky, who heads New York Law School’s Criminal Defense Clinic.
A former part-time prosecutor convicted for secretly recording intimate images of two lovers, including a woman he prosecuted, has been disbarred.
Clio has purchased Spanish startup vLex for a whopping $1 billion. The combination of the Canadian software company Clio and vLex, a legal intelligence and global research platform, was announced Monday.
