Competing in pageants is not just sequins and glamour, says Portia Muehlbauer, a Rutgers Law School student who was crowned Miss New Jersey US International earlier this year, but it’s also great training for a career in law and advocating for people with disabilities.

The state of Maryland has reached a settlement agreement with the owner and the operator of the Dali cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge two years ago, killing six construction workers, Attorney General Anthony G. Brown announced Thursday.

It’s not that personal injury lawyer Victor Demesmin Jr. was looking for a fight, exactly. But he was certainly looking for a challenge. That’s just the kind of guy he is—so throwing himself into the ring as a bare-knuckle fighter is on brand for the South Florida father of three. “The idea of going into a ring, bare-knuckled, it was the scariest thought for me,” says Demesmin, 37. “And because it was so scary for me, I decided I would have to do it.”

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, according to a detailed analysis conducted for The Washington Post.

While the largest number of law school applicants since 2011 resulted in the largest first-year class in recent years, enrollment of first-generation college graduates decreased for the second year, even before changes to student loans and higher education budgets come into effect, according to a report released Wednesday by the Law School Admission Council.

If a lawyer knows or should know information in a court proceeding that would likely warrant a judicial disqualification, they have an obligation to disclose it, even if the judge doesn’t, according to an ethics opinion released Wednesday by the ABA.

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared a path for Stephen K. Bannon’s effort, backed by the Justice Department, to dismiss his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was examined by a physician last month after he “felt ill” during an event in Philadelphia, a spokeswoman for the court said Friday.

President Donald Trump’s decision to remove Pam Bondi as attorney general delivers a new disruption to an already embattled U.S. Justice Department as it works to advance the administration’s policy goals and sometimes controversial prosecutions.

The Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional.