The Justice Department argued this week that former FBI Director James B. Comey intentionally threatened the life of President Donald Trump in a social media post in part to stir controversy and boost sales of his then-forthcoming novel.
The Association of Academic Support Educators is asking the Missouri Supreme Court to drop the pass score and reimburse bar applicants who took the July 2026 NextGen Uniform Bar Examination after facing disruptions during the inaugural administration of the skills-based exam designed to be taken by a personal computer.
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Delaware’s senators say they are concerned that Jennifer Mascott, a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, may not have been upholding her ethical obligations after a news report asserting that she moonlighted on the job.
Harvey AI has launched a new generation of its artificial intelligence platform, which now boasts the ability to learn and retain how individual lawyers work.
The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict against him in a case in which he was found liable for sexually assaulting former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
The latest wave of proposals to overhaul the Supreme Court have reached something of a fever pitch over the past few months, as Democrats grow increasingly frustrated with the court’s rightward turn.
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and admitted that he shot the executive outside an investor conference in late 2024.
Attorney General Todd Blanche struck an effusive, complimentary tone as he addressed Justice Department staff Thursday in his first public speech since being confirmed, a sharp contrast from the way he and other administration officials have described the department for the past year and a half.
The case appears to be a “major turning point in digital privacy law” as the U.S. Department of Justice tests a “completely novel legal theory by treating a native software security method as the criminal destruction of evidence,” says Kyle Courtney, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, where he teaches cyber law and privacy.
Imagine that you are sitting for the bar exam when suddenly you get a phone call from an unfamiliar phone number that registers as spam. Only later do you find out that it was a call to let you know you won the ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction.
