NEW YORK—Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty over charges of stalking and killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in late 2024, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Zachary Clopton will become the dean of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, effective Feb. 1.

The California Supreme Court let stand without comment Wednesday a ruling to rebrand the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, erasing the connection to its founder who has been linked to the massacre of the indigenous Yuki people of Northern California in the 19th century.

The Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law is no longer on probation, has returned to compliance and remains an accredited law school, according to a Jan. 26 post on the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s website.

The work of getting a summer associate job starts earlier, moves faster and is more likely to be conducted by employer-sponsored programs instead of law school-sponsored methods, according to a new study from the National Association for Law Placement.

With a decision deadline nearing in the wake of the flopped launch of its proprietary bar exam last year, California leaders on Friday chose not one but two options to explore as it prepares for the July 2028 administration of the test.

Paul Farrell Jr. suffered a bruising loss in the case he cared about most: a federal bench trial on behalf of his West Virginia hometown accusing drug distributors, a largely unseen part of the pharmaceutical supply chain, of causing the opioid epidemic. The Bitter Pill chronicles Farrell’s single-minded focus on the case for almost nine years and counting.

Independent law schools are scrambling to make sure their students can continue to access student loans as the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar’s council’s accrediting powers are reviewed by the U.S. Department of Education.

Parents who contend social media is harmful to youths will make their argument in court this week when the first of several high-profile social media addiction lawsuits against Meta, TikTok and YouTube goes to trial. These suits will test the proposition of whether social media causes psychological harm, which could have profound implications for the industry along with ordinary consumers.

Donald Trump called the media “the enemy of the American people” in a social media post a month after he was first sworn in as president in 2017. Since then, both in his personal capacity and as president, he has taken aim at media outlets and personalities he dislikes.