Despite California’s troubled attempt at launching its own bar exam last February, about half of the state’s bar leaders prefer a plan to create a California-specific test in the long term and use Kaplan to develop a “bridge” exam in the short term over administering the new exam created by the National Conference of Bar Examiners, a new survey shows.

For the past year and a half, Dan D. Kohane has been writing LinkedIn posts about judges’ opinions blasting—and often sanctioning—lawyers who filed court briefs replete with AI-hallucinated cases.

After a first session defined by procedural friction, short-term funding measures and a record government shutdown, the second session of the 119th Congress is unfolding with fresh challenges, along with unresolved issues from the previous session.

In the latest knuckle-down on cat declawing, California this year joins five other states and Washington, D.C., in banning the surgical procedure for nonmedical reasons.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to block President Donald Trump from immediately firing Democratic-appointed Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve board, a move that would prevent Trump from exerting greater influence over the powerful central bank that guides the economy.

Lawyers sometimes have to provide additional information to former clients and their new attorneys, even if the information is not found in the former client’s file, according to an ABA ethics opinion released Wednesday.

In Passion and Power: A Life in Three Worlds, Harriet Newman Cohen chronicles her journey as a divorce lawyer, with clients including actress Linda Lavin, actor Laurence Fishburne and many other celebrities. Cohen recently talked with the ABA Journal about her book, which is available Feb. 5.

Lindsey Halligan, a Trump administration lawyer who was named head of a key U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia last year with instructions to seek criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s political adversaries, left her post at the Justice Department on Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the constitutionality of a Hawaii law that sharply restricts where people can carry firearms—a case that may offer a strong indication of how far the justices will go in their push to loosen restrictions on guns.

The legality of President Donald Trump’s push to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook was already one of the biggest issues of the Supreme Court term before a bombshell dropped a little over a week ago.