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Our top LinkedIn posts of 2024

By Jackson A. Thomas

December 23, 2024, 10:54 am CST

As we close the door on 2024 and step into 2025, we're giving readers a behind-the-scenes look at the ABA Journal's LinkedIn page and social media analytics.

There are many ways to gauge engagement on LinkedIn. But this year, we’ve chosen to show you the Journal’s LinkedIn social media posts that received the most clicks, the most comments and the most reactions.

Contribute to the discussion by following the Journal’s LinkedIn page here.

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Most clicks

1. May 14 - An associate clinical professor at the Mississippi College School of Law died over the weekend in a fatal shooting that also claimed the lives of her mother and sister.

2. April 10 - Alex Spiro, a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, wrongly appeared at a Texas deposition without pro hac vice permission and then proceeded to act in a “ridiculously unprofessional” manner, according to a sanctions motion.

3. May 9 - A woman who served six months in prison at Rikers Island in New York as a teenager passed the bar exam on the first try, a moment captured in a viral video posted to TikTok.

4. Aug. 24 - Vice President Kamala Harris would be the second president with a law degree from a school outside the top 14 if she is elected president.

5. May 20 - BigLaw firm will pay up to $20M to top partners, an amount needed “to be at the big table.”

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Most comments

1. May 7 - Thirteen federal judges, all of them appointees of former President Donald Trump, have announced that they won’t hire clerks who graduate from Columbia University or Columbia Law School.

2. Aug. 24 - Vice President Kamala Harris would be the second president with a law degree from a school outside the top 14 if she is elected president.

3. May 14 - An associate clinical professor at the Mississippi College School of Law died over the weekend in a fatal shooting that also claimed the lives of her mother and sister.

4. Feb. 27 - Is SCOTUS making it harder to teach constitutional law? Profs “depleted” and taken aback by “velocity” of change.

5. Jan. 16 - A murder defendant whose lawyer slept during parts of the trial was denied his right to counsel under the state constitution, entitling him to a new trial, the top court in Massachusetts has ruled.

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Most reactions

1. May 9 - A woman who served six months in prison at Rikers Island in New York as a teenager passed the bar exam on the first try, a moment captured in a viral video posted to TikTok.

2. Jan. 10 - Women have a slight majority in the ranks of associates at U.S. law firms, the National Association for Law Placement says in its latest diversity report.

3. May 14 - An associate clinical professor at the Mississippi College School of Law died over the weekend in a fatal shooting that also claimed the lives of her mother and sister.

4. Jan. 14 - Women have a slight majority in the ranks of associates at U.S. law firms, the National Association for Law Placement says in its latest diversity report.

5. Jan. 17 - Opposing counsel may want to watch out for Rochelle Ballantyne, a first-year litigation associate at Sidley Austin and a longtime chess champ with a fierce competitive spirit.

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