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A Fox News producer alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that she worked in a “misogynistic environment” at the network and received worse legal representation than male employees as she prepared for deposition testimony in the
defamation case filed by Dominion Voting Systems.
Mar 21, 2023 12:32 PM CDT
Lowenstein Sandler has laid off 16 business services professionals, the law firm confirmed to Law.com Wednesday evening.
Mar 16, 2023 12:07 PM CDT
The U.S. Judicial Conference
is recommending that Congress create two more permanent judgeships with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco and dozens of new judgeships at the district court level.
Mar 15, 2023 4:02 PM CDT
Hey, lawyers! Is everybody happy? If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. Many of our colleagues are not exactly thrilled while practicing law. As Nanki-Poo in Gilbert and Sullivan’s
The Mikado might say, the best way they could express their joys of law practice would be “modified rapture.”
Mar 15, 2023 3:17 PM CDT
U.S. Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan has received an apology after protesters he described as “juvenile idiots” interrupted his March 9 speech with the Federalist Society at Stanford Law School.
Mar 13, 2023 11:32 AM CDT
Georgia courts are having trouble addressing case backlogs because the state has a shortage of lawyers, including prosecutors and public defenders, the state’s chief justice said this week.
Mar 10, 2023 1:50 PM CST
Legal sector adds 1,500 jobs
The legal services sector continues to add jobs, despite reports of layoffs at some BigLaw firms. The sector gained 1,500 jobs in February, according to…
Mar 10, 2023 11:57 AM CST
A would-be class action lawsuit alleges that the DoNotPay website is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and is harming its customers by providing legal services that are “substandard and poorly done.”
Mar 10, 2023 9:24 AM CST
William “Bill” Horton, a longtime leader in the ABA Health Law Section, died Tuesday from cancer. “There are those lawyers whom the ABA changes, and there are those who change the ABA. Bill Horton is one of the latter,” ABA President-Elect Mary Smith said in a tribute.
Mar 10, 2023 9:00 AM CST
A senior legal adviser to then-President Donald Trump has agreed to a public censure while admitting that her false claims about election fraud violated lawyer ethics rules.
Mar 9, 2023 10:16 AM CST
A Los Angeles lawyer is facing ethics charges for Twitter posts calling for the shooting and summary execution of protesters following the 2020 death of George Floyd while in police custody.
Mar 8, 2023 11:09 AM CST
When Lauren Stiller Rikleen was approached in 2020 by the
ABA Judicial Division to help compile autobiographical stories from women judges in America, a powerful motivating factor for her was to capture stories of the barriers that the judges overcame in their words.
Mar 8, 2023 9:07 AM CST
A 15-year-old Mississippi youth is planning to attend law school this year after getting a 174 on the Law School Admission Test.
Mar 8, 2023 8:37 AM CST
“We address judges as ‘your honor’ because we know they have real power. We appeal to their honor, not their egos, when we do it. ... ‘Your honor’ isn’t merely aspirational; it’s gloriously aspirational,” writes a Connecticut complex litigation judge.
Mar 7, 2023 8:47 AM CST
Winston & Strawn partner
Abbe Lowell is representing President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden in congressional investigations after building ties to the Trump White House and representing former President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, the New York Times reports.
Mar 6, 2023 10:25 AM CST
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