“Law firms are for-profit businesses. While law schools equip students with legal reasoning, case analysis and advocacy skills, they don’t teach the business of practicing law—an oversight that can significantly impact career trajectory and success, especially in a law firm.”
The monotony and loneliness of studying for the bar exam inspired Joseph Kemp to create a card game focused on legal issues—called Disbarred: The Card Game—with his longtime friend Latoya Bethune.
Sara E. Yood serves as the president, CEO and general counsel for the Jewelers Vigilance Committee, a 108-year-old nonprofit trade association focused on legal compliance in the jewelry industry.
As a lawyer, I used to think advocacy was something I only did for others. After almost going blind, I learned the hard way that it’s also something I must do for myself.
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending the validity of its decision to appoint Alina Habba as the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey by first designating her as a “special attorney,” one of several efforts around the country to keep top prosecutor picks in place without U.S. Senate confirmation.
For attorneys, the move abroad can be tricky, depending on whether you’re planning on still practicing U.S. law overseas or whether you’d like to get admitted in a new country so you can practice that country’s law.
Today, the judiciary grapples with a troubling reality: Ensuring justice while living in fear of retaliation. Consequently, judges are requesting additional financial support after a recent slew of attacks and threats against them and their families.
Besides sitting on the bench, Judge Ashleigh Parker, a judge for the 10th Judicial District in North Carolina, also runs seminars and lectures specifically for judges about how to spot signs of domestic abuse.
The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has lost 368 employees since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to figures provided to a Democratic senator.
Updated: Three former Justice Department officials, including a longtime federal prosecutor who handled cases against the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters, filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Pam Bondi and President Donald Trump’s administration for failing to follow the administrative guardrails protecting employees from arbitrary or unlawful termination.
Criminal defense lawyer Roy Black, known for representation of defendants who included multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein and physician William Kennedy Smith, a member of the Kennedy family, died Monday at age 80.
Federal judges in New Jersey declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in the state, to continue serving in that role, delivering a resounding rebuke to one of his administration’s most polarizing Justice Department appointees and teeing up a showdown over who would lead the office.
Updated: The National Conference of Bar Examiners is carefully treading through a maze of tech challenges ahead of the July 2026 launch of the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, hoping to ease bar candidates’ minds and keep test days free from tech-induced drama.
The clock was ticking for John Sarcone III, the interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York. Picked by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Sarcone was slated to lead the Northern District of New York on a more permanent basis. While awaiting U.S. Senate confirmation, Sarcone needed the seal of approval by a panel of federal judges before his interim term of 120 days expired.
