An Austin, Texas, law firm has filed a more than $10 million lawsuit against several former clients to collect damages, alleging their “refusal to pay earned and contractually owed attorneys’ fees and expenses.”
Texas recently became the first state to officially cut ties with the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Meanwhile, Florida and two other states are considering similar moves. These moves have raised more questions than answers about what accreditation might look like and what the implications would be for law schools, law students and licensure.
Google and artificial intelligence chatbot maker Character Technologies have agreed to settle a Florida’s mother lawsuit alleging that a chatbot prompted her 14-year-old son to kill himself.
Members of the military and their spouses who are licensed attorneys in one state can now practice anywhere in the country, according to a December update issued by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
The Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump and Republicans a major political victory by clearing the way for a Texas congressional map that was drawn in the hope of flipping up to five House seats to the GOP.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission endorsed ending the “monopoly” of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as the country’s sole law school accreditor, citing “overly burdensome law school accreditation requirements” that raise prices and stifle attempts to offer “a differentiated, more affordable product.”
A judge in Brown County, Texas, has been suspended without pay after his indictment stemming partly from allegations that he hit a prosecutor and tried to hinder an arrest by failing to sign an arrest warrant.
A federal appeals judge used his dissent in a Texas redistricting case last week to “highlight the pernicious judicial misbehavior” of the judge who wrote the majority opinion and to complain that the main winners in the case are billionaire George Soros and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
