What happens when one branch simply ignores the checks and balances enshrined in our Constitution and does what it wants? Specifically, if the judiciary issues a ruling and the executive branch refuses to obey it, what can be done about it?
With generative artificial intelligence’s growing availability and acceptance into students’ workflow, some law schools are wondering whether unauthorized AI use should be an honor code violation—something that could potentially trip up aspiring lawyers in the character and fitness portion of the bar licensure process.
Veterans, says retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. Michael Dick, can struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and brain injuries. They can have trouble getting or keeping employment. And they can find themselves lost in a bureaucratic system as they try to get disability compensation, he adds.
Zooming in on the legal profession, 67% of all young lawyers and 68% of young lawyers with student loan debt feel stressed or anxious because of their finances, according to a 2024 survey by the ABA Young Lawyers Division. The survey also found early career lawyers with high debt are delaying marriage and having children and are struggling to reach savings and investment goals.
A trial judge made errors requiring a new trial in a case stemming from a woman’s suicide after her 10-year-old daughter was removed from her care and held at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, a Florida appeals court ruled last week.
A lack of funding stemming from the federal government’s shutdown is forcing Maryland and the District of Columbia to place restrictions on registration for the February 2026 bar exam, leaving candidates scrambling.
As critical midterms loom, legions of election law lawyers are locked in nearly unprecedented conflict. Ordinarily, redistricting occurs after a census at the start of each decade; midcycle remapping for partisan advantage has happened only twice since 1970.
A workgroup created by the Florida Supreme Court has developed a dozen alternative methods for law school accreditation as the state considers options beyond the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, including requesting that the council become independent from the ABA.
The companies challenging President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies in a pair of consolidated cases that will go before the U.S. Supreme Court include an importer of wine, sake and spirits from six continents; another company that imports raw materials for manufacturing plumbing and drainage products; an e-commerce supplier of sport fishing gear; and a women’s cycling apparel brand. The companion case going before the justices on Nov. 5 was brought by a family-owned pair of educational toy companies that serve the consumer and school markets.
A federal judge in Oregon is threatening sanctions against a corporate litigant and its BigLaw attorneys for “fake citations” that appear to be the product of generative artificial intelligence.
