Share The Supreme Court on Friday left in place for now an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that instructed President Donald Trump to temporarily reinstate the head of an independent federal agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation. The justices did not act on a request from the Trump administration to block […]
Many states impose mandatory retirement ages, set by statute, on judges. Such retirement ages make sense since it is important that individuals retire when they may be less able to fulfill the duties of their demanding jobs and so that new people can fill roles held by those who retire. Some law firms also have mandatory retirement […]
Getty Images Ed note: This is the third in a series. Read the previous installment here. Imagine your follow-up as a gourmet meal, not just a quick snack. It should be substantial, memorable, and leave your contact looking forward to more. This means offering value in a way that enriches your connection, turning a brief meeting into […]
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Amy Bowen and Elise Buie back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. Raising children isn’t easy. There, I said it, so you don’t have […]
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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I think that the creation of chaos certainly seems intentional. That is making it very hard for everyone to catch their breath and figure out the actual implications of any one set of materials. Now is the time for schools to work with legal […]
While law firms struggle to keep a lid on AI security threats and otherwise control lawyers using AI out of turn, Linklaters has a forward-thinking solution that more firms should embrace. As RollOnFriday notes, Linklaters puts its prospective robot lawyers through a UK law exam of their own design, crafting 50 questions from 10 different […]
Wannabe Gestapo “Eagle” Ed Martin is making a name for himself with the DOGE Führer. The acting head of the US Attorney’s Office in DC has informed the president’s biggest donor that he will hunt down anyone who behaved illegally or even unethically and “chase them to the end of the Earth.” Follow up. Sent […]
(Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Last night, Sixth Circuit Judge Chad Readler appeared at an American University Washington College of Law event. The former acting chief of the DOJ Civil Division spoke to Federalist Society students about the role of DOJ in “Defending Presidential Priorities.” It’s a subject he can certainly […]
Alex Kozinski (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Hooboy! Disgraced former Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski is back. He’s written a piece in the Wall Street Journal asserting — with little more then naked conjecture — that the United States’ elections could be canceled. The piece is very short, shockingly devoid of context, and lacking any […]
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