The morning read for Monday, Feb. 10

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Supreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders (Mark […]

Morning Docket: 02.10.25

* Return to office push taking a mental toll on lawyers. [Law.com] * Trump administration blocking federal funds set to build EV charging stations. Elon must not have been consulted on this one. [Law360] * Focus on immigration sapping DOJ resources from combatting terrorism. [Bloomberg Law News] * Facebook heads to appeals court to defend […]

Lawyers and recruiters reject paralegal’s advice to law grads on avoiding retail experience

LinkedIn post triggers strong reaction A paralegal’s advice against working in retail or hospitality for those seeking top graduate roles in law has sparked criticism from many legal professionals on LinkedIn. The law grad argues in a recent LinkedIn post that retail and hospitality work “doesn’t teach you the important transferable skills”, and that instead, […]

Will DeepSeek get you a training contract?

The Legal Cheek team contemplate using AI for law applications — listen now Following the news that the Bar Council have banned the use of ChatGPT, DeepSeek and similar tools in pupillage applications, we take a look at these tools and ask, how useful are they really? This week, Legal Cheek publisher Alex Aldridge and […]