Prep built in Queen Mary University of London has become the first London-based Russell Group university to offer SQE preparation as part of its Master of Laws (LLM) programmes. The new programme, launched in partnership with BARBRI, enables Queen Mary students to combine their SQE preparation with a master’s degree. Available across sixteen LLM specialisms, […]
No, That’s Not A Typo: Alex Spiro is raking in cash hand over fist! If You Thought Trump Hanging Up His Mugshot Was Bad: The most recent DOJ hire is known as the guy who hung up a Hitler portrait. Other Lawyers Are Paying The Cost Of Doing Business: Jay-Z isn’t done with Tony Buzbee. […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Axiom’s 2025 Deputy General Counsel Report, what is identified as the most important skill for a general counsel? Hint: 45% of respondents rank this as the most important skill, but 31% say they lack the opportunities to develop it. See the […]
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) In the latest installment of Trump Weaponizing the Government While Screaming About the Weaponization of the Government, the White House yanked security clearances from Covington & Burling because they represent Jack Smith. A competent administration would develop some pretext for the revocation of Covington’s security clearances to avoid allegations of […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The bar is constantly getting higher and higher to become an equity partner at a law firm, and I don’t see that changing. — Jeff Lowe, senior managing partner and market president for Washington, D.C., consulting firm CenterPeak, in comments given to the American […]
Would it surprise you to know that males account for over 20% of those with eating disorders? For bulimia, it goes up to 30%. That is what I dealt with for more than 20 years. A male lawyer binging and purging? What do you say? Yep. That was me. It started my freshman year […]
There’s a lot that’s shocking about the Department of Justice’s latest hire — former Oregon judge, Vance Day. Day has a *history* of questionable behavior that got him the longest suspension (at the time) in the history of the Oregon bar. But, for my money, the most WTF moment (and in the year of our […]
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was sympathetic to an Ohio woman who alleges that she was the victim of reverse discrimination. Marlean Ames contends that she lost out on a promotion that she wanted, and then was demoted, simply because she is straight. With Ames and her employer in what Justice Neil Gorsuch described […]
Recently, the Trump administration announced that massive layoffs were coming to the IRS. Right now, it is the middle of tax-filing season so the timing couldn’t be more awkward. According to various sources, up to 15,000 IRS employees will be targeted for termination and 6,000 have already been terminated. Most of the impacted employees are […]
We all knew that this administration of the California bar exam would be a disaster. We just didn’t know how bad it would get. The answer — as Clemenza put in The Godfather — pretty goddamn bad. The new test employing Kaplan questions and administered by Meazure Learning suffered setback after setback in the lead up […]
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