Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end birthright citizenship (John Fritze, CNN) Trump takes birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court (Nina Totenberg, NPR) Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges’ […]
* Court order reinstates tons of federal government workers [Law360] * Trump takes birthright citizenship order to Supreme Court. [Bloomberg Law News] * Lawyer heading to prison for lying about Biglaw on resume. [ABA Journal] * Spencer Fane revenue is up, though PEP actually went down slightly. [American Lawyer] * Newsmax forks over $40 million […]
As tech advances, the law mutates. In some cases (Riley, Carpenter) we get more protections. In other cases, we get fewer protections. This case dates back to 2022. Christopher Poller was a suspect Waterbury, Connecticut police officers were seeking to arrest. While surveilling his residence, officers approached his parked car. Poller wasn’t in it at the […]
Human rights specialist awaits sentencing A law PhD student at the University of Oxford has been found guilty of offences related to modern slavery. Lydia Mugambe, 49, joined Pembroke College, Oxford, in 2020 for a DPhil. In 2021, she was Treasurer in Pembroke’s Middle Common Room (MCR) and is listed in the “Hall of Fame” […]
SQE student seeks advice In our latest Career Conundrum, an SQE student wants to know if anyone else is in the same pickle, and for your advice on what their next steps should be. “I sat SQE1 in January and, unfortunately, while I passed FLK1, I did not pass FLK2 by a couple marks. As a […]
Law Society research Law firms’ earnings are on the rise but they’re waiting longer to get paid, new research produced by the Law Society has found. The Law Society’s 2025 Financial Benchmarking Survey reports a 6.1% increase in firm earnings for 2024, slightly below the 6.8% growth seen in 2023. Meanwhile, the average time for […]
For years, I have heard yammering from white male attorneys about how they are now disenfranchised. Please. Spare me. How about some examples from my almost 50 years in practice that dispute that ludicrous claim? A white male state bar president who proclaimed that women cannot be good trial lawyers, that they were only fit […]
We all have secrets. Mine were spread out to multiple cities. In between multiple divorces, drugs were delivered to my hotel room in Vegas. Coke deals transacted with quick hand-to-hand exchanges under cover of darkness just feet from the calming waves of the ocean at South Beach. I’m often asked, “How did your wives not […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! This week, which state announced they would administer the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ NextGen Bar Exam beginning in 2028, making them the 37th state to sign onto the revamped bar exam? Hint: This state’s version of the exam will include a half-day […]
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