Deans, Professors, Judges, Partners…: Basically everyone came out to the rule of law’s defense. With Neighbors Like These, Who Needs Enemies!: The Biglaw partner neighbor squabble got even worse. Bomb Threat Sent In To Biglaw Office: The firm encouraged everyone to work remotely as a precaution. Dumbass-In-Chief Cuts Government PACER Access: Really efficient at making […]
Getty Images Ed. note: This article first appeared in an ILTA publication. For more, visit our ILTA on ATL channel here. Data-driven roles are redefining industries worldwide, bringing the ability to analyze and act on data to the forefront of business strategies. For law firms, embracing data presents an exciting opportunity to optimize processes, better serve clients, […]
(Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We call upon all law firms and bar associations to join us in condemning this outrageous action. Unless there is a broad-based condemnation of this and similar attacks, we face a significant risk […]
Share Monday’s argument in BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman took the justices back to their law school days, with a question straight out of a traditional first-semester course in Civil Procedure. The specific topic here is the standard for reopening a judgment that a court already has entered, the subject of Rule 60 of the […]
(Photo by Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty Images) It’s been nearly 15 years since Casey Anthony was acquitted in the death of her child, Caylee Anthony. Since then, she’s been largely off the radar, although her bankruptcy attorney, Charles Greene, suggested in 2013 that she’d make a great paralegal thanks to her varied skillset. “She’s better than many […]
Getty Images There are really two types of personal injury law firms: those with attorneys who are willing to go to trial, and those who would rather settle. For those true trial firms that’ll fight for every last inch, trial technology becomes an important component of what they do. Use the right stuff, and you’ve […]
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(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Elon Musk and his “CoD waiting room-cum-audit team” continue their clumsy speedrun through the federal government. Each day brings another comical cockup from DOGE’s teenaged staff, from firing all the people in charge of nuclear weapons to casually spawning a whole army of foreign intelligence assets. A couple […]
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled that it was likely to shut down a lawsuit brought by the Mexican government, seeking to hold seven major U.S. gun makers and a gun wholesaler responsible for violence committed by Mexican drug cartels with U.S.-made weapons. A majority of the court appeared to agree with the gun […]
You know what’s worse than the disastrous rollout of a hastily thrown together bar exam overhaul? Rolling out a hastily thrown together bar exam retreat. Just when you thought the California bar exam disaster had reached its logical conclusion — after all, how much worse could it get? — the Cal Bar examiners appear poised […]
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