Taking The Protest To The Orange Shoe Firms: Use that free speech! This Biglaw Firm Is Committed To The Green: DWF makes plans to grow their own forest! Lawyer Arrested After Apparent Mental Breakdown: Rest is a key part of maintaining your mental health. Judge Ho Is Auditioning For The Supreme Court Again: This time […]
Helping prisoners understand parole and reduce re-offending Students from Hertfordshire Law School outside HMP The Mount A group of law students has been getting a taste of life behind bars through a new initiative that involves conducting mock hearings with real prisoners. Students from Hertfordshire Law School, supported by academics and a prison solicitor, have […]
Throws lavish celebration Kim Kardashian has graduated law school after six years — and pulled out all the stops to celebrate. The 44-year-old reality TV star has completed the California Law Office Study Program which allows aspiring lawyers to study law for four years in a law office or judge’s chambers, rather than attending a […]
You’ve established yourself as an authority in your field. Your firm can be found at the top of the search results for lawyers in your area. New clients keep coming through your door, and your billable hours continue to grow. Which leaves you confused: With all of this business, how can your firm be struggling […]
(via YouTube) Yesterday, Judge James Ho had what can only be described as a public tantrum on the public docket. That’s not exactly out of character for the most intemperate jurist on the Fifth (and most intemperate) Circuit. But in a novel twist, this time he was screaming directly at the Supreme Court for daring […]
A combination of long hours, intensive reading, and high-stakes outcomes puts a lot of stress on lawyers. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and what better way to celebrate it than to take a moment to assess how you’re coping with the stressors in your life? There is an understandable impulse to bottle things up […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Perhaps it is my general outspokenness on and sometimes off the bench. I am also told that some people think I am courageous for the ways in which I engage with litigants and my colleagues in the courtroom. — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in […]
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 Sonya L. Sigler back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. As I reflected upon in my last article, for a long time, I thought […]
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court Orders Maine House to Restore Voting Power to Censured Lawmaker, for Now (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times) What’s next for Venezuelans after Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status?(Daniella […]
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, once again asking the justices to take action on their emergency docket. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that would require the Department of Government Efficiency to provide information […]
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