Top 100 Firm Hit With Their Second Malpractice Claim This Year: They’re scoring big in a contest you don’t want to win! Hit-And-Run Claims First-Year Associate: Our condolences to his friends and family. Not The Biggest Fan Of John Sarcone III: A panel of judges decided against locking him in to a job he didn’t […]
No matter what becomes of these claims, it’s been a rough year for Akerman LLP. It’s only July and the firm has a strong lead in the “Most Cases Against Its Own Clients” race. A couple months ago, the firm went to court seeking unpaid fees from some medical companies only to have the defendants […]
As of today, John Sarcone III is out of a job. The former regional administrator for the US General Services Administration and town attorney in Westchester County was appointed to a 120-day term as interim U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York by Pam Bondi, and in order to keep the job, he needed […]
Aspiring law clerks are applying and interviewing for clerkships right now. Before The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) launched our nationwide Clerkships Database (aka “Glassdoor for Judges”), clerkship applicants accessed information about judges, if it existed, from their law schools. But schools’ clerkship resources are insufficient at best and misleading at worst. No school knows about […]
Last night, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to dismantle the Education Department, using the shadow docket to block efforts to temporarily halt the action. When the dust settles, the administration should lose, but by then all that will be left of the Department of Education will be three raccoons in a trenchcoat calling […]
While judges should get a lot of leeway when it comes to their courtrooms, there should also be limits. Things like play handcuffing children to prove a point or actually handcuffing children over fake laws are at the top of my “shit judges shouldn’t be doing in their own courtrooms” list, but that list is […]
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. I teach my students that a […]
A group of plaintiffs challenging North Dakota’s state legislative maps came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to block a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit that could weaken the power of the federal Voting Rights Act. The plaintiffs, which include two Native American tribes and several […]
* Supreme Court allows Trump to move forward with plan to eliminate the Department of Education. Why? Well, that might require writing an opinion and they’re not going to do something like that. [One First] * Plaintiff side firms can be just as lucrative for associates as Biglaw… and people are just now figuring that […]
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