3.5% rise sees firm join summer salary scramble International law firm HFW has announced an increase in salaries for its newly qualified (NQ) solicitors, effective immediately. The shipping specialists confirmed rates for its most junior lawyers will move from £100,000 to £103,500, a nice little bump of 3.5%. The Legal Cheek Firms Most List shows […]
One of the many secrets (or maybe not-so secret depending upon whom you talk to) is the issue of enforcing judgments — not winning them but collecting on them — which is comparable to walking barefoot across a field of rusty nails without a tetanus shot beforehand. The client is deliriously happy; the case has […]
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by Jake S. Truscott and Adam Feldman, in the October 2024 term, which law school had its graduates arguing the most oral arguments? Hint: Alum from this law school made up 25% of the lawyers arguing at the Court […]
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Former Supreme Court Justice Pretends Sham Legal Theory Is Used In Good Faith: You can advocate for pragmatism without pretending originalism is a real thing. Biglaw Firm Celebrates With Its Audience In Mind: Their firework celebration comes with a quiet room in case it gets to be too much! What IS Porn, Really?: If it’s […]
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. For a contrasting view on United States v. Skrmetti, please see this piece by Erin Hawley. To uphold Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-affirming care, the court in United States v. […]
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. For a contrasting view on United States v. Skrmetti, please see this piece by Craig Konnoth. The majority opinion in United States v. Skrmetti is both measured and bold. By […]
* Deal market boom creates M&A lateral feeding frenzy. [Bloomberg Law News] * Abrego Garcia lawyers detail beatings and torture at El Salvador slave labor camp. [NY Times] * Supreme Court leaned into culture wars this Term. You think? [Reuters] * Pour one out for your local immigration lawyer because they’re really going through it […]
Book bans are all the rage these days, as you likely well know. Far too many people, and folks in government more importantly, seem to have read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 not as a lesson in the dangers of new media, but as some sort of instruction manual for how to treat literature. But the real story here […]
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