Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The firm’s choices to dismantle its DEI recruiting initiatives and to engage in an agreement offering pro bono services to the Trump administration are steeped in hypocrisy, cowardice, and greed. It makes me feel ashamed to work here. — A midlevel associate at Latham […]
Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “What Birthright Citizenship Gave to Me: MAGA’s effort to restrict citizenship rights defies the Constitution — and endangers an essential part of […]
There’s a pretty clear hierarchy in the federal judiciary, with the nine justices on the Supreme Court sitting at the top of the pyramid. So much so that a district court judge recent took the unusual step of apologizing to the Supreme Court for not divining precisely what a shadow docket decision — sans a […]
Got that morning coffee… time to discuss my plea deal! Here at Kaleidoscope, the newly minted 8am’s inaugural conference, lawyers gathered to hear about the dangers lurking in their pockets. Rather than being happy to see us, the phones they lug around carry a ticking ethical timebomb poised to erupt as their terminally Millennial clients […]
Making it to midlevel in Biglaw isn’t easy, especially when the vast majority of what you know is pandemic and post-pandemic Biglaw life. Today’s midlevels — third-, fourth- and fifth-year associates — worked incredibly long hours during the uncertain times COVID-19 brought upon the legal profession and the world at large, and then they were […]
For years now, prosecutors have been fighting to bring Dan Markel’s killers to justice. Katharine Magbanua received a life sentence plus 60 years. Charlie Adelson got life, and his mother — Donna Adelson — recently got a jury verdict from her trial. She was found guilty accross the board. CNN has coverage: The matriarch of […]
Lawyers for a 24-year-old transgender woman urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to dismiss a challenge to an Idaho law that bans transgender women and girls from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams. Lindsay Hecox, who originally filed the case because Hecox wanted to try out for the women’s track and cross-country teams at […]
ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. The Framers of our Constitution were, of course, all criminals. This is not often said, but it deserves […]
Isolated incident A junior solicitor has been suspended from practice for 12 months after admitting he altered correspondence with a client in what he described as a “moment of panic”. Michael Goodwin, 40, joined Talbots Law in 2021 and had been qualified for less than two years when he mistakenly sent an email to the […]
26 of 30 Mishcon de Reya’s London office Mishcon de Reya has revealed that 26 of its 30 qualifying trainees have accepted newly qualified (NQ) solicitor roles at the firm, handing it a retention rate of 87%. Daniel Lipman, partner and training principal at Mishcon, said: “Our junior lawyers are the future of the firm […]
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