Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide insights into the justices’ decision making and what we can expect from the court in the future. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official […]
Well-reseted compared to future doctors and nurses Law students are getting more shut-eye than many of their peers, according to new research ranking the UK’s most sleep-deprived uni courses. The analysis placed law among the least sleep-deprived subjects, with a score of 24.3 out of 100 on the “sleep deprivation index”. By contrast, nursing, nutrition […]
‘Inflated’ timesheets leads to strike off A former senior associate at Irwin Mitchell has been struck off after submitting “inaccurate, misleading, and inflated” timesheets — including one day where she recorded nearly 23 hours of chargeable work. Natasha Janet Dionne Fairs, who joined the national firm in 2007 and became a senior associate in 2022, […]
(Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) Intel just agreed to give the federal government a roughly 10 percent ownership stake. It’s reportedly a common stock deal that binds the federal government to vote with the board unless the board is voting to undermine the deal itself. The deal is a payoff for the CHIPS […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia — poster boy for the Trump administration’s slapdash approach to deportations — with a plan to send him to (of all places) Uganda. Which Biglaw firm filed a habeas corpus petition (which […]
Never Too Young For Aggressive Negotiations: Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland and Young Conaway play dirty. They’ve Arrested Abrego Garcia Again: He just got back and now they’re trying to send him to Uganda. Trump Appeals Biglaw Executive Order Loss: He’s got people on the inside — why wouldn’t he? Pauline Newman Denied Appeal Bid: Wouldn’t it […]
No test, no problem! The LSAT has been the staple box to tick off if you want to get in to law school, but it hasn’t been a hard requirement for every school. The ABA is inviting law schools to laxen up the application requirements by inviting schools to give students more time to apply […]
This [Husch Blackwell’s fully virtual office, The Link] is working. We figured it out. And I think that people who are most frustrated are the people who were so successful and then enjoyed some of the benefits of it, and now their companies and their firms are saying, ‘well, we don’t care. We want you […]
The “blue slip” tradition, requiring home state senator approval for judicial nominees, is back in the news. If the tradition of getting senators to sign off on a president’s judicial nominees — potentially of another political party — seems like it’s from a bygone era, well, you’re not entirely wrong. During Trump’s first term in […]
The Trump administration’s haphazard deportation scheme sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to an El Salvadoran slave prison… by accident. OOPS! After a federal lawyer was forced to admit the mistake — because he didn’t want to lie to the court — the administration promptly fired the attorney. The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to bring […]
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