ABA Planning to Release Law School Data ‘As Soon As Received’
In a bid to allay grievances over law school data released by ABA being mostly two-year old and rather useless,…
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Lobbying World
Holly Fechner has previous experience serving under the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) as policy director and also had worked…
CA Man Sues Over Thong Discrimination
Based on the 14th amendment to the US Constitution's equal protection clause, a San Diego man is suing the city…
Bingham McCutchen Staff Layoffs
This article reports that there seems to be a trend amongst law firms to quietly reduce their staff including lawyers,…
NY State Bar Association Asks Law Firms to End Age Discrimination
The New York State Bar Association wants law firms to do away with mandatory retirement policies. The change in attitude…
Supreme Court Stumped over Racial Cocaine Use and Fair Sentencing
It’s not racist, but racial. In 2010, the Congress passed the Fair Sentencing Act to balance the sentencing over crack…
Warner Wins a Round over Superman
Seventy Four years ago, DC Comics, now owned by Warner Bros, had paid Siegel and Shuster $412 to acquire the…
Law Schools Hiring Their Own Students Led to Inflated Employment Data
Under the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar on the ABA website, a new extensive database of…
Court Upholds Challenge against Federal Laws on Pornography
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit reversed a case dismissed by a district judge in…
Binghamton Mayor Questions Law Firm’s Recruitment of Senator’s Son
On Monday, Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan filed a complaint with the Joint Commission on Public Ethics alleging unfair play in…
ABA Steps Back from Proposal of Non-lawyer Ownership of Law Firms
In a statement issued by the American Bar Association on Monday, Jamie Gorelick and Michael Traynor, co-chairs of the committee…
Lawsuit over Magic Trick Ownership
A lawsuit over ‘who owns that magic trick’ is pretty rare, and more so in the 21st century. But such…