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Temporary Win For Vermont Law School’s Right To Veil

If covering the mural isn't a modification, would painting over the cover of the mural be?

Biglaw’s Throwing Around $500,000 Signing Bonuses In Red Hot Lateral Market

The eye-popping signing bonuses for lateral associates.

Your ‘Liberal’ Law Professors?

We need more conservative law professors. But: What if we already have a lot of them?

Actually, That Information Wasn’t So Much Worthless As Worth $200 Million

The CFTC misspoke initially.

Morning Docket: 10.26.21

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* Some firms are incorporating “virtual internships” into their recruiting process. Interns deserve to do their grunt work under only the best simulated conditions. This better come with a company VR set! [Reuters]

* Oklahoma’s Supreme Court does not give the OK to anti-abortion laws scheduled to go in effect on Monday. [Fox News]

* Justice Sonia Sotomayor describes Court’s refusal to block SB8 as “catastrophic.” How long until people spin her defense of the rule of law as the true partisanship? [The Hill]

* Texas governor bases kids’ ability to play sports in high school strictly on what the first people to view their genitals say. [Texas Tribune]

* Anti-terrorism law used to sentence neo-Nazis heading to a pro-gun rally in Virginia. One of them was a U.S. Vet. Hoorah. [Military Times]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

The ‘Best Value’ For Your Law School Loan Bucks — See Also

These Law Schools Are Some Of The Cheapest… But do they really provide the “best value”?

This Latham Associate Needs Our Support: Alec Baldwin fatally shot the lawyer’s wife, who was a famed cinematographer.

Derek Chauvin’s Sentence May Be In Jeopardy: A recent Minnesota case could possibly bring a shorter prison stay his way.

Hungry Hippos No Longer Hungry For Justice: Big win for animal rights.

Judges Getting Judged: Disciplined for doing good deeds (and “filthy” deeds).

Treating Impostor Syndrome

It is not a mental disorder, but simply a limiting mindset that affects a lot of people.

AI-Powered Tax Research Platform Blue J Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Entity And Relationship Diagramming

This feature allows users to drop common entity shapes quickly and easily onto a canvas, draw connecting relationships between entities, and capture key data related to the entities and relationships.

No Wonder This Supreme Court Justice Gets On Board With Lost Causes

Fans of the NY Mets have a certain fortitude about them.

Tell The Scrivener The Intended Audience

Things that are written for an ignorant public audience will be very different from things written for internal readers.

Derek Chauvin Still Has To Do His Time… For Now

This would be even less of a problem if he was in jail for 1st degree murder.

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This Lawyer Keeps Score For Steph Curry When He’s Done With His In-House Work

This is one of the coolest side gigs in the world for a sports fan.

The Law Schools That Provide The ‘Most Value’ For Students (2021)

The Top 25 'Best Value' law schools.

Top 30 Biglaw Firm Changes Billable Hours Policy To Include Bonus Credit For Up To 50 Hours Of Diversity Work

This firm truly cares about the diversity of its workforce.