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How To Get Better At Networking: A Critical And Learnable Skill

Success in business development is a cumulative process, built through years of strategic investment of your time and energy.

Down With The LSAT?

Do standardized tests have a place in law school admissions in 2022?

Managing The Hybrid Office Of The Future With A Couple Clicks

Maptician is the office real estate tool crafted for this moment.

Biglaw Is Filled With Some Elitist Jerks

Biglaw interviews can really go off the rails!

After Burning Through Every Lawyer In DC, Trump Turned To Wingnut Tom Fitton For Help With Records Kerfuffle

Nothing could go wrong here!

Twitter Whistleblowing Report Actually Seems To Confirm Twitter’s Legal Argument, While Pretending To Support Musk’s

This is weird.

Morning Docket: 08.26.22

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* Move over Texas! California found a way to fight environmental destruction with guns! [Press Democrat]

* Medical providers take a gambler’s approach to abortion access. [NBC Los Angeles]

* Forget losing your license, providing an abortion in Texas could get you life in prison! [NBC DFW]

* Surprising no one, a Mississippi Appeals Court keeps a Jim Crow voter suppression law on the books. [Mississippi Free Press]

* Tennessee anti-abortion law doesn’t allow any exceptions for abortions. Might not be the best place to practice medicine if you don’t want to see your patients die preventable deaths once things go septic. [The Tennessean]

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.  He endured 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.

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Kim Kardashian Knows More About Law Than Hillary Clinton: Of course she does — anyone knee-deep in law school/bar prep is better situated to answer a pop quiz. But still — good for Kim.

Bringing Back School Beatings? Is this what they mean by make America great again? Because that’s a big NOPE from me, dog.

Inflation Hasn’t Been Kind To Lawyers: Median salary has gone down over the last 20 years.

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This Biglaw Firm Has The Most Women Equity Partners In The Am Law 200

Equity partnership is the best kind of partnership.

State Worried That Talking About Race Harms Kids Brings Back Beating Children In School

'Giving teachers guns wasn’t enough, they’ll have belts too!' - Missouri parents, apparently

BREAKING: Magistrate Judge To Unseal Redacted Affidavit In Time To Ruin Trump’s Weekend

Careful what you wish for, 'cause you just might get it.

LegalEase Acquires CLM Gurus To Expand Its Services, Capabilities, And Capacity

LegalEase says that the acquisition adds senior talent and experience for its end-to-end CLM implementation offerings.

Because Biglaw Isn’t Big Enough: New Market Opportunities For New Offices

Is Biglaw heading to the Mountain West region next?

Which Biglaw Firm Should You Work For? The Real Info You Need To Decide

You need the Law Firm Transparency tool to make the biggest decision of your career.