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Law Schools
ABA's New Law School Free Speech Requirement Just Makes Everything Worse
The ABA's new accreditation requirement doesn't live in a vacuum. -
Law Schools
Wishing Law School Cost Less? Attending Law School Completely Online Could Be The Answer
It'll probably be like 3 years of Barbri online courses. - Sponsored
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Courts
The ABA Has Had Enough Of The Supreme Court Being Held Unaccountable
‘Idk man, a code of conduct would just make doing our jobs feel so yucky’ - Chief Justice Roberts, probably.
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Courts
The ABA Decides That Courtrooms Shouldn't Still Have Confederate Flags In Them. Also, There Are Courtrooms With Confederate Flags Still In Them.
The ABA has not yet decided if it is okay for courthouses to have The Punisher skull flags displayed proudly during vigilante violence cases. -
Law Schools
The ABA Has Decided! The LSAT Is Anything But Over With
Logic games. Those damned logic games did nothing to help me in Crim Law. -
Law Schools
Law School Deans Say Ending The ABA's LSAT Requirement Will Hurt Diversity... But Would It?
The deans lay out a lot of claims, but they don't really hold up. -
Law Schools
ABA Votes To End Admissions Testing Requirement... Everyone Panic Accordingly!
It seems like there's only upside here. -
Courts
The Insular Cases Remain After SCOTUS Refuses To Hear Appeal
Is it really that hard to treat people nicely? - Sponsored
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Government
As Unjust As They Are, The Insular Cases Are Still 'Good Law.' The ABA Is Pushing For SCOTUS To Change That.
Justice White really had a bone to pick back then huh. -
Law Schools
If The ABA Eliminates The LSAT, What Will D-Bags Cite As Their Pick-Up Line?
The ABA moves closer to eliminating the standardized testing requirement for law schools. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.15.22
* Hard to Barrett times: Supreme Court justice goes back to alma mater to speak on the tensions between precedent and equity. [NDSMC Observer]
* Virginia just passed a law that will ban open air burning before 4 p.m. to help stave off forest fires. If a mnemonic helps, say no to Sean Paul till 4! [WDBJ 7]
* The ABA makes it a requirement for law schools to require anti-bias training. Yes, I will be keeping eyes on Twitter for the people outraged over this. Something about enabling equity really gets under people’s skin. [Reuters]
* Well-behaved women seldom got hired: American Freight Management Company settles hiring discrimination lawsuit for $5M. Does this mean now is a good time to apply or that you wouldn’t want to work here anyway? Let us know! [HR Drive]
* About two thirds of Kentuckians are okay with legal sports betting. May the odds be ever in their favor. [WSN]
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Law Schools
Mixed Feelings Over Proposal To End Bar Exam
Fixing the legal profession is going to require change, but this might go too far.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.08.20
* McDonald’s is paying $26 million to settle a wage-theft lawsuit. That would go a long way on the dollar menu… [Business Insider]
* Senate Democrats met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett yesterday ahead of Supreme Court confirmation hearings next week. [Fox News]
* A new ABA ethics opinion suggests that lawyers need to disclose friendships and intimate relationships they have with opposing counsel to their clients. But some of us try to be friends with everyone… [Bloomberg Law]
* A lawyer for Britney Spears has purportedly likened Britney’s mental state to a comatose patient, and says that she is unable to give testimony. Maybe this lawyer is watching too much South Park. [TMZ]
* An Ohio lawyer has been suspended for calling another attorney a “complete idiot” and making other purportedly inappropriate responses. They must have some strict civility standards in the Buckeye State… [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.05.20
* A Chicago lawyer featured on the Netflix show Indian Matchmaking is facing a tough adjustment after experiencing the fame of being on the show. This series keeps showing up on my queue… [Chicago Sun Times]
* The Los Angeles District Attorney’s husband will face charges for waiving a gun at protesters near his home. [Hill]
* A new lawsuit is demanding that White House briefings have sign language interpreters. [New York Times]
* The American Bar Association has voted on a set of best practices for third-party litigation funding. That sentence may sound boring, but the implications are profound. [American Lawyer]
* A new class-action lawsuit claims that the popular app TikTok steals consumer data and sends it to China. [NPR]
* Check out this story of a lawyer who paid off $200,000 in student loans in two years. Man, she beat me by 22 months, hope she doesn’t start a blog… [Business Insider]
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Technology
ABA Launches First Ever National Disaster Relief Pro Bono Portal
Justice technology firm Paladin partnered with the ABA groups to give lawyers ready access to pro bono opportunities. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.24.20
* The American Bar Association has won a lawsuit establishing that ABA employees qualify for public service loan forgiveness. It would have been kind of embarrassing if a group of lawyers lost this case… [Forbes]
* Joe Biden is receiving some flak for wrongly stating that his late son was the Attorney General of the United States. [Fox News]
* A number of Republican state attorneys general are trying to block the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. [ABC News]
* A $14 million settlement has been proposed in a class action concerning inmates masturbating in front of Cook County public defenders. [Chicago Sun Times]
* Justice Sotomayor wrote a scathing dissent on Friday criticizing the government for allegedly abusing the emergency application process at the Supreme Court. [Bloomberg]
* A minor league baseball team has revoked the tickets of a law firm that filed a case against the franchise on behalf of a client. This seems kind of petty. [The Athletic]
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Biglaw
Bah, Humbug ...
Everyone and anyone who has even a smidgen of interest in why experienced women leave Biglaw should read the report. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.19.19
* An attorney who put price tags for cheaper items on more expensive products at Walmart has just received a one-year stayed suspension from practice. [Bloomberg Law]
* A plaintiffs lawyer involved in litigation against Monsanto has been charged with extortion for offering to cease legal action against a large company in exchange for a $200 million consulting fee. Hasn’t Michael Avenatti taught this lawyer anything? [CBS News]
* Boeing has been hit with another lawsuit involving its 737 Max jets. [CNN]
* The first African-American Attorney General in the history of Kentucky was sworn in this week. [NBC News]
* An attorney has been suspended for among other things submitting fake expense receipts for an ABA conference. [Bloomberg Law].
* It’s been a while since Above the Law published a “Lawyerly Lairs” segment, but check out famed “Making a Murderer” attorney Kathleen Zellner’s pad, which just hit the market. [Chicago Tribune]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.30.19
* Elon musk has joined the list of celebrities who have behaved poorly at depositions. [Business Insider]
* A Texas lawyer has been convicted of scamming Colombian drug dealers out of $1.5M. Guess there is no honor among theives. [Dallas Morning News]
* Lawyers have sought a delay of the trial involving former House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s alleged agreement to pay hush money to a former student. [NBC Chicago]
* A California court has found that a municipality’s requirement that city attorneys graduate from an ABA-approved law school is constitutional. This seems like a pretty basic requirement. [The Recorder]
* A copyright lawsuit about Taylor Swift’s song “Shake It Off” has been revived. I’m not going to make the same lazy joke about this story that pretty much every news source has already made… [USA Today]
* Two California law firms have settled a suit alleging that they engaged in a civil RICO conspiracy by filing ADA claims and forcing defendants to fork over quick settlements to avoid costly litigation. [ABA Journal]
* The first lawsuit against a fertility doctor accused of substituting his own sperm for that of an anonymous donor has been filed. This story sounds like a bad version of that Vince Vaughn flick. Delivery Man [CBS Denver]