Graduation speakers
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Law Schools
Law Schools Are Bringing Out Big Names As 2024 Graduation Speakers
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Law Schools Are Bringing Out Big Names As 2023 Graduation Speakers
Justice Jackson is speaking at not one, but two schools this year. Wow! - Sponsored
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Law Schools
Law Schools Are Bringing Out The Best Legal Names As Speakers For In-Person Graduation Ceremonies
After years of virtual ceremonies thanks to COVID, law schools seek to impress this time around. -
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Law School Commencement Time Again! Who's Speaking?
Let us know who will attend your ceremony. -
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Law Schools
2019 Law School Graduation Speaker Roundup
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Harvard Law School Gets Some Depressing News At Graduation
Jeff Flake delivers some harsh words about Donald Trump at Harvard Law's graduation. - Sponsored
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It's Time To Let Us Know Who's Speaking At Your Graduation
Let us know who will be regaling your graduates. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.05.17
* Now that the Supreme Court Term is over, it’s time to take stock of SCOTUS. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, law professors Sai Prakash and John Yoo posit that the staunchly originalist Justice Thomas “might have found a fellow traveler in Justice Gorsuch.” [How Appealing]
* Speaking of the Journal, it’s the end of an era: the beloved WSJ Law Blog is no more (but note that the Journal’s stellar legal coverage will remain in the newspaper and online). [WSJ Law Blog]
* There’s an embarrassment of riches hen it comes to SCOTUS Term wrap-ups. The MoloLamken overview is always one of the best — and one of the most useful, for the many Above the Law readers representing big business as lawyers in Biglaw. [MoloLamken]
* And if you like your Supreme Court reviews live, check out this one tomorrow night at the 92nd Street Y here in New York, featuring an all-star cast of commentators: Dan Abrams of ABC News, Joan Biskupic of CNN, Dean Trevor Morrison and Professor Kenji Yoshino of NYU Law, and moderator Thane Rosenbaum, director of NYU’s Forum on Law, Culture & Society. [FOLCS]
* Will Chief Justice John Roberts’s recent speech at his son’s graduation go down in history as one of the best commencement addresses ever? [Jane Genova — Speechwriter-Ghostwriter]
* And where is the Chief Justice spending the summer? Like many of his colleagues on the Court, JGR is leaving the country (and given what D.C. is like in the summer, you can’t blame him). [The Economist]
* A piece by NPR’s Nina Totenberg over the long weekend reignited the Justice Kennedy retirement rumors (which I’ve thrown cold water on last year and again last week — but even I admit that AMK might retire around this time next year). [Daily Intelligencer / New York Magazine]
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Law Schools, Litigators, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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Paul, Weiss partner Roberta Kaplan reflects on the history-making case of United States v. Windsor.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.15.17
* “When the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence, they invoked our creator four times, because in America we don’t worship government we worship God.” Guess who was awarded an honorary law degree this weekend? It was none other that President Donald Trump, who delivered the commencement address at Liberty University on Saturday morning. [The Hill; TIME]
* The Pink Ghetto (Partner Edition)? A Proskauer Rose partner has filed a $50M gender bias suit against the firm, claiming she was not only paid less than male colleagues, but that she was “overtly objectified based on her sex” when a fellow partner allegedly “made inappropriate comments regarding her appearance, body, clothing, or ‘sexiness'” on numerous occasions. [Am Law Daily]
* Tarra Simmons has quite the résumé: she’s a convicted felon and former drug addict who also happens to be the recipient of a prized Skadden fellowship. Unfortunately, she may not be able to practice law thanks to a recommendation from the Washington State Bar Association’s Character and Fitness Board that she be denied bar admission. She plans to appeal. [Northwest Public Radio]
* Walter “Chet” Little, a former Foley & Lardner partner, has been arrested on insider trading charges that stem from his time at the firm. Soon after finding out about the nature of the charges, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, his current firm, politely showed him the door. If convicted, Little will likely face quite the lengthy prison term and a fine of up to $5 million. Ouch. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “There was never a question of whether I was going to go to law school or not. It was just when I was going to go….” Chris Carr, a former cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens, is set to graduate from GW Law School this weekend. He’ll be taking the California bar exam this summer, but he recently accepted a job offer at an immigration law firm in Virginia. Congratulations! [Washington Post]
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Law Schools, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Shortlister Turned General Counsel Calls Out The Court (Plus Presidents And Congress Too)
Controversial comments from a leading judge turned general counsel. -
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Biglaw
PayPal Co-Founder Understands How Bad Biglaw Really Is
Peter Thiel was in Biglaw in the early 90s, but little has changed since then. -
Law Schools
The 12 Best Commencement Speech Tips For The Law School Graduating Class Of 2016
This is the beginning of your next chapter. This is just the beginning of your outstanding career.