Kids
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Crime
When Is A Child Old Enough To Be Jailed For Life?
When it comes to sentencing, 18- to 21-year-olds need a few more years to mature before they reason like adults. -
Constitutional Law
Should Minors Have A Constitutional Right To Realistically Violent (But Fun) Video Games?
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Government
Cage-Free Kids
Criminal defense attorney Toni Messina says if she were an immigrant with an open deportation order, or an undocumented alien, having been duly warned, she'd have been laying low over the weekend. -
Small Law Firms
My Son’s Middle School Graduation: Marking Personal, Educational, And Career Accomplishments For Mother And Child
When your child is essential to your successes as a mother and as a solo practitioner. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.21.19
* “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.” Children being detained at the border are in desperate need of legal assistance and humanitarian aid. [NBC News]
* Disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore, a “polarizing [] Republican,” has decided to launch yet another Senate bid after losing during his first go round. This time, even President Trump warned him against trying again. [New York Times]
* Puff, puff, pass this vote: New York may not have been able to legalize marijuana, but lawmakers are trying to do the next best thing by decriminalizing it. Fines for “violations” will be no higher than $200 and last convictions can be expunged upon request. [New York Law Journal]
* In case you missed it, Slack had its IPO yesterday, opening at $38.50 a share. Goodwin Procter certainly didn’t miss it, because the firm is looking to earn $2.5 million for its work on the company’s stock market debut. [Big Law Business]
* Shaakirrah Sanders, a black female professor at Idaho Law, has filed suit against the school the university, and a former dean, alleging race and gender discrimination and retaliation. She is the only professor of color and woman of color who has earned tenure at the school. [Idaho Statesman]
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Law Schools
17-Year-Old Who Will Graduate From High School And Harvard This Month Wants To Attend T14 Law School
This teenager wants to attend one of the best law schools in the country. -
Small Law Firms
Vacation Planning: Sun, Fun, And Choosing A Guardian For Your Children
If you have children, regardless of the size and nature of your assets, it is imperative to execute a will. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Biglaw
The Top 10 Law Firms For Gender Equity & Family-Friendly Policies (2019)
Plus, details on firms that require employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements. -
Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Children Of Lawyers 17 Times More Likely To Become Lawyers
Your family will never escape the legal profession. Sorry about that. -
Law Schools
This 16-Year-Old Will Be Going To Law School Next Year
Which law school will she be attending? -
Litigators
Litigating While Expecting (Part II): The Return
Would the trial attorney version of myself still exist after maternity leave? Fortunately, the answer turned out to be yes. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.25.19
* President Trump is preparing to declare a national emergency at the country’s southern border. A draft order is in the works, and $7B+ will be used to build the president’s wall to fix the humanitarian crisis he helped to create. [CNN]
* Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone was arrested early this morning in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. He’s been charged with seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering. [Washington Post]
* Were you planning on taking the D.C. bar exam in February? Not so fast. Thanks to the government shutdown, you might not be able to do so. We’ll keep you updated. If you’ve been waiting to get sworn in after passing the July 2018 bar, keep waiting — potentially for a while. [Law.com]
* Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, has called for a criminal investigation into Rudy Giuliani for his alleged witness tampering because “calling out a man’s father-in-law and wife in order to intimidate the witness is not fair game.” [The Hill]
* Like it or not, women still carry the bulk of their childcare duties, and lawyer moms often find themselves “deploy[ing] tactical maneuvers” to get the job done. At least millennials are doing what they can to eliminate motherhood bias. [Law.com]
* Congratulations to Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutgers-Camden, who was recently named as the co-dean of Rutgers Law School. She will be the first African-American and first LGBTQ law dean at Rutgers University. Well done! [Daily Targum]
* Believe it or not, you can still do a lot of extracurricular activities during law school. Just ask Ted Bundy. He killed up to eight women while he was a student at Utah Law. We hope your preferred activities are more… normal. [Salt Lake Tribune]
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Family Law
Attorney Succeeds At Changing The World For The Better (And Especially For British Single Parents)
With hard work, persistence, and a brave client willing to stand up to the status quo, you can change the world. -
Law Schools
Harvard Law Grad Who Took Final Exam While In Labor On Life As A Mother
Keep going. You can do it. She did. -
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Law Schools
The ‘realiTandE’ Of Being A Parent
No reality TV star wants to be caught dead (or alive) in probate court. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.27.18
* A Republican-appointed federal judge has ordered that families separated at the border be reunited within 30 days, and if children are younger than 5, they must be reunified within 14 days of her order. [USA Today]
* Immigration attorney Andrea Martinez claims that an ICE officer broke her foot and detained her in a room while she was covered in blood as she attempted to drop off a 3-year-old boy to be reunited with his pregnant mother before they were deported to Honduras. [Daily Beast]
* “Did Justice Anthony Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement? The depressing defeatism of Kennedy’s work this term indicates his time on the court could be coming to an end.” Given the fact that Justice Kennedy’s recent opinions have seemed a bit phoned-in… Rick Hasen might just be right. [Slate]
* In case you missed it amid all of the fanfare of Biglaw’s 2018 associate salary raise, the public interest pay gap is now even larger. Public interest salaries have been stagnant for way too long. In fact, according to NALP’s Public Service Attorney Salary Survey, the median entry-level salary is just $48,000. [Big Law Business]
* Sedgwick, the dearly departed Biglaw firm that suddenly closed its doors in January, is now facing a $450,000+ default judgment in a landlord/tenant lawsuit, which includes $31,982 in “failure to vacate” fees. Oopsie. [American Lawyer]
* Even though Florida Coastal has filed suit against the ABA, the law school accreditor has decided to extend a little olive branch to the school. It won’t have to reveal its weak first-time bar exam pass rate record to current students. [Daily Business Review]
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Government
Lawyer Moms Of America To Protest Children Being Separated From Their Parents At The Border
They will not let this unconscionable practice stand on their watch. -
Small Law Firms
Lawyer Becomes Internet Celebrity After Helping His Daughter Dance Ballet
This is the cutest thing ever. What a great dad!