Above the Law

If You’re Menstruating Or Lactating During The Bar Exam You’re Screwed

It's like they never really expected women to become lawyers.

Former Cravath Lawyer Named As Suspect In Fatal Shooting At Federal Judge’s Home

A shocking twist in this horrible case.

New York Law Deans Demand Diploma Privilege For Law School Graduates Instead Of Bar Exam

It's about time they spoke out in favor of this option.

Supreme Court Learns That If You Give John Yoo An Inch, He’ll Take Unchecked Martial Law

Yoo does his best Tom Sawyer impersonation.

Trump Administration’s Sudden Shift On COVID Data Leaves States In The Lurch

The Trump administration has directed hospitals to change how they report data to the federal government and how that data will be made available.

Law Grad Files $25 Million Lawsuit Claiming Law School Expelled Her For Supporting Trump

Everyone was allegedly out to get this congressional candidate.

T-14 Law School Wants It To Be Perfectly Clear They Aren’t Giving Tuition Refunds

Regardless of the havoc COVID may wreak.

The Radical Truth Is Bridgewater’s Not Responsible For Its 20.6% Loss

Some people have understood and connected the dots and lay the blame at the Fed’s door.

When Is An ‘Emergency’ An Emergency?

That's up to you. Yes, it is.

Hey, Law School Students! State Offering $18/Hour To Sit In The Middle Of COVID Superspreader Event!

Unsatisfied with just putting graduates through this, bar examiners looking to add current students to the mix.

Shooting At Federal Judge’s Home Leaves One Dead, One Critically Injured

The judge had reportedly been the target of threats.

On Lateral Moves: The Lawyer Gets Paid More, And The Client Gets Screwed

Won't SOMEONE think of the lawyers?

Morning Docket: 07.20.20

* Federal judge Esther Salas’s son was shot and killed, and her husband wounded, during an assault at the judge’s New Jersey home on Sunday night. Extending our deepest condolences to Judge Salas and her family. [CNN]

* The Oregon Attorney General has sued federal agencies over detentions federal officials have conducted on Portland protesters. [USA Today]

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Here We Go Again — See Also

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How Many Times Must She Smite You?: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancer again.

Bowling Alleys Are A Threat… But Not This?: A bid to get North Carolina’s government involved in fixing its bar exam.

You Don’t Usually Feel Sorry For The Clerks, But: The pandemic is undermining clerkship plans.

Technically Last Night: But California did move its bar exam online.

Kirkland’s Go-To Law School

They really like grads of this school.