Abner Mikva

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 07.05.16

* Tips from a Biglaw partner on balancing work and motherhood. [Big Law Business] * But not everyone thinks that Biglaw is conducive to balancing family life with work. [Law and More] * Which attorneys were most victorious at oral argument in front of the Supreme Court this Term? [Empirical SCOTUS] * Legal pot growers have a looming battle with the IRS. [Slate] * Is now the time to end the death penalty? [Guile is Good] * RIP, Judge Abner Mikva, whose career also included work as a U.S. congressman from Illinois, White House counsel to President Bill Clinton, and mentor to Barack Obama. He died this 4th of July. [Washington Post]

Benchslaps

Benchslapped: Take This Brief and Shove It

Fun news CAN break over a holiday weekend. Check out this Times article (by the indefatigable Adam Liptak, a Yale Law School alum): A divided panel of the [exceedingly powerful] United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which will soon decide an important case concerning detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, rejected […]