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Friday, December 24, 2021

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2 law schools found to be out compliance with ABA's bar passage standard

Why this personal injury firm set up shop in the metaverse

Roberts' reference to memos of Blackmun on Roe v. Wade raises questions about SCOTUS justices' private papers

Judge slams Davis Wright for failing to mention settled, adverse caselaw, orders $40K in sanctions

Is the law library a thing of the past for law firms?

FROM THE DECEMBER-JANUARY 2021-'22 MAGAZINE

ABA President Reginald Turner wants his term to focus on the organization's four goals

Reginald Turner has aspired to greater leadership within the ABA since joining the association as a law student and attending his first annual meeting 35 years ago. He assumed his highest role to date in the ABA at the close of the annual meeting in August.

This BigLaw firm is the first to allow its lawyers to work from home indefinitely

Supreme Court sets special hearing on vaccine mandates for larger workplaces, health workers

2 law firms announce separate mergers effective Jan. 1

'Constitutional sheriffs' contend they have the power to determine what the law is

Several law schools revert to online classes as COVID-19 infections surge

Scores of lawyers work to gain temporary legal status for 250 female judges in Afghanistan

UIC law prof must receive online diversity training, coaching before classroom return, letter says

Wife of Marvel chairman sues Kasowitz Benson for alleged 'salacious and outrageous' litigation

Kramer Levin lawyers are sanctioned for 'vitriolic and unsubstantiated' anti-Semitism claims

Federal magistrate judge orders lawyers to 'not impugn Chinese culture' in future depositions

Lawyer is fined after her process server delivers subpoena to another attorney during murder-trial break

Mandatory law leads to 110-year sentence for fatal crash; DA moves for reconsideration

What elite athletes like Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles can teach lawyers about performance anxiety

The Modern Law Library

In 'All Her Little Secrets,' the death of an attorney's boss could bring her secrets to light

In her debut novel, "All Her Little Secrets," attorney Wanda M. Morris has written a legal thriller full of corporate intrigue and small-town secrets. Morris takes readers inside Atlanta boardrooms and back into the past of her heroine, Ellice Littlejohn.

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