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Tempers Flare at Russia Hearing Over Prosecutor, Defense Phone Call NEWS Tempers Flare at Russia Hearing Over Prosecutor, Defense Phone Call By C. Ryan Barber The episode underscored the heated nature of the special counsel's case against Concord Management and Consulting, which... Read More

Top Law Schools Ask Firms to Disclose Summer Associate Arbitration Agreements Yale Law School and 13 other top law schools are issuing a survey to law firms asking them to disclose whether or not... Read More

LITIGATION FUNDING | NEWS What Are People Saying About Senate's New Lit Funding Bill? By Amanda Bronstad The bill would require disclosure of third-party litigation funding in class actions and multidistrict litigation within... Read More

Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito Stand Together, Anew, Against a Criminal Defendant

Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito Stand Together, Anew, Against a Criminal Defendant Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. have found common ground in recent dissents, but it's still... Read More

Skadden's Michael Scudder Confirmed to 7th Circuit, Succeeding Posner

Skadden's Michael Scudder Confirmed to 7th Circuit, Succeeding Posner Michael Scudder, whose practice focused on tax-related matters, accounting and white-collar disputes, was the Trump... Read More

Russian Business Entity Rips Mueller's Charges as 'Make-Believe'

ELECTION AND POLITICAL LAW | NEWS Russian Business Entity Rips Mueller's Charges as 'Make-Believe' By C. Ryan Barber Reed Smith, representing the Russian entity Concord Management and Consulting, said in a new court filing: "A foreign... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS US Supreme Court, Divided, Buys Into Wider Legalized Sports Betting By Tony Mauro The justices in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association found the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection... Read More

This Undocumented Immigrant Just Graduated Law School. Now She Wants to Change Who Can Practice Law Quinnipiac University School of Law graduate Denia Perez spoke at a public hearing Monday supporting amending the Connecticut... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Morgan Lewis Adds DOJ Healthcare, Consumer Antitrust Pro By Ryan Lovelace Ryan Kantor, who was an assistant chief of the health care and consumer products section in the Antitrust Division,... Read More

LITIGATION FUNDING | NEWS Study Finds Judges Mostly Reject Discovery Requests for Litigation Funding Documents By Ben Hancock The conclusion of the study—that judges rarely grant discovery into litigation funding documents—helps explain... Read Mor

Judicial Conduct Board Investigating Phila. Family Court Judge Younge | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer The state Judicial Conduct Board has launched an investigation into Philadelphia Family Court Judge Lyris F. Younge's... Read More

Iranian Hostage's Daughter Says Iran Deal Discussions Should Include Fate of Prisoners | New York Law Journal New York Law Journal We have been told repeatedly that Iran is a country of laws and the Iranian judiciary is scrupulous in its adherence... Read More

A Kirkland & Ellis Law School? Crystal Ball Gazing on the Future of Legal Ed | Law.com New York Law Journal What blue-sky thinking about the future of legal education might tell us about the relationship between Big Law and... Read More

6 Cases We're Watching From the Supreme Court's Latest Conference

CIVIL RIGHTS | NEWS 6 Cases We're Watching From the Supreme Court's Latest Conference By Marcia Coyle A "spoofing" challenge under Dodd-Frank. GM fights a damages-only retrial. Guns are back. These are some of the cases... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Big Law on the Ballot; Michael Cohen's Shadow; Return of Sally Yates By Ryan Lovelace Former Orrick chair Ralph Baxter won't be representing West Virginia constituents in Congress next year. Will his Big... Read More

These Trailblazing Women Lawyers Changed Society By Lisa Helem Jill Norgren, author of "Stories From Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law," recently presented her book culled... Read More

ABA Moves Forward With Plan to End Law School Admission Test Requirement The decision paves the way for schools nationwide to more easily use the GRE and other tests besides the Law School... Read More Supreme Court Correctly Balanced Constitutional Provisions in Morris County Church Case | New Jersey Law Journal Many of us like Justice Sotomayor were concerned that our historic churchstate separation had been badly damaged by... Read More Proud to Have Rutgers as Our State Law School | New Jersey Law Journal New Jersey should be proud of the accomplishments of the law school of Rutgers our state university. Read More Iranian Hostage's Daughter Says Iran Deal Discussions Should Include Fate of Prisoners | New York Law Journal New York Law Journal We have been told repeatedly that Iran is a country of laws and the Iranian judiciary is scrupulous in its adherence... Read More

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Giuliani Resigns From Greenberg Traurig for 'All Consuming' Trump Role After taking an unusual unpaid leave from the firm to represent the president, Rudy Giuliani and Greenberg Traurig have... Read More

Sally Yates Launches Investigations Practice as King & Spalding Partner The former DOJ official and hero to Trump critics said she’s ready to return to practicing law. “I know other people... Read More

Kagan Says She'll 'Take Into Account' Whether Judges Follow New Clerk Hiring Plan U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind the new law clerk hiring plan by saying she... Read More

I Saw You Kick Him: Greenspoon Marder Partner Intervenes in Alleged Police Abuse Deborah Baker-Egozi said she was on her way from court Wednesday when she saw a law enforcement officer assault a young... Read More

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