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Where the Justices Found Middle Ground in Gay Wedding Cake Case Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer joined Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority ruling. Kagan opened her concurring... Read More Justices Shut Down DOJ's Drive to Punish ACLU Lawyers in Abortion Case The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a lower court ruling that allowed a pregnant immigrant teen to have an abortion,... Read More Justices Rule for Colorado Baker Who Refused to Make a Cake for Gay Wedding "Whatever the confluence of speech and free exercise principles might be in some cases, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s... Read More

Veteran SCOTUS Advocate Allyson Ho Jumps to Gibson Dunn from Morgan Lewis A former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Ho has argued four cases before the high court. Ho... Read More

NEWS Life After Trump: John Dowd, Ty Cobb Dish on Emmet Flood By Ellis Kim Dowd defended new White House attorney Emmet Flood's decision to appear at two congressional oversight briefings last... Read More

LEGAL EDUCATION | NEWS In Commencement Address, Breyer Says He Wants Changes to Clerkship Process By Andrew Denney Breyer's address was the first time since 2014 that a U.S. Supreme Court justice has delivered remarks at a law school... Read More

EMPLOYMENT COMPLIANCE | NEWS Q&A: Lieff Cabraser's Kelly Dermody on Gender-Pay Cases, Arbitration & More By Erin Mulvaney "Going forward, I think there will be renewed efforts to create pay transparency laws, including requiring employers... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | PODCAST Save the Oral Argument! Why It’s Endangered (and Does It Matter?) By Vanessa Blum | Leigh Jones Many judges say oral argument is expensive, time-consuming and rarely changes the outcome of a case. But champions of... Read More Amid Anthem Debate, NFL Players Disclose Top Legal Billers | The American Lawyer While the National Football League seeks to restrict its players from kneeling for the national anthem a new government... Read More Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Responsibility | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer I saw the proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct particularly Rule 8.4(g). This involves... Read More Why No Comment Is a Comment—And It's Not a Good One | Daily Business Review Daily Business Review In this age of 247 news cycles and instantaneous social media coverage directly answering a question to a potentially... Read More

GENERAL COUNSEL AND IN HOUSE COUNSEL | NEWS Behind Sanofi's Response to Roseanne's 'Ambien Tweeting' Excuse

CRIMINAL LAW | COMMENTARY Commentary: SCOTUS Should Enforce Protections for Children During Police Interrogations

CIVIL APPEALS | PODCAST Save the Oral Argument! Why It's Endangered (and Does It Matter)

Quiet Time? Oral Arguments Disappear in Federal Appeals Courts The number and percentage of cases argued at the federal appellate level is fading leaving firms to ask where their... Read More

Trump Lawyers at Jones Day Resist Discovery Demand in DNC Hack Suit “Discovery also threatens to prejudice individuals who have been or will be indicted, by potentially requiring them... Read More

Is Sandra Goldstein the Highest Paid Female Partner in Big Law? Any way you look at it, the Kirkland & Ellis litigation partner is making fat stacks of cash—particularly at a time... Read More

The 2018 Diversity Scorecard We publish the Diversity Scorecard each year to provide a snapshot of where the industry is headed. Diversity has long... Read More Everyones Worried About GDPR, But It May Be the Y2K of Data Privacy The message that lawyers have for companies nervous about GDPR compliance and heavy fines: For now, keep calm and carry... Read More Judge Wood Tells Avenatti He Would Have to Stop Publicity Tour Shortly after the hearing, which saw a June 15 deadline for Cohen's team to finish its privilege review process, Avenatti... Read More

In Commencement Address, Breyer Says He Wants Changes to Clerkship Process Breyer’s address was the first time since 2014 that a U.S. Supreme Court justice has delivered remarks at a law school... Read More

Washington Wrap: Lawyers Ride White-Collar Wave As things get sticky in the capital, white-collar and investigations specialists are in high demand. Read More

Trump Denies 'Inciting' This Kentucky Rally. An Appeals Court Will Hear His Case Jones Day's Michael Carvin, representing Donald Trump, will argue next week in the Sixth Circuit. Central to the case... Read More

Lawyering in Two-Lawyer Households: Balancing Brief-Writing and Bedtime Two-lawyer families should always remember Marty Ginsburg’s wise words: “I have been supportive of my wife since the... Read More

Ethics Claims Don't Stick Against Trump HHS Official in Abortion Controversies The HHS inspector general's office said in a statement this week: "HHS OIG is not undertaking any work related to ORR... Read More

What Clients Really Want From Outside Counsel It doesn't take a magic formula or a lengthy pitch to impress clients, just master these five fundamentals. Read More Trump Denies 'Inciting' This Kentucky Rally. An Appeals Court Will Hear His Case Jones Day's Michael Carvin, representing Donald Trump, will argue next week in the Sixth Circuit. Central to the case... Read More

Two FTC Lawyers Win Liability Protection for Roles Leading Data-Breach Case The two FTC lawyers did not violate rights of LabMD's chief-executive, the D.C. Circuit said Friday, because the agency's... Read More