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(Image via Getty) How can you measure a law school’s worth, aside from the employment statistics of its graduates? Another telling sign of its success may be its selectivity. The latest Princeton Review law school rankings are out, and today, we’ll focus on yet another incredibly important ranking for those who are trying to get…
Kamala Harris is a heavy favorite for Democratic Presidential nominee, now that Joe Biden has dropped out of the race and endorsed her. This means we should re-open our short series on the 2024 Presidential candidates and marijuana. I thought we were done with this stuff. We can trot out some deep cuts with Kamala…
Special thanks to Sheridan King, Summer Law Fellow at UNC SOG, for her significant contributions to the research and development of this post. The previous post of this multi-part series on confidential informants (“CI’s”) delved into possible approaches to handling video and audio recordings of confidential informant activity (Parts I and II can be found…
* Republicans hype legal challenges to taking Biden off the ballot… except he’s not on ANY ballots yet since that doesn’t happen until the convention delegates vote. But you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take to a pliant judge in Amarillo. [Politico] * Cravath’s Faiza Saeed explains the value of treating board…
Baseball fans watching last week’s MAGA-dominated Republican National Convention likely would have admired the dexterity with which the party succeeded in pulling off a political version of the “hidden ball trick.” The hidden ball trick is a play in which “a team deceives the opposing team about the location of the ball, usually to tag…
By now, regular readers know that most of my writing presses people to take the measure of the word us. It is an enormously powerful term, but the perennial question is whether it acquires meaning only if it also implies its opposite. I don’t think so; I don’t believe us necessarily implies them, and in…
(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Judge Scrapes Quinn From X Corp: In short, Quinn is Quinn. Arizona Ushers In A Successful* Approach To The Bar: A failing score shouldn’t mean you fail to practice! This Is The List Prospective Students Should Care About: Set yourself up for work/life balance. Some Centuries Are Decades: Remember Blackberries?…
(Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images) Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Vault’s most recent practice area rankings, which Biglaw firm is best in securities/capital markets? Hint: This firm is a New York mainstay and makes the top 10 in the overall Vault rankings. See the answer on…
About two years after launching an investigation into pharmacy benefit managers, the Federal Trade Commission has finally released some of its findings — and they don’t bode well for the prescription drug middlemen. Last week’s interim report explains how concentrated the PBM market has become, allowing the companies to generate outsize profits while patients and…
What was it like to be a lawyer in 2015? That’s the question Seward & Kissel intended to answer for the lawyers of 2140 through a commemorative time capsule. It turns out the contents are almost as alien to the lawyers of 2024. In a world where Biglaw firms can and do explode under the…