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Justice Barrett remains the best of all Trump’s appointees. She’s the most serious thinker of the three justices on the Court– and her writing talent is exponentially better than Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. — Anthony Michael Kreis (@AnthonyMKreis) June 26, 2024 —Law professor Anthony Michael Kreis opining on the relative strengths of Donald Trump’s additions to…
When it comes to graduate school, law isn’t known for being cheap. And if the cost isn’t enough, accepted students often have to move long distances to attend their classes in person. COVID shocked our systems and prompted many schools to move their lessons to virtual classrooms, but there was a general understanding that this…
At some point in your life — likely the snippy preteen/teenage years — you undoubtedly heard the phrase, it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. And that’s very much the lesson from Brown Rudnick partner Gerard Cicero’s attempt to increase his billing rate in a bankruptcy case from $1000 to $1500. That…
I appeared in bankruptcy court exactly one time. Many years ago, the firm I worked for extended credit enough to get through trial, to the tune of about $40,000 worth of legal fees, to a client who then promptly filed for bankruptcy. Knowing that unsecured legal debts were exactly the kind of thing bankruptcy was…
Is it possible that post-Dobbs Supreme Court jurisprudence on abortion isn’t the absolute worst? Bloomberg Law is reporting that earlier today, the decision in Moyle v. United States, Idaho v. United States was inadvertently published on the Supreme Court’s website. The Supreme Court just can’t help but leak abortion cases, can it? The case is…
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images… with slight edit) Rewriting the fabric of constitutional order is a tough job. The Supreme Court’s Term is supposed to be over already and yet they’re still churning out opinions late into June. Sure they’re public employees, but don’t you wish you could slip them a little something under the…
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Jun 26, 2024 at 1:55 pm (Katie Barlow) Bloomberg News has reported that the Supreme Court accidentally posted an opinion on the website indicating that the justices are poised to allow emergency abortions to go forward in Idaho. The court’s Public Information Office has indicated that the opinion in…
Over the past year or so, many commentators in and out of the legal profession have discussed how the new boom in artificial intelligence will impact the legal industry. Some believe that certain tasks now handled by attorneys will be completed by artificial intelligence in the future, and jobs may be eliminated as a result…
* Law firms are leading the charge in office leasing, but the usage of all that new space is evolving in a post-pandemic world. [Globest] * Steve Bannon’s Supreme Court bid may be stupid, but that’s not stopping Mike Johnson from hopping on board. [The Hill] * Bankruptcy judge faces a mess of trouble after…
Going to law school can be many things: a chance to move far away, expensive, or even a father-son bonding opportunity. But ultimately, it’s an investment. When you’re choosing which school to saddle yourself with debt over, weighing the pros and cons of each can be complicated if you don’t know how to sort your…