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WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Sep 20, 2024 at 11:10 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Friday, Sept. 20, SCOTUSblog (Sep. 20, 2024, 11:10 AM),…
The justices clearly are emotional actors and so Supreme Court opinions are not even nearly devoid of emotional language. It is also clear that the justices’ relative use of emotional language varies quite a bit, both between cases and between justices. The post Are The Supreme Court Justices’ Opinions Emotionally Charged And Does It Matter?…
From the all-trolling-all-the-time-act dept The post Congress Poised To Bring Back Unfettered Patent Trolling appeared first on Above the Law. #Congress #Poised #Bring #Unfettered #Patent #Trolling
* Paul Weiss offers professional attire stipend to vacation scheme interns. It would be better if they’d hired Nina Garcia and the Twitter Workwear Guy as consultants but this is a start. [LegalCheek] * For the Civil Procedure buffs, hot minimum contacts precedent just dropped. [Reuters] * Law professor who admits to sleeping with 1Ls…
Regular readers know that I am interested in the criminal prosecution of Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving 25 years in federal prison for fraudulent activity related to his operation of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. I reviewed Michael Lewis’s book about Bankman-Fried and have posted several times about the case. There are now several new…
Well, they already knew where the bathrooms were when they started as Supreme Court justices. The post Clerkships Are Certainly One Good Way To Start An Elite Legal Career appeared first on Above the Law. #Clerkships #Certainly #Good #Start #Elite #Legal #Career
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How Did You Get This Number?: Female law professors and students keep getting creepy messages from salty loser. The Order Of Things: California needs to focus on procedure before they replace the bar. He Doth Compliment Too Much: Lawyer gets accused of inflating his Avvo reviews. Move Over, Florida Man!: Alaskan dude indicted over Supreme…
Zuva, the company that spun off from AI contract review pioneer Kira when it was acquired by Litera in 2021, today released its own AI contract review tool, Zuva Analyze, which it says will enable in-house legal teams to review contracts 2-3 times faster than reviewing them manually. Developed by the same team that originally…
This firm is still committed to awarding equity partnerships to hardworking senior associates. The post A Nonequity Partnership Tier Won’t Impact The Number Of New Equity Partners At This Biglaw Firm appeared first on Above the Law. #Nonequity #Partnership #Tier #Wont #Impact #Number #Equity #Partners #Biglaw #Firm