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ABA Proposes New Class Requirements To Help Students: Back in my day, we just had the final! Elon Musk Can’t Even Copy With AI: His unveiled AI is laughably bad. Who Needs Diversity When You Could Have Access!: What does that mean? Good question! Take A Breather & Get Dragged: I get the feeling the…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day! Which two Supreme Court justices have appeared on U.S. currency? Hint: Neither bill is currently in circulation, but justices have appeared on the $500 and $10,000 bill. See the answer on the next page. Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law,…
It’s kind of a big deal to combine ventures as solo lawyers into a real, live small law firm. Having been used to working on your own and calling all the shots — you’ve now got to care about what another person thinks! (Honestly, it’s a wonder that any small firms even exist.) But, it…
(Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images) This morning, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg signaled in a letter to Justice Juan Merchan that the state does not object to a delay in sentencing for Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up the 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. The letter was…
Check out all of our diversity! I mean… access. Despite the challenges of acknowledging and acting on the country’s deliberate systemic inequality after the SFFA decision, it seemed like the ABA was still willing to tread potentially litigious waters. Earlier this year, they planned to diversify what counted as diversity — not perfect by any…
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Probably one of the most sustaining impacts of this case is about the power of culture. The popular interpretation of this case is pretty far removed from kind of serious issues of how our system operates. Do tort awards…
(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Suppose the Democrats chose as their candidate for president a person who had five different children by three different partners. Suppose that person were a Black woman. Suppose that person were named Kamala Harris. I can only imagine the Republicans’ reaction: “How could Democrats have nominated that…
(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Elon Musk facies himself at the cutting edge of every technological advance, so obviously he had to get into the generative AI game. It’s a space that he attempted to enter as an OpenAI investor. But like the other kind of space Musk tries to enter, that blew up soon…
Imagine, if you will, a small backwater town into which one day a large shiny object falls from the sky and lands dead center on the main street of the town’s modest commercial center. The object is egg shaped, suggesting its potential for something to hatch from it, and appears to be metallic, but of…
It’s widely accepted that students won’t learn how to be lawyers just by virtue of going to law school, but the American Bar Association (ABA) is now cracking down on law schools to make sure students learn from their classes, period. As noted by Reuters, the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and…