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Jenna Ellis (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) Jenna Ellis may be too dumb to work in traffic court. She may be too incompetent to be fired for cause. She may be too stupid to know that trailing after a drunk, flatulent Rudy Giuliani is a bad career move. And she may be too credulous to…

(Photo by Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Advertisers have fled Twitter ever since Elon Musk changed its name to “X” and watched n-word usage crank up to 11. As it turns out, corporate America is squeamish about throwing millions toward a bulletin board that can’t guarantee their brand doesn’t end up plastered next to Nazi…

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I do think we’ve seen an uptick in claims coming from attorneys who historically may have made progress toward partner, but in the more competitive legal industry where you often have to generate millions of dollars in a large law firm, they’re not getting…

Y’all seeing this? (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Missouri Attorney General Andy Bailey is the thirstiest public official in the country. If he’s not hanging out with rightwing podcasters, he’s tweeting love notes to Elon Musk. If he’s not threatening Target for making child-sized Pride t-shirts, he’s suing the Biden administration over woke school…

Think of a search engine. Google, right? Okay, now think of another one. Take a moment. Early users of the internet might remember AskJeeves (later shortened to Ask). The spiteful among you may know of Bing — many people think the name is actually short for Because It’s Not Google. Those people are wrong, but…

(Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) Track and field athlete Lizzie Bird may be representing Great Britain in the 2024 Olympic Games, but her law school education is all American. Bird graduated from Colorado Law this past December, took — and passed — the bar exam in February, all while training for her second Olympic Games….

Another day, another ranking for lawyers to ogle in a search for meaning as they attempt to get through the day’s billables. Such is the life of a Biglaw attorney, always on the hunt for confirmation that their firm is the best firm, the one that’s hitting all of its essential metrics year after year….

The ABA House of Delegates just passed a resolution urging state and local governments to adopt laws and policies to prohibit police from lying to juveniles — about either facts or pledges of leniency — to extract confessions. The Resolution, sponsored by the Criminal Justice Section and basic common sense, draws upon research showing that…

(800) 888-8888. A whole lot of you hummed that when you read it. The toll-free number for the now splintered Cellino & Barnes firm might be the most powerful lawyer jingle of all time. It rang out from TV sets for decades. Everyone within its reach could instantly identify the firm from the first few…