About 15 years ago, 2U launched its first collaborative degree program with a client, the University of Southern California’s education school. The company has gone on to help launch and manage 180 other degree programs, while building out other services to assist universities entering the online education market. In 2021, it added another revenue engine…
* Judge Juan Merchan just can’t quit Donald Trump. [The Hill] * Kaplan’s deal with California to take over the bar exam is a go. [Law.com] * If a firm employs a secret bank account, things are probably not on the up-and-up. [Bloomberg Law] * Judge Reed O’Connor recuses himself from Elon Musk’s case against…
British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario have described how they plan to distribute their PALs, which have been introduced as a way to control the federal cap on international students. The former three provinces have declared how many letters they have been given by central government. The only other figures available are for New…
* Venable launching deepfake practice. [Variety] * Dentons hires EY exec as new CEO as the line between Biglaw and the Big 4 continues to blur. [Going Concern] * Fox News hires new general counsel to preside over the next wave of election-related defamation suits. [Corporate Counsel] * “After Supreme Court limits prosecutors fighting corruption,…
Cheers To A ‘Kool’ Summer!: Biglaw firm shares the wealth with their associates. Lil Woody Makes A Laugh Out Of The YSL Trial: All jokes aside, there needs to be a new judge. The Biggest Firms In The Apple: Where does your firm rank on the list? Please Please Please: Steve Bannon makes a big…
A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI. The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, was…
The need for social equity in cannabis programs As adult-use cannabis legalization sweeps across the country and America confronts the toll of previous, draconian cannabis policies, one of the best attempts to right abject wrongs is social equity programs within state cannabis industries. Unfortunately though, social equity programs are easily exploited and “loopholed.” Licenses have…
Oregon State University’s Learning Innovation Center (LINC), a four-story classroom building, opened its doors in fall 2015. The shared campus classroom seats 2,300 students across 15 general-use spaces, with an additional 640 informal seats on the periphery for individual and group work. Its classrooms provide a diversity of designs that include both traditional and innovative…
[screaming at my mute laptop screen]: WHO GOT TO YOU This isn’t the first time I’ve felt this way. In 2022, the Fifth Circuit got a decision very right. It said it was very fucking definitely a rights violation to arrest a journalist for publishing information she had received from a law enforcement source. Rather…
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