(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Chicago is brimming with business opportunities for Biglaw firms, and it’s proving to be quite the “ultra-competitive market.” Despite its sports teams’ records, it’s a winning city for the legal profession. But which firm is right for you? Thanks to Vault’s recently released regional rankings, we now know which…
“All the providers who are recruiting understand that probably your most valuable recruiting device is word-of-mouth from your existing students, and an absence of that for three or four years has been challenging,” founder of GoAbroad Troy Peden told The PIE News. “Ten years ago, we did a survey of 100 students studying abroad in…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. ___; 2024 WL 3074423 (June 21, 2024) (Kagan, J.). The case settled a lingering question in Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause jurisprudence: Does the Confrontation Clause permit substitute analyst testimony? Courts have been split on the question, with North Carolina and Arizona among the jurisdictions…
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Congratulations to Hunter Biden! Apparently, special counsels are illegal now, and so all his criminal cases must be dismissed immediately. What a lucky day for the president’s son! Just kidding! Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell wasn’t crazy enough to argue before a US District judge that when 28 U.S. Code…
A delegation of 26 vice chancellors from Indian universities met with their Spanish counterparts for the signing ceremony to encourage joint research projects and faculty and student exchange programs. “On the first day of the visit, the delegates visited The Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona and exchanged ideas in collaboration with…
Aileen Cannon Judge Aileen Cannon just dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump, providing the former president a real shot in the arm heading into the Republican National Convention. In dispensing with the case, Cannon ruled that the appointment of a special counsel violates the appointments clause of the Constitution, a position thoroughly and…
Students will have access to HEX’s degree accelerator platform, will make $1,200 scholarships available to the first 100 students to sign up to celebrate its launch. The decision to unveil the program comes as the Albanese administration moved to more than double the student visa fees for students wishing to study in Australia. “In an…
Published: 7/15/2024 Reading Time: 4 minutes AI has made a rapid foray into the higher education world in the past few years, evoking a spectrum of reactions among students and faculty that range from intense scrutiny to frenzied excitement and everything in-between. Questions remain on many campuses as to whether — or more likely, how…
Perhaps the holy grail for law firms is the development of effective, automated workflows to manage the rote business tasks that nobody really wants to do. It’s a way to delegate more work for attorneys while also freeing up and up-skilling law firm staff. If you can pull it off as a law firm manager,…
What is going on at Walgreens? If you’re someone who has followed the healthcare stock market over the past few years, there’s a good chance you have asked that question. The Illinois-based pharmacy giant’s stock price has decreased by 80% in the past five years — currently trading at about $11 per share, compared to…