On May 10, 2024, South Africa filed a request for the indication of additional provisional measures and the modification of the International Court of Justice (“ICJ” or “Court”)’s prior provisional measures decisions in its case against Israel. (See Samuel Estreicher & Klara Nedrelow, The World Court Lacks Any Plausible Basis for Directing Provisional Measures Against…
Today I’m writing about something that’s not fundraising or nonprofit marketing strategy per se. It’s more about how to have hope – and take action – during times that may feel hopeless. For most of us, we’ve perhaps never been in more perilous times during our lifetimes. For a host of…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Northwestern College, in Illinois, abruptly closed July 6, according to a notice on the for-profit institution’s website. The 122-year-old college said it made the decision after “careful analysis of its current and projected fiscal position.”…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Columbia University has permanently removed three deans from their positions over text messages its president described as “very troubling,” the Ivy League institution announced Monday. In June, Columbia said it was investigating text exchanges among…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nearly one-third of U.S. adults, 32%, said they have very little or no confidence in higher education, up from 23% of respondents who said the same last year, according to new research from Gallup and…
Dechert Is Shutting Down Offices: Not sure why Chicago is getting kicked. Armstrong Teasdale Might Not Like Tidy: Weird reason to fire a DEI chief. They’re Cleaning Up House In Other Ways, Too: Armstrong Teasdale shutters 3 offices. Targeted, Not Named: Not saying this is about Biden, but… Some Would Quit Biglaw To Be A…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Johns Hopkins University‘s medical school will offer free tuition to students who come from families earning less than $300,000 a year following a $1 billion donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Almost two-thirds of the Maryland university’s…
The Supreme Court slammed the door on diversity efforts in higher education admissions in the ironically captioned Students for Fair Admissions case last Term. While an assault on affirmative action and similar policies, the white folks bankrolling the cynical lawsuit wisely couched it in terms of protecting Asian-American students who — they argued — get…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to reporting by Law360, which Biglaw firm argued in front of the Supreme Court the most frequently this Term? Hint: The firm’s attorneys argued in five cases this Term, and were on the winning side twice — including the controversial 6-3 decision that…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Firms are paying more attention to how their bottom line is driven by their strategy, so they’re weeding out whatever doesn’t fit well into their core strategy. — Peter Zeughauser, chair of the law firm consultancy Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Reuters, on…