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…
Isabel J. Kim is quite the overachiever. She has a lot of the credentials you’d expect for the top of the legal profession — Ivy League degrees (University of Pennsylvania) for both undergrad and law school and a Biglaw job at Dechert. But she’s also an award-winning author — she received the Shirley Jackson award…
Simple typos happen. It’s a fact of life that no matter how many hours however many eyes pore over your documents, at some point a dumb typo will make it through. But when a federal judge manages to brutally cock up a turn of phrase — especially the phrase he intends as his big “gotcha”…
Understanding How AI Can Impact Medical Schools The ability to train incoming university medical students and, eventually, healthcare workers to embrace and interrogate this new technology will better determine its influence and how it can be used in a positive way to promote health outcomes, says Dr. Aditee Narayan, associate dean for curricular affairs…
The wackassery continues in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne. This is perhaps unsurprising in a case where defense counsel actually got picked up on an outstanding warrant at the conclusion of a hearing. But the parties have kept the momentum going by finding new and creative ways to leak…
Over the years, Above the Law has seen some very understandable distancing from former employees. Besides the expected layoffs, there are the occasional for-cause terminations that stem from things like BDSM contracts and work sex with junior associates or potty humor that summons the fire department and police to a tarmac. When these people got…
A thought-provoking discussion is unfolding in the legal operations community regarding one intriguing question: Should legal operations professionals strive to be generalists or specialists? The conversation is timely as the marketplace consolidates and companies grapple with the best way to fill valuable and limited headcount allotments. It also highlights the evolving landscape of legal operations…