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Supreme Court Needs 10 More Judges, says Posner

Appellate Court Judge Richard Posner thinks the Supreme Court is understaffed. It should have 19 members, not nine, he says. […]

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List Targets Venture Capitalists Who Hit On Women

Silicon Valley start-up incubator Y Combinator has emailed a reporting form to entrepreneurs encouraging them to report sexual harassment by […]

Millenial Stares Down Law School Loan

“I have $219,778.08 in law school student loan debt.” Thus begins Kerriann Stout’s essay, in which she describes her method […]

Sleeping Lawyer Merits Retrial, Judge Rules

A U.S. District Judge has ruled that a Pennsylvania businessman deserves a second trial, because his lawyer dozed off during […]

Rape Case Lawyer Says Women Are “Very Good At Lying”

“People can be very good at lying,” defense attorney Steve Farese said in closing arguments of a rape case filed […]

Law School Grapples With AI Threat To Lawyers

Faced with automated systems that keep reaching deeper into the mysteries of lawyering, one law school is offering a short […]

Is It Okay To Correct A Supreme Court Justice’s Pronunciation?

The way Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said “antecedent” was so unusual that Regent University School of Law professor James […]

Female SCOTUS Justices Are Interrupted More Than Men

In 2015, the three female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were interrupted far more often than the men, and […]

DOJ Cites Privilege In Seeking To Block Sally Yates Testimony

Earlier this month the Justice Department told former acting Attorney General Sally Yates that much of her possible testimony before […]

Lawyer’s Punishment Too Lenient, Says Georgia High Court

Georgia’s highest court rejected as too lenient a proposed reprimand for an Atlanta bankruptcy lawyer who, while representing himself during […]

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