Good morning everyone! Today is Thursday, March 11, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… The Robert Half Legal Hiring Index reports that employment prospects are improving for the legal industry in the second quarter… Arnold & Porter adds three from Arent Fox… The National Jurist reports that the number of law school faculty has increased [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Speaking at the University of Alabama Law School Tuesday, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts touched on several noteworthy topics, including the tradition of justices of the High Court attending the president’s annual State of the Union address. He called President Obama’s first such address, in which the president criticized the Supreme Court for its ruling on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Tuesday, March 9, and here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… An Illinois judge refuses to dismiss a lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld… Former Greenberg Traurig partner Mark McCombs is charged with stealing $1 million from a local community… Former New Jersey state official Karen J. Kominsky joins Cozen O’Connor… Cravath, Swaine & Moore [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 8, 2010
As reported in the school’s newspaper and by WSFA NBC, Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court will make a public speech on Tuesday at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Roberts will deliver the School of Law’s 2010 Albritton Lecture; he will be the ninth justice since 1996 to lecture at Alabama. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 8, 2010
Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, March 8, and here’s a quick look back at Friday’s news… The Rosen Law Firm files a class action suit against Electronic Game Card,Inc…. Rumors of Chief Justice John Robert’s retirement originates in a law school classroom… Job losses in the legal sector continue to decline… Industrial hog producers Premium Standard Farms are [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 5, 2010
There are three things I miss about the 80’s. 1) The music 2) Judicial Nominees getting a floor vote and 3) News outlets that weren’t so pressed to provide minute by minute updates and took the time to research and verify stories before going to press. Anyone else remember listening to REO Speedwagon on vinyl, or [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
Laurence Tribe, prominent Harvard Law professor and generally considered one of the foremost liberal constitutional law scholars and Supreme Court practitioners in the country (he has appeared before the Supreme Court 34 times), will join the Justice Department next week to serve as a senior counselor for “access to justice”. In this role Tribe will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
Nobody expected her to be a wallflower, but Justice Sotomayor has exceeded expectations when it comes to questioning lawyers during oral arguments. In a report issued by the National Law Journal, Sotomayor came out on top in the number of questions asked so far this term with 146. Chief Justice Roberts followed with [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to Utah’s teachers union on Tuesday by limiting how it can collect contributions from its donors. The high court ruled that the union could not collect donations for its political action committee by automatically deducting money from their members’ paychecks. The precedent was set in a very similar “paycheck protection” [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided in favor of a law barring people convicted of domestic violence crimes from owning guns. In a 7-2 decision, the court said laws against battery do not need to specifically mention domestic violence to fall under the domestic violence gun ban. That ban was enacted in 1996. The case centered [...]
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