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The Indiana Supreme Court has broadened the pool of would-be lawyers eligible to take the bar exam.

A University of Colorado Law School professor who blogged at Inside the Law School Scam has settled his June 2023 lawsuit alleging pay discrimination and retaliation.

A partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges apparently missed an opinion telling his law firm that incorporating an argument by reference can’t be used to exceed word-count limits in briefs, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

We’ve all heard the cliches: You only get one chance to make a first impression, dress for success, and you are what you wear. While these maxims are familiar, they are also true. You are judged in less than seven seconds, so dressing appropriately can help you win or lose your case.

A lawyer representing an armorer accused in the movie set shooting death of a cinematographer is seeking dismissal of charges against his client because of disclosure of texts protected by attorney-client privilege.

A former nonequity partner at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker is not entitled to long-term disability benefits because he failed to show that his chronic fatigue syndrome was so severe that it kept him from performing the regular duties of his job, a federal judge has ruled.

A judge in Humboldt County, California, is facing an ethics complaint that accuses him of calling a public defender “Jewboy” and having “pantomimed something similar to a lap dance” on the wife of a different public defender.

The ABA Techshow 2024 opened at the Hyatt Regency Chicago on Wednesday, drawing legal professionals from around the world.

The former chief financial officer of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has been charged with theft and failure to pay taxes in connection with his alleged embezzlement of more than $1.5 million from the law firm.

Law firms returned to profitability in 2023 as “worked rates” accelerated throughout the year, according to the Law Firm Financial Index report for the fourth quarter of 2023 by the Thomson Reuters Institute.