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A suspended West Virginia lawyer who fled the country has pleaded guilty to a felony charge after being accused of overbilling for criminal defense work.

Texas offers makeup bar exam because of deep freeze   Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Following Texas’ freezing February weather, which led to power outages, disrupted water service and more than 20 deaths, according to CNN, the Texas Board of Law Examiners announced Friday that it would offer a makeup bar exam in March in addition to the test that starts Tuesday. The makeup exam, which will be administered March 16 and 17, will not be a uniform bar exam like the February test. Both exams ...

The council of the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar will not be granting a request to push the employment data deadline from March to June.

A former administrative law judge in New York has been censured for punching a legal aid lawyer outside a Manhattan party in October 2016.

Gordon Caplan, the former co-chairman of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, has been suspended from law practice for two years for participating in the college admissions scandal.

Spirit of Excellence honorees strive for diversity and inclusion     Pamela Enslen, the chair of the Spirit of Excellence Awards Committee (top left), congratulates this year’s honorees during the ABA Virtual Midyear Meeting. Clockwise from top center, they are Lori Lightfoot, Barbara Creel, Román Hernández, John Yang and Sherrilyn Ifill. Barbara Creel. Román Hernández. Sherrilyn Ifill. Lori Lightfoot. John Yang. “These outstanding lawyers are the embodiment of excellence in our profe...

Legal recruiters article about lawyers shunned in BigLaw raises eyebrows   Image from Shutterstock.com. Prestigious law firms avoid hiring 23 types of lawyers, according to Harrison Barnes, the managing director and founder of BCG Attorney Search, a legal recruiting firm. The shunned job candidates include government lawyers, lawyers who went to third- and fourth-tier law schools, and lawyers who don’t connect well with interviewers, according to Barnes’ online article, which is making the...

A hacking group has posted files that it claims to be from Jones Day after the law firm was hit by a data breach at one of its vendors.

Ethics Pro-Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood posts addresses of ethics board members after he learns of bar probe     L. Lin Wood Jr. in March 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian via Wikimedia Commons. A lawyer who advanced stolen election claims on behalf of former President Donald Trump is asking an “Army of Patriots” to investigate the State Bar of Georgia’s disciplinary board. In a Telegram post, lawyer L. Lin Wood Jr. said the bar has begun a disciplinary inquiry, and he wants his supporters ...

More minorities are getting hired as associates, but law firm leadership is mostly white and male because of a diversity “bottleneck” and higher rates of minority attrition, according to an ABA survey report released Tuesday.