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During their senior year as computer science majors at the University of Chicago in 2019, Leslie Jones-Dove and Devshi Mehrotra, now both 24, partnered on a class project requiring them to generate a business idea involving technology and develop it throughout the quarter. After deciding they wanted to find a way to address the crisis of underfunded and overworked public defenders, they reached out to the Cook County, Illinois, public defenders office to see how they could potentially be of help...

As an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley, Camila Lopez often watched the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, which is based on the true story of a feisty law clerk taking on Pacific Gas & Electric Co. in a contaminated drinking water case.

Tom Martin graduated from Yale University with a bachelors degree in philosophy in 1993 and started working for an

In February 2020, many people didnt realize—or perhaps acknowledge—the world was entering a global pandemic. But Kellye Testy, president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council, did, and she was thinking the organizations traditional in-person LSAT might not work out.

In the lead-up to Raffi Melkonians first-ever oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court three years ago, the Houston-based appellate lawyer shared on Twitter how he was preparing for his big day. Members of the #AppellateTwitter community from across the country responded with both substantive advice about appearing before the nations highest court and practical tips such as bringing quarters so he could use one of the courts lockers to stow his belongings.

2021 Legal Rebels: Meet 10 legal professionals who are courting change Photos by David Hills Photography/Kathy Anderson Photography/Bob Torrez/ABA Journal When we started the Legal Rebels franchise in 2009, our original objective was to highlight individuals and groups thinking outside the box and transforming the practice of law, often through technology. Turns out, nothing has been more transformative than the COVID-19 pandemic. In the year or so that we’ve been dealing with this disease, w...