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The death of a lawyer: A journey from law school to retirement Douglas Halpert. On some mornings, fog shrouds the Ohio River, settling into the river valley like loosely applied caulk. Twenty-three years ago, while on my way to work, my car weaved through the thick, shape-shifting strands as I navigated Kellogg Avenue, which follows the contours of the river toward downtown Cincinnati. It was then that I noticed a cluster of turkey vultures astride a deer on the right side of the road. They clung tenaciously to its carcass as their impossibly large, pitch-black wings flapped in the wind. As m...

Judge with 'salty' personality gets suspension partly for F-bombs, says word is common in his region   Judge F. William Cullins of Montgomery County, Kansas. Photo from the Kansas Judicial Branch. A Kansas judge who dropped F-bombs and refused to “f- - -ing apologize” to one employee subjected to one of his outbursts has been suspended from the bench for “quite troubling” behavior. The Kansas Supreme Court suspended Judge F. William Cullins of Montgomery County, Kansas, in a Feb. 26 opinion, report the Associated Press, the Wichita Eagle and the Legal Profession Blog. The court concl...

Difficulties of pandemic should be acknowledged in law school transcript, students say   Image from Shutterstock.com. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on many student population groups, and law students at the University of Minnesota Law School are asking that it be mentioned in the transcript for the 2020-2021 academic year. Shantal Pai, a third-year law student, drafted a petition for the notation in November, the Minnesota Daily reports. “Being a person of color in law is already difficult, but then to add a pandemic that makes it harder to be a person of color is...

4 more law schools found to be in compliance with ABA's new bar passage standard     In May, the ABA found 10 law schools did not meet an accreditation standard requiring a bar passage rate of at least 75% within two years of graduation; but as of February, six have now demonstrated compliance. Those four join Florida Coastal School of Law and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law, which received compliance notifications in August. “We are very delighted. We worked very hard to accomplish that goal,” Jace C. Gatewood, the dean of Atlanta’s John Marsh...

A suspended Pennsylvania lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to identity theft and related offenses for opening credit cards using the identities of his ex-wife and former mother-in-law.