By Amanda Bronstad | July 18, 2017
President Donald Trump, in court papers, has accused a lawyer and nearly two dozen law professors of lodging “inflammatory, gratuitous and untested facts and assertions” in their objections to the $25 million Trump University settlement.
By KAREN SLOAN | July 17, 2017
Lawyer Serranus Clinton Hastings made his fortune during the California Gold Rush and served as the first chief justice of the state's Supreme Court before giving $100,000—supposedly in gold coins—to establish the University of California's first law school in 1878.
By Karen Sloan | July 13, 2017
The hoped-for law school "Trump Bump" might actually have legs. The number of people who took the LSAT in June climbed nearly 20 percent over last year—the largest percentage increase for any individual LSAT administration since September 2009.
By Cogan Schneier | July 6, 2017
A group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday to stop the Trump administration's rollback of an Obama-era regulation intended to protect student loan borrowers.
By Tony Mauro | June 26, 2017
Siding with a Missouri church in a closely watched First Amendment case, the court held churches can't be excluded from neutral government aid programs. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent, wrote that the decision "profoundly changes" the relationship between church and state.
By Todd Cunningham | June 14, 2017
It would be, as they say in the sports world, a great matchup. College athletics' governing body, the NCAA, has retained noted trial attorney Beth Wilkinson to serve as lead trial counsel in an antitrust case that could redraw the nation's sports landscape.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 13, 2017
One of the claimants in the Trump University case--herself a Florida lawyer--has asked a federal appeals court to unravel the $25 million agreement that settled the matter shortly after Donald Trump was elected president – and she's brought in noted appellate attorney Deepak Gupta to do it.
By Marcia Coyle | May 16, 2017
The consequences of discrimination follow transgender students and their classmates into the legal profession, warned the American Bar Association in an amicus brief that urged a federal appellate court to find that such unfairness violates federal civil rights.
By Leigh Jones | April 25, 2017
With a blog that tracks lawyer misconduct cases nationwide and posts the results of their adjudication, Mike Frisch has a perspective of the legal profession that few share.
By Marcia Coyle | April 25, 2017
Justice Neil Gorsuch may face his first recusal when the justices in May take up a petition that involves—and features prominently—one of his most famous dissents: the case of the burping 13-year-old student.
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