By Karen Sloan | August 15, 2017
Thousands of new students are flocking to law campuses across the country this month to kick off their legal careers. It's safe to say that most all of them can legally order a beer at the bar. Not Boca Raton's Aaron Parnas.
By Marcia Coyle | August 3, 2017
In a 2015 campaign event, then-candidate Donald Trump declared Clarence Thomas his favorite U.S. Supreme Court justice. Prominent former Thomas clerks and a judge named to a Trump list of potential high court nominees—Judge William Pryor Jr.—undoubtedly share that sentiment. They recently described Thomas' contributions to the law in a Yale Law Journal forum marking the justice's 25th anniversary.
By Karen Sloan | August 2, 2017
New associate hiring at the nation's largest law firms offered a rare bright spot in an otherwise ho-hum 2016 entry level legal job market, according to the latest analysis by the National Association for Law Placement.
By nationallawjournal | National Law Journal | July 27, 2017
We're taking a peek at law students' summer jobs through the experiences of three students from top law schools.
By Marcia Coyle | July 26, 2017
A comprehensive study of the historical meaning of "emolument" broadly attacks the U.S. Justice Department for using an "inaccurate, unrepresentative and misleading" definition in its opposition to a lawsuit that accuses President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the Constitution.
By Leigh Jones | July 21, 2017
Tapped to serve as President Donald Trump's communications director, Anthony Scaramucci told a group of Harvard law students last year to follow his lead and dial back the bravado.
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 10, 2017
A longtime professor at Howard University School of Law has been ordered to attend sensitivity training and submit future exam questions for administrative review after several students complained about graphic test question involving a Brazilian wax.
By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
Lower courts don't offer much guidance on how to resolve clashes between presidential speech and the U.S. Justice Department's litigation positions, Kate Shaw of Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law found in a forthcoming article. In "Beyond the Bully Pulpit: Presidential Speech in the Courts," Shaw undertook what she called "the first systematic examination of presidential speech in the courts." Shaw talks about her review in this Q&A with senior Washington correspondent Marcia Coyle.
By Karen Sloan | May 17, 2017
The American Bar Association has released detailed data on the employment of the law school class of 2016, and there's both good and bad news.
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