by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Double Jeopardy Mushroom: The DOJ works out interstate stalking plea deal with Luigi Mangione so his lawyers can claim New York murder charges amount to double jeopardy. Nicole Kidman Is About To Play The Biglaw NDA Machine: A new Kidman-Fanning legal thriller...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which federal judge, impeached by the House and removed by the Senate for his role in a bribery scheme, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives three years later (the very chamber that had...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
“Dark social” can easily conjure images of sinister figures holding clandestine meetings by dead of night. As dramatic as the term sounds, the reality is far more mundane. Dark social is a catchall term for the many digital communication tools that are intended for...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Email is one of the most important ways lawyers communicate with colleagues, adversaries, clients, and pretty much everyone else involved in the legal profession. Most lawyers probably send dozens, if not hundreds, of emails during a typical workday. Because email is...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. That’s a big undertaking because we haven’t looked at renovating how we are structured for 40 or 50 years. We need to move into the 21st century. — Barbara Howard, president of the American Bar Association, in...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Paramount+ has handed out a straight-to-series order for Discretion, an eight-episode legal thriller from A24 with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning starring and executive producing. Kidman plays Sharon, the commanding senior partner. Fanning plays Lenny, the summer...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom earlier today to plead guilty to interstate stalking charges. In the process, he admitted that he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, stating “on the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
A court employee in Connecticut noticed an unusual stretch of white space in a filing. Upon closer inspection, the “nothing” turned out to be 3-point, white-on-white text. It would be invisible to any human casually reading reading the page, but perfectly legible to...
by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
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by HolAdmin | Aug 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Gloria Park always wanted to be a storyteller. She just didn’t expect to find that career in litigation. In this episode, the Susman Godfrey partner talks about growing up in a first-generation immigrant family, choosing law school because it let her “tell stories for...
