by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Private Equity’s Law Firm Takeover Isn’t Here, But It Just Got A Lot Closer: The reported $700 million Charlesbank deal for Wood Smith Henning & Berman gives PE a toehold in the industry. Todd Blanche’s Potential Successor Has A Slush Fund Problem Too: The Senate...
by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the...
by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Todd Blanche and Donald Trump (Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images) Would it make sense for law schools to teach the basics of neuroscience? Why not? Or a required course for lawyers to satisfy the CLE competency requirement? Since much of what lawyers do in...
by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
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by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Start With the Question That Matters Most Many lawyers tell me they want to write a book. Fewer actually write one. Fewer still stop before they begin and ask the question that probably matters most: Why do I want to do this? If the answer is money, I would...
by HolAdmin | Aug 21, 2026 | American Legal News
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. With that in mind, an attorney in India sought and secured an adjournment following a surprise bar association loss. Shock due to losing bar election is a novel ground for adjournment. We learn something new every day....
