by HolAdmin | Aug 8, 2026 | American Legal News
This morning started with Senator Lisa Murkowski announcing she will vote against Todd Blanche’s confirmation as Attorney General, leaving Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana as the sole remaining Republican vote standing between Blanche and confirmation… or between...
by HolAdmin | Aug 8, 2026 | American Legal News
When Washington called off its entire July bar exam after the NextGen debut face-planted in a Yakima convention center, the state’s three law school deans and pretty much anyone with a scrap of compassion were all begging for the same answer for the roughly 600...
by HolAdmin | Aug 8, 2026 | American Legal News
After the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara that the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause means exactly what it says, and exactly what every court has agreed it says for over a century, Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum pledging that he would...
by HolAdmin | Aug 8, 2026 | American Legal News
It’s August. Milbank kicked off the 2026 associate salary wars on June 2. Fewer than a handful of firms almost immediately matched the new salary scale. And then… nothing. In late July, Milbank doubled down with special bonuses. This time, the silence was even more...
by HolAdmin | Aug 7, 2026 | American Legal News
Go Big Or Go Home: Biglaw may be the largest single employer of new law school grads, but now associate class sizes are shrinking. Senator Schiff Tried A New Approach With Trump’s Election-Denying Judicial Nominees: He asked about 2008, 2012, and 2016 first. The...
by HolAdmin | Aug 7, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the last justice to serve on the Supreme Court without a law degree? After quitting formal schooling at 14, this man made a clean sweep of the three branches of government (he served in...
