by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
Discovery is the part of litigation everyone claims to hate, until they lose a case because of it. Young lawyers will tell you discovery is “paperwork.” Senior lawyers will sigh and call it “a grind.” Judges will roll their eyes and treat it like an administrative...
by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
Having a JD does a lot of heavy lifting, but if you’re a student who wants to have a little extra distinction on your resume, it makes sense to tack on a certificate. Tax, corporate, and business law are the traditional options, but as law schools rush to incorporate...
by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
Louisiana Solicitor General and former Alito clerk Ben Aguiñaga has a new piece exploding the widespread “media smear” of Justice Samuel Alito as “unhappy,” “aggrieved,” and “wronged.” He doesn’t link to anything — why bring receipts when calling out a supposedly vast...
by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We were kind of toying with wording at the nine-month mark, saying depending on how collections are, if you think it would be a good year or a great year, and I think it came out to be a very good year for the...
by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
Federal Judge Patrick Schiltz may have called off the immediate showdown with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but no one should mistake that procedural pause for a truce. As previously reported, the George W. Bush–appointed judge has been increasingly exasperated...
by HolAdmin | Jan 30, 2026 | American Legal News
The docket just got personal for one federal judge — because the only thing higher than the federal bench was allegedly his blood-alcohol level. Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the Eastern District of Michigan is facing misdemeanor DUI charges after a fall crash that...
