by HolAdmin | May 29, 2025 | American Legal News
How could a law student go about building peace? You could graduate and snag a Biglaw gig and funnel most of the money to direct action organizations that feed and help folks get out of poverty. You could host negotiation or mediation clinics that foster conflict...
by HolAdmin | May 29, 2025 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Without the stiff competition of the talent wars to push it along, the market is not moving as quickly to follow the few big firms who have announced first-year pay increases as we saw in the last cycle. —...
by HolAdmin | May 29, 2025 | American Legal News
Skadden and the rest of the order of obsequiousness — that is, the nine Biglaw firms that capitulated to Donald Trump’s bullying to get out from under (or avoid entirely) unconstitutional Executive Orders designed to extract a harsh financial penalty from the firms —...
by HolAdmin | May 29, 2025 | American Legal News
As Supreme Court season hits fever pitch, we’re joined by Professor Leah Litman, author of Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes, to discuss the nightmare we’re facing. Elena Kagan took the opportunity to...
by HolAdmin | May 29, 2025 | American Legal News
To prepare for cases in years past, countless billable hours were spent on transcript analysis while associates tediously combed through banker boxes full of court documents for days, if not weeks. Some of that process was streamlined in recent years as AI-powered...