by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Only the Supreme Court could announce a bare minimum ethical guardrail that lower courts have used since the George W. Bush administration and act like it’s a bold blow against the appearance of impropriety. The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will now employ...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Today a federal court rejected the “let’s just ignore the last year” theory advanced by the government in the saga of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abrego Garcia is, of course, the man the Trump administration famously and wrongly deported to an El Salvadoran slave labor camp...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which two Am Law top 30 firms are planning on opening Houston offices this year? Hint: That will leave only 5 firms in the top 30 without an H-Town office. See the answer on the next page. The post...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Jason Miller was all set to be the White House communications director for the first Trump administration when news circulated that he’d had an affair with fellow campaign staffer, Arlene “AJ” Delgado. Delgado has a 7-year-old son that she contends belongs to Miller....
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Getting accepted to a T14 law school can brings lots of prestige. It can also bring on a ton of debt. Student loans aren’t to be taken lightly — the hundreds of thousands of dollars prospective lawyers take out for school can set back other milestone life goals like...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
The post The Votes Are In! Here Are The 15 Legal Tech Startups Selected For The 2026 Startup Alley At ABA TECHSHOW appeared first on Above the Law.
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Sometimes, you don’t have to make every argument in the alternative. For example, the prosecutors in Littlejohn v. State of Texas had a number of avenues to challenge a competency evaluation request from the defendant’s counsel. The defense sought to check the...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
Last week, I presented Part 1 of my written interview with a former litigator turned legal funding founder, Lauren Harrison. That column presented her answer to the first of my three questions and focused on the lessons from her practice as a litigator that help...
by HolAdmin | Feb 18, 2026 | American Legal News
When a Trump-appointed federal judge is telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it cannot simply toss the Constitution in the shredder because compliance is “inconvenient,” you know things have gone seriously off the rails. U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel...
