by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Trump Judges Blow Off Justices: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to impose Missouri’s illegal gerrymander. Trump appointed district judge decided to go ahead and do it anyway. While We’re On That Topic…: Can you remember the civil procedure doctrine at issue in...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Missouri’s state supreme court barred the state from implementing the Republican legislature’s new gerrymandered maps for this November’s election on state constitutional grounds. After an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court — the only appeal available per 28 U.S.C. §...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
In recent years, due to the high cost of new and used cars, some people have been looking into importing cars from overseas. These grey-market imports have attracted enthusiasts and drivers who want to try something different at a comparable cost. Under current law,...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
What happens when clients really have command of their data? In Part I of this series, I explored how the reimagined law department can redefine who does legal work and how it gets done, while ensuring its institutional knowledge is accessible to AI. The next question...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign. This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
On Tuesday afternoon, Justice Brett Kavanaugh did something that in almost any other timeline but this current hellscape would be unremarkable. Acting as circuit justice for the Eighth Circuit, he denied Missouri’s emergency bid to reinstate the congressional...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
With AI hallucinations dominating the legal ethics headlines for years now, it’s nice to see lawyers landing in hot water without having to rely on technology. For example, Holland & Knight got itself removed from a case in Rhode Island after accidentally putting...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
For decades, the legal industry adhered to a straightforward division of labor: law schools taught doctrine and law firms taught newly minted lawyers how to actually do their jobs. It wasn’t necessarily the most efficient approach. Law schools struggled to find much...
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Last year, Matthew Exton spotted his ex-wife and her family at a local restaurant. After sending a drink to their table and spitting at them on his way out, the now-former Toledo-area attorney returned with a gun and attempted to shoot his ex at point blank range....
by HolAdmin | Sep 10, 2026 | American Legal News
A judicial ethics panel has looked at the increasingly common arrangement of a law student cashing a Biglaw check while working, unpaid, inside a judge’s chambers and decided it is all perfectly fine. In the race to lock up talent earlier and earlier, Biglaw firms...
