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Morning Docket: 01.13.25

Above The Law

* Will the rest of the Big 4 follow KPMG's lead into legal services? American Lawyer ] * Associates getting squeezed by new firm hiring model. [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Alina Habba may just like guys with sexual misconduct allegations swirling over them. Yahoo ] * New York joining NextGen bar exam train in 2028.

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Why Regulatory Reform Is Desperately Needed in the U.S.

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He serves on his judicial district committee to conduct lawyer fitness interviews and no one in their multi-county judicial district has taken the bar exam in the past three years. In 2012, South Dakota was one of the first states to tackle the problem of legal deserts. Access to legal services is going down.

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Legal Ethics Roundup: So Many Legal Ethics Headlines, Engaging In Democracy, Ethics Jobs & More

Above The Law

The move allows KPMG to greatly expand its legal offerings, for example, into services such as drafting and updating contracts and reconciling legal materials in merger-and-acquisition deals. You can disagree with it, within the bounds of legal ethics. Read more and watch Kennedys admonition to nominees here.

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