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10 Tips on preparing for law school

SimplyLawJobs

Many students start thinking about their career choices while they are still at school. If you’re looking for admission to a law school, you better start preparing early. While you can come from any background in your pre-law years, most people come from a liberal arts background.

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Washington State Faces Defense Attorney Shortages

The Crime Report

The county’s Office of Public Defense has a waiting list of around 80 felony cases, and this is the third month without any qualified attorneys to assign to new cases. Judges also have the power to assign private law firm attorneys, with the counties having to foot the bill.

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

JonathanTurley

million were sent to a law firm and another firm associated with Hunter Biden. Rather than prosecuting Hunter Biden for a felony in lying on a federal gun form, it is sending him into a diversion program due to an addiction that he says he was able to break years ago. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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J. Craig Williams on New Podcast ‘In Dispute: 10 Trials That Changed History’ and Its Literary Origin

LegalTalkNetwork

“ The podcast miniseries and book each give a front-row seat to non-lawyers who didn’t have three years of law school professors, days of writing trying to pass bar exams, and forty years of trying cases in the trenches. “ Hear the trailer: 5. John Adams.

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Will You Survive? How Trump’s Upheaval is Reshaping Your Legal Career”

The Estrin Report

From judicial appointments to executive orders directly targeting law firms, to ramifications of tariff wars, the profession is experiencing a seismic shift. Trump initiated a series of aggressive actions against the legal community, with an expanding list of targeted law firms. It is without precedent.

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