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Michigan Judge Declares She Will Preside Over Planned Parenthood Case Despite Her Prior Representation and Donations

JonathanTurley

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.

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Women of Legal Tech: Julie Saltman

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She is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Law School. We’re currently piloting our software with law firms and financial firms. I think legal tech, much like litigation where I began my career, is primarily about people.

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ABA TECHSHOW 2020

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We also learned some new things about “ deepfakes ” and how that could affect legal practice, why litigation finance is about to get really interesting, how ODR is closing one part of the A2J gap, and why virtual reality may become a real staple in courts very soon. Forecast-Alytics: Understanding Litigation Analytics for Case Evaluation.

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“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Some Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

JonathanTurley

It would then depend on the Maine litigation to bring the matter back to the Court. Colorado and, now, Maine remain outliers after the Michigan Supreme Court rejected another disqualification effort in that state. At the time, another rising star in Republican legal circles was getting her start as a young law firm associate.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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She wrote in Lazy B that she “felt poorly prepared compared to the other freshmen,” but she was admitted to a program that allowed her to start law school at Stanford in her senior year, as one of only four women in her class. One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary.

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Profile of a potential nominee: J. Michelle Childs

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Instead, she has spent her career in her home state of South Carolina, where she worked at one of the state’s top law firms and then served in two state government agencies. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who graduated from Rhodes College and Notre Dame Law School, is the other.) Early life and education.