Attorney at Work
MAY 19, 2025
Camille Stell | Compensation is one of the most powerful levers a firm has to shape behavior, reward success and signal its values. The post Legal Compensation Strategies: From Market Analysis to Fair Pay Practices appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
EvidenceProf Blog
MAY 19, 2025
With an Allen charge, a judge tells jurors to continue deliberating after they're deadlocked. This charge are typically given under a specific circumstance: The jury sends the judge a note indicating that they're deadlocked, prompting the judge to give a.
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JURIST
MAY 19, 2025
The UN expressed criticism of the Maldives Parliament’s dismissal of two judges from the Supreme Court on Monday, claiming that the government’s recent anti-corruption investigations targeted at Supreme Court judges threaten the independence of the judiciary. The UN cited the timing of the investigations that led to the dismissal of judges Azmiralda and Mahaz, which commenced soon after a constitutional challenge was launched against the government, as evidence that the investigation
HowAppealing
MAY 19, 2025
“Milbank Lawyer Wins Supreme Court Case After Switching Firms; Standard for evaluating use of deadly force questioned; Governments continued support unclear after inauguration”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.
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Get ready to master the art and science of trial preparation organization that top attorneys rely on in this exclusive webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will walk through proven systems for creating comprehensive trial notebooks and binders that transform scattered case materials into powerful litigation tools. Learning Objectives: Strategic Organization 📊 Learn the essential sections every trial notebook needs and how to structure them for maximum clarity and acce
JURIST
MAY 19, 2025
A Kenyan human rights lawyer was expelled from Tanzania on Sunday following her attempt to attend the trial of an opposition figure facing treason charges. Martha Karua, a lawyer, former minister of justice, and former presidential candidate of Kenya, was initially detained before being deported from the airport in Dar Es Salaam, the countrys largest city.
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Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
Suits promotional image If you’ve ever watched Suits and thought, “I should’ve faked my way into this soul-sucking lawyer gig and avoided all the crushing law school debt,” rest assured that, no, you should not have. If you base your life on Suits , you literally have a better chance of becoming a British royal than having a successful legal career, an absolutely insane yet nonetheless accurate statement.
HowAppealing
MAY 19, 2025
“Indicted Supreme Court lawyer Goldstein asks judge to toss US tax charges”: Mike Scarcella of Reuters has this report.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
Late last week, news broke that a group of former associates who resigned over their Biglaw firms’ deals to ingratiate Donald Trump with millions of dollars’ worth of pro bono payola had launched a new campaign targeting partners on their former firms’ management committees. Do partners who have signed on to p**s-poor deals with the Trump administration deserve to be on corporate, industry, and nonprofit boards?
HowAppealing
MAY 19, 2025
“Judicial Notice (05.18.25): The Other Ninth Circus; A Biglaw AI debacle, young(ish) stars of the SCOTUS bar, a Florida judge behaving badly, and Wachtell Liptons latest billion-dollar deals.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
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Why does it take 20-40 hrs. to create a compliant legal brief? TypeLaw analyzed 10,000+ briefs to determine the anatomy of the average brief—how many words, paragraphs, citations to the record, and more. See the research results in this infographic.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
Earlier this month, McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel made the surprise announcement that they’d been in merger talks , noting that they were finalizing a transformative combination. The merged firm would have more than 1,650 lawyers and a combined revenue of more than $2.8 billion, which would likely land it in the Am Law Top 20.
HowAppealing
MAY 19, 2025
“152. Non-Party Relief and Judicial Supremacy: Thursday’s birthright citizenship oral argument hits at least somewhat different after and in light of Friday’s Alien Enemies Act ruling — in which the Court. provided relief to non-parties.” Steve Vladeck has this post at his “One First” Substack site.
Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regional Director Marc Fagel discusses the recent wholesale elimination of the regional director position, the responsibilities of the job itself and why discarding this role highlights how the appearance of creating a more efficient agency may limit the SEC's effectiveness.
HowAppealing
MAY 19, 2025
“Bove, Top Justice Dept. Official, Is Considered for Circuit Court Nomination; Emil Bove III has emerged as a top contender to fill a vacancy on the appeals court covering Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, people familiar with the matter said”: Glenn Thrush and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have this report.
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CARET Legal
MAY 19, 2025
Your firm can reduce scheduling headaches and streamline workflowsfreeing your team to focus on building stronger cases and delivering excellent client outcomes. If your firm is relying on manual scheduling, disconnected systems, or spreadsheets to manage important litigation deadlines, the chances of human error are high. The good news? Theres a better way.
LegalSifter
MAY 19, 2025
If youve spent enough time negotiating contracts, you know the feeling: dj vu over the same terms, last-minute escalations, misaligned expectations. The question isn't whether your organization needs a contract playbook, its why you havent built or refreshed one yet.
iHire
MAY 19, 2025
Struggling to fill roles fast? Watch this webinar to discover how to build and maintain a talent pipeline that keeps qualified candidates at your fingertips.
Patently O
MAY 19, 2025
by Dennis Crouch Power2B, Inc. v. Samsung Elecs. Co., Ltd. , Nos. 23-2184, 24-1399, 24-1400 (Fed. Cir. May 19, 2025) Two key canons of claim construction are that of claim differentiation and claim term differentiation - each patent claim is presumed to have its own scope and coverage, as is each element of each claim. The use of different terms in different claims "connotes different meanings.
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Analyzing contract trends with manual contract management is like sifting through a pile of papers in a dimly lit room, trying to find clues manually. Advanced CLM software’s contract data analytics, on the other hand, is like having an AI-based, intelligent magnifying glass that not only highlights key clues but also connects the dots for you. With innovative, AI-powered contract data analytics, you can solve the mystery of trends faster and with greater accuracy, making informed decisions base
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 19, 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end the protected status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens living in the United States. In a brief unsigned order , the justices paused a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco that had blocked Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, from terminating the protection.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
(Photo by Angela Weiss – Pool/Getty Images) When the first Trump administration started elevating unqualified cranks and Biglaw associates to the federal bench, the legal community braced themselves for dingbat outcomes like written opinions becoming insulting rants or tragi-comic linguistic gymnastics over basic vocabulary words. While those wacky predictions came to pass, some of us focused on another fear: if Trump had already picked so much low-hanging fruit to end up here… what
Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, illegally reneged on its promise to keep in place its policy to provide certain severance payments to terminated employees after Elon Musk took over the social media company, a lawsuit filed in Washington federal court said.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
AI-configured images are much more realistic than they used to be. This article , written in 2024, takes a semi-nostalgic look back at what AI-generated images looked like in 2022. Looking at the quality of images being assembled now , you could do the same with AI pictures from just a year ago. But the boost in quality and realism doesn’t come without drawbacks — the potential for deepfakes to cause social harms has risen in kind.
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal industry, and paralegals are at the forefront of this transformation. As AI becomes more integrated into legal workflows, paralegals can streamline their daily tasks, enhance efficiency, and add greater value to their firms and organizations. But what exactly does AI mean for paralegals today—and how can you leverage it to your advantage?
Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
A former Webster Bank general counsel has opposed part of a government plan for repaying the $7.4 million he pled guilty to taking by fraud, saying he will be in prison for four years, resigned as an attorney, remains unemployed and cannot work in banking once he's free.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
MAGA’s attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion has hit Biglaw particularly hard. Firms’ commitment to diversifying the profession were a featured part of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional Executive Orders targeting disfavored firms. Many major law firms have ended DEI resources , affinity groups , billing codes , scrubbed email signatures. and more to escape the wrath of the Trump administration.
Law 360
MAY 19, 2025
Artificial intelligence startup CoreWeave Inc. said Monday it plans to raise $1.5 billion in debt less than two months after its highly anticipated initial public offering fell short of expectations, represented by Fenwick & West LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Above The Law
MAY 19, 2025
Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. For demoralized people stuck inside these firms, I think this is catharsis. I’ve always wondered, when pressed, would rich liberal lawyers choose to stay rich or liberal? Now we know. — Kevin Carroll , a Washington, D.C., lawyer formerly of Quinn Emanuel, in comments given to the New York Times , on the left-leaning law firms that appear on Above the Law’s Biglaw Spine Index , for “what they’re doing —
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