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Are you a 1L that’s thinking about going home for Thanksgiving? Or maybe you’re more reasonable and you’re thinking that going home for the winter break after exams is a good idea. Regardless of whether or not you have been shaped into the reasonably prudent person your law profs have promised to make you yet, […]Read More

A doctor, an accountant, and a writer walked in to a law school but couldn’t get out. Why? Because the admissions office wanted them to stay for three more years. True story, and you thought it was a joke. More than ever, law schools want a diverse student population. It’s not just about minorities, it’s […]Read More

Storing old files can be rather costly. Depending on where your practice is located, storing a bankers box worth of client files for five years, or however long is required by your state bar’s ethics rules, can add up, especially as the boxes of files stack up. Given the advances in digital file storage, it […]

Gennady G. Golovkin, who is a better boxer than $300-million-per-fight Floyd Mayweather, was facing the biggest challenge of his perfect-record career. “GGG” was preparing to fight a younger, stronger fighter who was thirsty to take Golovokin’s championship crown. But that was not Triple G’s biggest challenge. The biggest challenge was deciding whether he should interrupt […]Read More

Edith Windsor, who won a pioneering case for same-sex marriages, has died. She was not a lawyer, but she won a case that secured her legacy in civil rights history. Two past presidents honored her after news of her passing. “Few were as small in stature as Edie Windsor — and few made as big […]

Despite how annoying it is, law profs across the country still use the Socratic method, often referred to as cold calling. Naturally, this means that law students across the country actively do their best to not get called on in class, or just over-prepare out of fear of being called on. In some classes, professors […]

In a way, the farmer’s market was mixing apples and oranges. Craig Zuber, who worked at the Fairgrounds Farmer’s Market in Reading, Pennsylvania, signed a settlement agreement after he was injured on the job. He then sued the company for Family Medical Leave Act violations and other claims. Boscov’s, the employer, said he waived his […]Read More

For a prayerful people, there sure is a lot of bickering about prayer in government chambers these days — and in the courts of appeal in particular. In Bormuth v. County of Jackson, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals split over the issue of county commissioners leading prayer to open their meetings. Nine justices […]

Back in the day, you looked over your shoulder to make sure no one was following you. Now you have to look in your pocket or your purse. That’s because hackers have found another way to get information from your cell phone or mobile device. They can access your data through Bluetooth technology. In other […]

Often times, when high profile or legally fascinating cases get some media attention, the lawyers not handling those cases will be left wondering: how did THAT lawyer get THAT case? While a lawyer’s personal reputation and personal network still has quite a bit to do with it, there’s no magic bullet to attracting the cases […]

The State of California, along with Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security following the Trump administration’s announcement that it would rescind former President Barack Obama’s executive order regarding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The program had provided limited legal protection for individuals brought to […]

Where are Cheech and Chong when we need them? “Hey man, am I driving OK?” Cheech asks in the 1978 classic, “Up In Smoke.” Chong, his partner in cannabis crime, looks around their smoke-filled car and then answers: “I think we’re parked, man.” Since California has ruled that marijuana deliveries may be made only by […]Read More