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Law books are heavy. Carrying more than a few, plus a laptop, plus other stuff, makes law school more than a mental challenge, but also a physical one. While getting a rolling bag can be helpful, those things still are not easy (on the eyes or) to lug around when packed with a stack of […]

Can you speak a language other than English? Can you do so well enough to attract speakers of that language as potential clients? If so, it may just be a matter of expanding your marketing to reach that demographic. If not, you may want to consider setting up an account with a remote translation service […]

The practice of law may not, in principle, have changed much over the last few decades (or ever). But, in action, mobile devices have changed the game, in a few big ways. Where you may have been able to leave your work at the office in bygone years, now, your smartphone is like a virtual […]

Arbitration agreements are not what they used to be, at least not as far as Sunoco is concerned. The gasoline company sought to compel arbitration in an alleged fraud involving Citibank, claiming the plaintiff Donald White signed an arbitration agreement with the credit card company. White alleged Sunoco induced him to sign up for a […]

The White House has announced President Donald Trump’s pick for the vacant seat on D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: Gregory Katsas, the current deputy counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office. If Katsas is confirmed by the Senate, the conservative seat vacated by Judge Janice Rogers Brown will be filled by another conservative. Katsas, whose […]Read More

After all that Charles Murphy suffered at the hands of prison guards, his case is going to the U.S. Supreme Court over another issue: attorney’s fees. The High Court has docketed the case, Murphy v. Smith, to decide whether a portion of a judgment means “up to 25 percent” or “exactly 25 percent” for attorney’s […]Read More

Millennials have been called this and that, and told they are different in so many ways, but as time passes, it’s becoming clearer and clearer that there’s really very little difference between them and prior generations. Especially when it comes to learning. Millennial law students may have been born into a world of technology, but […]

No shorts, no shoes, no shirt, no service. But what about gay couples? That’s the question baker Jack Phillips poses to the U.S. Supreme Court in a showdown between gay and religious rights. For now, the U.S. Justice Department has answered the question: no service. “Forcing Phillips to create expression for and participate in a […]Read More

That Hawaiian judge stopped President Trump — again. Judge Derrick Watson, slighted by Trump’s legal general as that “judge sitting on an island in the Pacific,” blocked the president’s controversial travel ban in March. The Trump administration appealed up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which temporarily allowed a modified ban, but one issue came back […]Read More

Brian Cuban started to figure it out in law school — he was an alcoholic. It happened outside the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, after he stumbled out of a bar and puked somewhere near Forbes Field. He didn’t really know where he was, but he knew he didn’t want to be there. Cuban […]

Basically, it was a high tech way of spying. According to reports, the Red Sox baseball team was stealing hand signs by watching video replays of the game off the field and then texting the information live to a staffer’s smart watch in the dugout. Cheating or gaming? Not that we should ever think like […]

Despite his controversial Facebook comments, Judge Greg Griffin was not about to recuse himself from a racially charged murder case. The murder defendant, a white police officer, had shot and killed a black man after stopping him on the street. Griffin, as fate would have it, had been stopped by police in the same city […]