Heather Cantua, Amy Duvanich, and Jamie Wells.Imagine: You wake up on a regular weekday, and rather than already feeling behind, you feel positive, even excited about the day ahead of you. Your first ...
Lindsay Lohan (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.From the outset, she cooperated with the SEC's investigation and ultimately agreed to disg...
[photo1]The story of Shepard's Citations began when a salesman named Frank Shepard published the first version of his guide to legal precedence in 1873 after noticing how his attorney colleagues kept ...
[photo1]Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Lindsay Kennedy back to our page...
Family court (by David Lat).On February 24, 2023, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling that should be highly troubling to LGBTQ+ parents everywhere. In the case, the court denied parenta...
[photo1]Defense attorneys play an important role in our legal system. No matter how presumed innocent you are, going pro se is generally not the best decision. The need for counsel is even more import...
[photo1]A federal judge decided to offer an attorney before the court a little grace after a filing filled with "unnecessary potshots and hyperbole," not that the attorney took him up on the offer. No...
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.We do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law in New York.
Mar 2023
Lala Kent knows why you hire a Biglaw attorney. (Photo by Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)Even folks who turn their nose up at reality TV have, at this point, have heard about the Vanderpump Rules love tr...
Jenna Ellis (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)Another member of Trump's Elite Superfriends Sparklemagic Strike Team Task Force got dinged yesterday as the Supreme Court of Colorado approved an admis...
(Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)Southern Poverty Law Center staff attorney and graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, Tom Jurgens, was arrested on domestic terroris...
[photo1]A recent judgment from Connecticut's Judicial District of Hartford was disappointing, to put it mildly, for those interested in accountability in the reproductive field. Specifically, on Febr...
[photo1]Investors, regulators, customers, and employees are demanding that companies improve their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices and address problems like climate change and di...
[photo1]David Sargent, an attorney and former faculty member at Loyola University Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability, was indicted on insider trading charges. Prosecutors said Sargent re...
(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty)Georgia Republicans are staunch law and order types who back the blue and support local control ... except when Democrats succeed in electing district attorneys who enforce...
(Photo by Demetrius Freeman-Pool/Getty Images)We prosecute without respect to ideology. But we do focus on the most violent acts and the most violent actors.-- Attorney Genera...
[photo1]Over 60 years ago -- even more if you count the stage version -- a movie called "Harvey" told the story of a man, Elwood P. Dowd, whose sister wanted to put him in a retirement home called (an...
[photo1]For attorneys operating on a global scale, staying ahead of the latest regulatory decisions and enforcement trends is a top priority. Working on that scale, however, often means those attorney...
Family court (by David Lat).On February 13, 2023, the Seventh Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma issued a pretty shocking Letter Ruling determining that a sperm donor was the legal parent to a...
[photo1]Most of us has heard the advice to not burn bridges when leaving an employer. This is because people never know when they will need a favor from someone from their past, and it is best to keep...