California has settled its lawsuit against testing company Meazure Learning, ending a legal battle that followed the tumultuous February 2025 California bar exam. The settlement resolves claims stemming from widespread technical failures that disrupted one of the nation’s largest bar licensing exams and left thousands of aspiring lawyers facing unexpected challenges. The settlement marks another […]
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(Image via ChatGPT) Remember when everyone thought that Allen & Overy/Shearman merger was it a once in a lifetime event? It was supposed to be a transatlantic Biglaw merger for the ages, but many law firm executives saw it as an invitation. Now, we have HSF Kramer, Winston Taylor, Ashurst Perkins CoieAND Hogan Lovells Cadwalader. […]
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The battle for Kentucky Law’s dean has reached the stage where someone is suing. In April, the whole mess was now a garbage fire after a “substantial majority of the faculty” told those leading the dean’s search that Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove was an unacceptable candidate, lacking the academic integrity required by the school’s own […]
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annual American Association of Law Librarians CONFERENCES (AALL) begins this week in Cleveland. I am a regular attendee and fan of this conference. It is low and frequented mainly by law librarians. Law librarians from large firms, small firms, in-between firms and from various law schools. What do law librarians really do? The term “law […]
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Early last week, I was at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for its first weekend. In the library itself, despite the President Donald Trump inappropriately inserting himself at the opening ceremonies, I didn’t see a single person wearing Trump-brand clothing. The town of Medora, North Dakota itself was, however, another story. It wasn’t overwhelming. But […]
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which recording artist was recently sued by their former attorneys at Biglaw firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani for unpaid six-figure legal bills from defending a copyright infringement case? Hint: The artist is an obvious Trump supporter, maybe they learned his “trick”. stiffening their […]
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It turns out that the Biglaw Firms that bowed to Trump have even more to lose: These deals keep looking worse and worse. Todd Blanche once had the respect of his former SDNY colleagues: Not anymore. Oops! Todd Blanche’s Freudian slip during the confirmation hearing isn’t the only thing that has people talking. Union? What […]
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UN DECLARING on Wednesday that Sudan’s war economy is contributing to sustaining continuity armed conflict between the Sudanese military forces and the Rapid Support Force (RSF), through the trade of various Sudanese goods, including gum arabic, one of the country’s main exports. Apart from the foreign army SUPPORTING and arms supplies, the conflict in Sudan […]
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Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Tuesday that the Court may exercise jurisdiction in the case of Prosecutor v. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri. Al Hishri is suspected to have been a senior official of the armed group of the Special Prevention Forces. He is charged with 17 counts of crimes […]
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(Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) Todd Blanche has spent much of his confirmation hearing trying to convince the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is the Attorney General of the United States, not Donald Trump’s personal attorney. He’s not making it easy on himself. During an exchange with Senator John Kennedy – who, it […]
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