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Trump's Civil Trials Continue, Even As Criminal Indictments Loom

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Donald Trump has so many legal problems they're starting to bleed into each other. Just yesterday, we learned that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who in Ap...

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Jul 2023

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Maryland Appellate Ruling Confirms Continued Complexity Of Embryo Clashes

[photo1]On June 26, 2023, the Appellate Court of Maryland issued an unreported opinion in an embryo dispute. Put simply, the court held that, while obviously not preferred, an oral agreement can be bi...

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Jul 2023

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5 marketing slides to bring to your next board meeting

Most board directors intuitively understand that marketing is an important part of any company's growth engine. It not only feeds the near-term sales engine, it also tees up future performance.Done ri...

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Jul 2023

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How To Work Fewer Holiday Weekends In Biglaw

[photo1]How did you spend your Memorial Day Weekend? I'm willing to bet that, while many of your friends and family were traveling, BBQ-ing, and relaxing on the beach, you were stuck inside working o...

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Jun 2023

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Lawyers Who Used ChatGPT To Fake Opinions Are In Real Trouble

[photo1]Elon Musk has done a lot of gross and terrible things, but taking a wrecking ball to Law Twitter is up there among the worst. In the halcyon days of 2021, we complained about Nazis and trolls ...

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Jun 2023

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'Legal Tech Lists': 5 Lawyer Tropes Upended By Legal Tech (Remote Litigation Edition)

[photo1]In the past few weeks we've identified, analyzed, and rectified 10 lawyer tropes (see here and here), perpetuated by cultural staples but abruptly upended by legal technology. Remote litigatio...

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Jun 2023

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You Should Be Paying Attention to Those Smooth Rings on the Barbell

Look closely at your barbell the next time you're in a gym. Much of the surface is roughed up with a diamond pattern. This is called the knurling, and it helps your grip. But near the ends of the hand...

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May 2023

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How the 'Primacy Effect' Can Help You Remember Information

Your brain is complex, but once you figure out its little intricacies--like that it can only store about seven units of information in short-term memory--you can exploit them to help you remember more...

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May 2023

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DOJ Decides That It Won't Let Pete Strzok Depose Trump After All

(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)The Justice Department has decided that it will not be letting former FBI agent Pete Strzok depose Donald Trump after all. This should not be news -- the DOJ is fam...

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May 2023

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'You All Live In An Alternate Reality, You Corporate Shills' Among Number Of Statements Earning Lawyer A Tidy Benchslap

[photo1]Biglaw attorneys are, generally speaking, corporate shills. But you don't get to just say that out loud! There's a gentility to this profession that we have to maintain. Philadelphia personal ...

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May 2023

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Meta's ad business slapped with interim measures in France over suspected antitrust abuse

More regulatory woes for Meta: France's competition watchdog has announced interim measures on the adtech giant -- saying it suspects it of abusing a dominant position in the French market for ads on ...

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May 2023

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23% of jobs to be disrupted in the next 5 years, WEF predicts

Nearly a quarter of the world's jobs will be disrupted in the coming five years, the latest report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found. Specifically, the job market will experience a 23% churn...

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May 2023

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Will Pressure From The Other Branches Force Judicial Accountability? -- See Also

(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)If Chief Justice Roberts Won't Get The Court In Order, Hopefully Congress Can: Something has to change besides unreported funds being added to top judges' ba...

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Apr 2023

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Webb telescope probes the chemistry in a hot gas giant's atmosphere

Up until a few decades ago, the only planets we knew about were in our own Solar System, and that shaped the way we thought about planet formation and planetary chemistry. Now, with the identification...

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Apr 2023

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Big Names At Graduation And Missing Names On Disclosure Forms -- See Also

(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Gratz On The Summer Associate Position! This primer will give you a heads-up on what to expect.Justice Thomas Isn't The Only Republican ...

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Apr 2023

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Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All Quantum States

[photo1]Thomas LewtonAt Princeton University in the early 1970s, the celebrated theoretical physicist John Wheeler could be spotted in seminars or impromptu hallway discussions drawing a big "U." The ...

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Apr 2023

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Samuel Alito Is Big Mad Supreme Court Grants Stay In Abortion Pill Case

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)First, let's start with the good news. The stay of First Liberty Counsel cum Amarillo Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's decision in the abortion pill case has been gran...

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Apr 2023

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Taking Ownership Starts At The Top

[photo1]Ed. note: Please welcome D.W. Randolph, author of Biglaw Confidential (affiliate link), to our pages. They will be writing about Biglaw firms and life, all from a partner's perspective.Attorne...

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Apr 2023

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SBF called Alameda "unauditable," joked about losing track of $50 million

Sam Bankman-Fried declared FTX affiliate Alameda Research to be "unauditable" and joked about sometimes losing track of $50 million worth of assets, according to a report issued by FTX's new CEO."In a...

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Apr 2023

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The Lies Employers Tell You During Job Interviews

Job hunting has never been easy, but in recent years, the process has become a dystopian nightmare. Gearing up to look for a new position requires the sort of planning once relegated to military camp...

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Apr 2023