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The New York City Bar Association has called for an investigation into Attorney General William Barr over conduct that threatens the "impartial administration of justice." ow.ly/N21I30q8pba
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Deputy Attorney General Rod #Rosenstein receives a rock-star welcome with multiple standing ovations from a standing room-only crowd during the opening forum at the #ABAAnnual Meeting in #Chicago. ow.ly/dbXd30lfkq3 via @ABAJournal.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday political parties are simplifying judicial philosophies and turning them into “slogans” that threaten judicial independence. ow.ly/9jXQ30sages #SCOTUS
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In the mid-1970s, a lawyer from the Ohio firm Roetzel & Andress wrote to the Cleveland Browns football team with a complaint about paper airplanes being tossed around old Municipal Stadium. Check out this classic two-sentence response. ow.ly/NJUv30kN3L2 via @ABAJournal
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ABA Members Who Inspire - After an ALS diagnosis, Brian Wallach fights for a cure: "This is our closing argument for our lives." ow.ly/WjEX50MFJuv #ABA #memberswhoinspire @juliannehill @ABAesq @iamalsorg @bsw5020
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ABA urges #Kavanaugh vote be delayed until after a full #FBI investigation in letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. ow.ly/r5hI30m0Ko8
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been awarded a $1 million prize for her work pioneering gender equality and strengthening the rule of law. ow.ly/bEaY30pLI16 #RBG #SCOTUS
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a criminal defendant can be retried in a new venue if the first trial was held in the wrong place. ow.ly/T5A950OPH6i #SCOTUS
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#SCOTUS Justice #RuthBaderGinsburg was reportedly back in her office Tuesday afternoon after breaking three ribs in a fall last Wednesday night. Her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, said she is “tough as nails." ow.ly/aiqT30mCCwZ
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Today is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 86th birthday! An activist apparel company is planning a birthday tribute with a planking party on the steps of the Supreme Court today. Will you be planking in honor of #RBG, too? Read the story here: ow.ly/ze6M30o383f #PlankLikeRBG
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Florida lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder: “I am a trial lawyer. I am used to being ready for battle.” ow.ly/qgSR30qH8jc #COVID19 @DWUhlfelderLaw @JennyBDavis
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Eighteen law firms have joined Crowell & Moring in calling on Vice President Mike Pence to use the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office. ow.ly/bJS830rsdg5
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The rise of @Uber and @lyft inspires a liability practice ow.ly/sOC330evQei @LegalRideshare @matthewbelcher
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A federal appeals court has affirmed dismissal of a conservative Christian group’s lawsuit alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center defamed the church by designating it a hate group. ow.ly/v3nE30rPmWp #FirstAmendment
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Remember -- it's Global #LoveYourLawyerDay. R/T using the hashtag and a shout out to who you admire. #ABAJournal ow.ly/YF8c30gks2H
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“For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it. But now the law is on the side of women or men who encounter harassment, and that’s a good thing.” ow.ly/i7xU30hWcxj #metoo #RBG #NotoriousRBG # Ginsburn via @ABAJournal
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A #lawyer who was the first woman to publicly accuse #gymnastics doctor Larry #Nassar of sexual assault has been selected as #SportsIllustrated ’s Inspiration of the Year. ow.ly/3fHK30mXX7Y
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This father-daughter duo from Ohio entered the University of Akron School of Law in fall 2015, taking nighttime classes while they worked their day jobs. They were in the same study group, both graduated in December, and both took the bar exam in February. ow.ly/GlSB30oevYV
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If lawyers made candy hearts, what would yours say? How do you say “I love you” in legalese? Let us know in this week's Question of the Week! ow.ly/dnSI30nGZ0r #QOTW #ValentinesDay #lawyers #QuestionoftheWeek
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The “Career of the Year” Barbie for 2019 is a judge. “Our hope is that girls will enjoy playing with the dolls and imagine themselves protecting the rights of others,” said Lisa McKnight, Barbie senior VP and global brand general manager. ow.ly/aTrt30pGlQd @Mattel
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Justice Sonia #Sotomayor has “deeply troubling concern” about #solitary confinement conditions that deny prisoners “even a moment in daylight for months or years,” she wrote in a Tuesday cert denial. ow.ly/OrTi30mahVy
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written four majority opinions this term, outpacing all the other justices. Three of those opinions were issued after Ginsburg returned to the bench following Dec. 21 surgery for lung cancer.
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A Kentucky prosecutor who admitted to impregnating a criminal defendant and having an affair with a dismissed juror is now running for a circuit court judgeship. ow.ly/W1Sg30spkSe
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Jane Bolin was the first black woman to graduate from @YaleLawSch and to join the New York City Bar Association. In 1939, she broke ground yet again as the first female black judge in the U.S. Read more at ABAJournal.com/galleries! #blackhistorymonth @NYCBarAssn @Yale
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It’s the first Friday of November, and you may or may not know what that means: It’s Love Your Lawyer Day! #LoveYourLawyerDay ow.ly/T1KJ30mtvc3
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Did Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch misstate the number of flu deaths? The transcript—not the justice—was wrong. ow.ly/rf9r30s6W8w #SCOTUS
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Manhattan eliminates bail for misdemeanor charges. “A systemic reliance on bail for low-level offenses is out of step with a reformed, 21st-century justice system,” @ManhattanDA Cyrus Vance said. bit.ly/2qMkm6C @sfw70II
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#Judiciary 'is not a puppet of those in power,' says #SupremeCourt Justice Clarence Thomas. ow.ly/WuLk30mkE8R
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“Justice doesn’t come when you only do the things that are comfortable and convenient. We advance justice only when we’re willing to do things that are uncomfortable." #BryanStevenson #ABAAnnual bit.ly/2LVBWiL
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Russian #lobbyist at ’16 meeting with #Trump Jr., #Kushner, #Manafort speaks to #Mueller grand jury. #ABAJournal. ow.ly/naNz30eOXDe
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ABA says in letter to Jeff Sessions that it is 'greatly concerned' about low percentage of female and minority US attorney candidates ow.ly/duTy30h9OIh @ABAesq @ABAPresident @ABAJournal
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ICYMI: @TheEmilyDBaker wanted a diversion from 2020, so she started doing her own legal commentary about pop culture, with topics including a pair of "Satan Shoes" associated with rapper Lil Nas X. ow.ly/Qq9M30rFOzh #askedandanswered #podcast #COVID19 @sfw70II @LegalTalkNet
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ICYMI: When she’s posting online, Beth Bourdon is not like most other lawyers, and she says that’s probably why she has more than 50,000 Twitter followers. ow.ly/qYJg30rxUia #askedandanswered #podcast #COVID19 @sfw70II @LegalTalkNet @bethbourdon
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The October online bar exam is less than a month away, and test-takers are reporting significant software problems. ow.ly/Lujy30ranMY #barexam #COVID19 @sfw70II
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Are you following the right people on Twitter? Here are the 25 accounts we chose for the ABA Journal's 2018 #Web100: ow.ly/9uQn30mLaXO
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Under a newly introduced federal bill, public defenders would get the same pay as prosecutors. ow.ly/ZuqE30oHivL #Prosecutors #PublicDefenders
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A #Miami couple have agreed to donate $33 million to the #UniversityofMichigan Law School, and the money is earmarked to help ease student #debt. ow.ly/Yp7D30mUoPW
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With execution set for Nov. 9, @ABAPresident Hilarie Bass asks Arkansas governor @AsaHutchinson to consider inmate's mental-illness history in clemency review. abajournal.com/news/article/…
ALT Corridor in an abandoned penitentiary.
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A line everyone remembers: "What is a 'ute?'" #MyCousinVinny made our top 25 legal films of all time. Check out the rest of our gallery -- how many have you seen? ow.ly/6gES30lnGiz via @ABAJournal.
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ABA will honor Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, with ABA Medal #accesstojustice @eji_org ow.ly/oiVm30kQbgZ
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#RBG: "Because these #MeToo complaints—every woman of my vintage has not just one story, but many stories." ow.ly/QFbD30m0jhj via @ABAJournal.
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A #Kentucky #probono organization uses the #JusticeBus as a mobile legal aid clinic. #YourABA
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Have you hugged a #lawyer today? It's #LoveYourLawyerDay! R/T with the hashtag and show them some love! #ABAJournal ow.ly/DptQ30gkMoq
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If you're a lawyer who came from a less than privileged background to get where you are today, use the hashtag #mypathtolaw to tell your story. #careers ow.ly/savS30iieDE via @ABAJournal.
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Happy Be Kind to Lawyers Day, from all of us here at the ABA Journal! A little kindness really does go a long way! Be sure to show all the lawyers in your life some extra kindness and appreciation today. #BeKindToLawyersDay
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ICYMI: A family court judge who searched a self-represented litigant’s home for marital property will receive a public censure and a $1,000 fine for the “egregious abuse of process,” the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has ruled. ow.ly/bm3l30s1uiW #ethics #familylaw
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Shaakirrah Sanders, a constitutional law and criminal procedure professor, alleges the University of Idaho's law school violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. ow.ly/vGlt30rQKBD #legaleducation @sfw70II
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“Too many non-Jewish lawyers in Germany during the Nazi era stood by and were not vigilant,” said ABA President Bob Carlson in this November 2018 article. “That is the first lesson from the 1930s. We cannot do nothing." #HolocaustRemembranceDay ow.ly/sIDm30ntfen
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.@ABAPresident @HilarieBass: “I will go to Texas to assess the situation and investigate ways the legal community can help expedite the reunification of families [and] assist in finding pro bono attorneys for those seeking asylum." bit.ly/2JVKVzw via @ABAJournal
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A 27-year-old litigation attorney who handles pro bono work for inmates was crowned the new Miss USA. Cheslie Kryst is an associate at Poyner Spruill who focuses on litigation and government representation. ow.ly/LKPQ30oD6in #probono #MissUSA @poynerspruill @MissNCUSA
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On this day in 1963, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy set @LawyersComm in motion, calling for the establishment of “lawyers’ committees” to pursue civil rights, @MyeshaBraden @KristenClarkeJD write in a #YourVoice essay. abajournal.com/voice/article…
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From the April magazine: Justice system helmed by black women serves community. “Regardless of our race and gender, we all rose to the top," says Tiffany Carter Sellers, who was appointed chief judge in South Fulton, Georgia. ow.ly/z9by30opERj
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law eliminating cash bail. Illinois will now become the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail when the new law takes effect Sept. 18. ow.ly/UzYX50PgnQn
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From @MarshallProj: A #California county will repay some 500 mostly low-income families who were wrongfully billed for the incarceration of their children since 2010. The county also wiped out millions in debt in about 11,000 other cases. ow.ly/ztgV30hEuwG via @ABAJournal.
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Onetime high school dropout and single mom celebrates her graduation from @TSULaw in viral photo ow.ly/Fzgc30jrISo via @ABAJournal
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White House tells ABA it won’t be asked to review lower-court judicial candidates before nomination dlvr.it/NmjYqm
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Two Princeton University historians say they've been alarmed about an uptick in misinformation, censorship & rewriting of history. ow.ly/8sRQ50MYkxs #podcast #modernlawlibrary #legalwriting #legalhistory @Lee_Rawles @BooksforLawyers @LegalTalkNet @KevinMKruse @julianzelizer
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Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, founded in 1994, focuses on representing people who may have been denied a fair trial because of their youth, race or other circumstances. bit.ly/2tZn0ov
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An angry BigLaw lawyer has gone viral as the #guyonporch during the Wednesday riot at the U.S. Capitol. ow.ly/2BeM30rrQbQ #BigLaw
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NYU School of Law illegally disfavors white men in law review selection, suit alleges. ow.ly/NmLW50Q0clr #legaleducation
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The American Bar Association @ABAesq is offering free #CLE to lawyers impacted by the partial government shutdown. #ABA #AmericanBarAssociation #governmentshutdown ow.ly/6hCD30ngx1W
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10 Questions: A lawyer-turned-playwright is celebrating a Broadway debut with a powerful legal drama. ow.ly/jGmb50NTZxU #10Questions #PrimaFacie @SuzieMillerWrtr
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While leading @iamalsorg , @bsw5020 has won political battles some called impossible. These include pushing Congress to increase government spending on ALS from $10M to $80M annually between 2019 and 2021. ow.ly/QyKc50MFK5Q #ABA #memberswhoinspire @ABAesq @juliannehill
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The inaugural @ABAJournal #Web100 is live! Check out our list of top law blogs, law podcasts, and law tweeters: ow.ly/t3BO30gR3Rc
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A prosecutor in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, told colleagues that he believed he'd caught COVID-19 because of the courthouse's inadequate safety protocols. The 65-year-old is now hospitalized in critical condition. ow.ly/Flcc50Ayujh
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REPOSTING: Ruth Bader #Ginsburg: I hope to stay on #SCOTUS for at least five more years. #RBG #NotoriusRBG ow.ly/8gw930lbe4c via @ABAJournal.
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A software provider has pulled out of remotely proctored bar exams because of technology concerns. ow.ly/qtq630r53Tn #barexam #legaltech @sfw70II
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A law student using American Sign Language has won a 4th Circuit appeal. ow.ly/wasN30rzmY1 #legaleducation @sfw70II
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Happy #LawDay Eve 2019! Tomorrow we celebrate “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society.” Learn more in our April cover feature's sidebar here: ow.ly/rkyr30ozPpe and our #FirstAmendment galleries here: ow.ly/KNmq30ozPtH @ABAPresident @ABAesq @LucianPera @abapubliced
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.@BryanAGarner: "What’s the single most important sentence-level reform in transactional drafting? It’s a seemingly simple idea that would require massive retraining of lawyers." ow.ly/I6yC30gF2GV
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Lawyer Beth Bourdon is willing to go places where other attorneys may be hesitant, including this summer when she joined Parler. ow.ly/9Gfj30rxUfr #askedandanswered #podcast #COVID19 @sfw70II @bethbourdon @LegalTalkNet
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Asked and Answered: How is the lawyer known as "Popehat" on Twitter keeping busy during the pandemic? ow.ly/VvsV30rcabw #askedandanswered #COVID19 #podcast @sfw70II @Popehat @LegalTalkNet
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A new bill before the U.S House of Representatives would prohibit federal courts from charging for public documents. #PACER ow.ly/FYsb30lS7Nt via @ABAJournal.
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Today we're featuring Macon Bolling Allen, the oldest honoree in our groundbreaking black lawyers #gallery. In 1844, he passed the Maine bar exam and became the first licensed African-American lawyer in the United States. Read more at ABAJournal.com/galleries! #blackhistorymonth
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My Path to Law: @haleymossart , a lawyer with autism, finds her voice. "I am passionate about disability rights & advocacy. I am openly autistic & proud. I don’t have to be a disability rights or special education attorney to do what I enjoy." ow.ly/Ly7V30pvnNv #mypathtolaw
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A conservative legal group has declared victory after two federal judges in Illinois rescinded polices promoting what the group calls “oral-argument affirmative action.” ow.ly/cXXR50R1A26
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‘Tough as nails’ Ginsburg was reportedly back in her office, planning to resume workouts abajournal.com/news/article/…
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Civil rights attorney #BryanStevenson, author the of the best-selling book #JustMercy, uses the power of #storytelling to change the world. ow.ly/8yzY30k4JD0 via @ABAJournal.
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Can lawyers learn to be nicer to one another? Heidi K. Brown of @brooklynlaw asks when did it become so cool to be unkind? ow.ly/SD2p30lZNCe via @ABAJournal.
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Law students offer free legal services to help transgender people change their names ow.ly/YYHY308cFmt #TransLawHelp
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.@ABAesq marks 60th anniversary of #LawDay with #SeparationofPowers being this year's theme. #constitutionallaw ow.ly/T4rS30jM0tv via @ABAJournal.
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The first female attorney general of #Oregon urges other women not to overthink things if considering a run for office. "We need you," Ellen Rosenblum says during an #ABAMidyear luncheon in #Vancouver. ow.ly/Kigc30iblH3 via @ABAJournal.
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A law firm used minorities as "diversity props" to impress clients and distort inclusiveness to would-be associates, a March 4 lawsuit alleges. ow.ly/UHgo30nWG8q
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Why do experienced female lawyers leave the profession? A new @ABAesq survey cites disrespect and social constraints. #ABAAnnual ow.ly/OIDh30lgmRz via @ABAJournal. (Photo © Kathy Anderson).
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The conservative legal group America First Legal has filed a misconduct complaint against three federal judges in Illinois who issued orders intended to encourage “newer, female and minority attorneys” to argue motions.
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ICYMI: Barbie has had more than 200 careers, and now she's a judge. “We like to say, ‘There isn’t a plastic ceiling that Barbie hasn’t broken,’ ” said Lisa McKnight, senior vice president and global brand general manager of Barbie. ow.ly/6qoI30pHrAX #Barbie #Mattel
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Law grad with criminal record can sit for state bar, Washington Supreme Court rules. ow.ly/b1wC30gEPxf @TarraSimmons5 @shonhopwood @sfw70
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Your Voice: For minority law students, learning the law can be intellectually violent. ow.ly/v8j130rf8Kl #YourVoice @ProfOsseiOwusu
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Starting in June, @khanacademy and @Official_LSAT will offer a free online #LSAT test prep program to all. #lawstudents ow.ly/xGnv30jLfpT via @ABAJournal.
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Our exclusive interview: The cat is out of the bag. County Attorney Rod Ponton of Presidio County, Texas, appeared on Zoom for a court hearing around 11 a.m. Tuesday. By the afternoon, he was a YouTube star. ow.ly/w3xN30rwgLA
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A #California man brings a class-action suit against @Google for collecting location data even when location history was turned off. ow.ly/noEk30luLXN via @LawScribbler and @ABAJournal.
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.@alicia_bannon: More targeted reforms, such as strengthening judicial recusal rules and requiring the disclosure of dark money in judicial elections, would also help mitigate special interest influence on the courts. bit.ly/2tXvr3Z #faircourts via @ABAJournal
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Removing the judicial mask: Judges tell the stories behind their most trying decisions. ow.ly/rA3l30oUlOk #Storytelling
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On this day 55 years ago, #SCOTUS created the “actual malice” standard for libel in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Follow along with #LawDay as we count down to the celebration of “Free Speech, Free Press, Free Society.” Learn more at LawDay.org. @abapubliced
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A #Connecticut woman is awarded more than $85K after being hit in the face with a bowl of pasta thrown by a lawyer during an argument with another person. #tortlaw ow.ly/f3yF30kro71 via @ABAJournal,
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3L Alyssa Leader runs a constant mental countdown of weeks to finals, weeks to graduation, weeks to the bar exam, weeks to results, weeks until she can say she's someone she never would've been if not for another lawyer. ow.ly/LESj30pLYI8 #YourVoice #probono @alittleleader
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“We are greatly concerned that a lower percentage of women and people of color have been appointed to [U.S. attorney] positions in the past year than in previous administrations—both Democrat and Republican,” says letter from @ABAPresident to Jeff Sessions ow.ly/J6Xn30h9CpI
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