A new survey has found that nearly half of law firm associates believe that law school did not adequately prepare them for practice. The survey, conducted by legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa and legal data intelligence provider Leopard Solutions, interviewed 546 junior associates in January and February. Of those surveyed, 45% stated that…
A group of visual artists has filed a new copyright lawsuit against Google in California federal court, alleging that Alphabet’s new tab unit used their work without permission to train Imagen, its artificial-intelligence powered image generator. Photographer Jingna Zhang and cartoonists Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink asserted in the proposed class-action filed on…
How do you apply to law school for free or little to nothing? Applying to law school can be very expensive, and you might not realize that there are ways to get fees for your LSAT prep waived. The first step to finding discounted LSAT prep is often through getting an LSAC Fee Waiver. Make…
When the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rules on Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from prosecution, a third of those deciding the matter will be justices he appointed to their lifetime posts. Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch, comprising half of the court’s 6-3 conservative majority, posed questions from various angles as the…
The Supreme Court has been petitioned to strike down $667 million in legal fees and costs that plaintiffs’ lawyers won in a $2.7 billion class-action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield, accusing it of nationwide insurance overcharges. A member of the class filed the petition, arguing in the lower court that the fee amount was…
On Friday, a Colorado judge sentenced Jeremy Cooper, a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, to 14 months in a work-release program and four years of probation. The 23-year-old Black man died after police slammed him to the ground and put him in a chokehold at least twice. Paramedics injected him with…
On Friday, a former McKinsey & Co partner filed a lawsuit against the global consulting firm, accusing it of defaming him and making him a “scapegoat” to divert attention from its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other manufacturers of opioid pain medications. Arnab Ghatak, fired in 2021, lodged the lawsuit in New York…
Columbia Law School snagged the top spot among U.S. law schools for having the highest percentage of 2023 graduates who landed large law firm jobs, according to new employment data from the American Bar Association. Nearly 76% of the school’s juris doctor graduates took jobs at firms of 251 or more lawyers within 10 months…
David Pecker, former National Enquirer publisher, testified on Friday at Donald Trump’s criminal trial that he suppressed a story about an alleged affair to aid Trump’s 2016 presidential bid. He acknowledged that it would have boosted sales of his tabloid. Testifying for a third day, Pecker, 72, agreed with a prosecutor who asked whether it…
SpaceX has requested a Texas federal judge to block the National Labor Relations Board from pursuing claims alleging that the Elon Musk-led rocket maker required workers to sign illegal severance agreements. The company seeks to halt the proceedings pending the outcome of its second challenge to the agency’s structure. Late Thursday, SpaceX filed a motion…