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Big Day For Big Money For Biglaw — See Also

Rundown Of The Day's Bonus Announcements: Skadden, Cravath, Simpson, Katten, Hueston Hennigan, and Proskauer. Steve Bannon's Contempt Of Congress Case Goes Off The Rails: Which, perhaps inaccurately, suggests it was even on rails to begin with. Laid Off D

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The Appellate Gender Gap Is Even Worse In Civil Cases

The numbers aren't great. The post The Appellate Gender Gap Is Even Worse In Civil Cases appeared first on Above the Law.

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The morning read for Tuesday, Dec. 7

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at [email protected]. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Biden’s Supr

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Court will consider whether prisoners can develop certain evidence in federal court to challenge their convictions

In 1994, death penalty lawyer Stephen Bright published his seminal essay Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer. His argument – succinctly stated in the title – was that indigent defendants were dispropor

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