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How to close the legal experience gap with simulation-based learning platforms
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (425+ words) July 24, 2026, 1:56 pm CDT Generative artificial intelligence has proven to be a truly disruptive technology. In just a few short years, AI’s effects have been felt in every industry and across most professions. It has impacted financial markets, company structures and…...
What connects Matt Damon and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson? College theater class
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (210+ words) July 23, 2026, 10:23 am CDT Anyone who’s ever been in a college theater class knows that your scene partner is often randomly picked by your professor. More than 30 years later, Academy Award winner and actor Matt Damon told CBS Mornings last week…...
‘The most important criminal case of the term'—SCOTUS takes on plea bargaining
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1355+ words) July 23, 2026, 9:10 am CDT U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy put it succinctly in a 2012 decision that noted 97% of federal criminal convictions and 94% of state convictions at that time were the result of guilty pleas entered by defendants. “Criminal justice today is…...
Telephone Consumer Protection Act's unwanted calls provision doesn't include texts, 7th Circuit says
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (174+ words) July 22, 2026, 9:43 am CDT A federal appeals court ruled last week that the federal law allowing people to sue for unwanted marketing calls does not extend to text messages. (Image from Shutterstock) In a July 14 ruling, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…...
California Supreme Court approves adoption of NextGen Uniform Bar Exam
1+ week, 2+ day ago (310+ words) By Anna Stolley Persky July 16, 2026, 12:09 pm CDT The California Supreme Court has approved adoption of the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam.(Image from Shutterstock) The California Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a State Bar of California recommendation replacing the current General…...
'Extremely excessive' research, fees alleged in 'It Ends With Us' litigation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (232+ words) By Stephanie Francis Ward July 15, 2026, 12:53 pm CDT With representation from two large law firms, is more than $7 million in attorney fees, pretrial, excessive? In May the parties filed a motion to settle the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of…...
Nicki Minaj’s legal team sues singer for unpaid fees
1+ week, 4+ day ago (175+ words) July 14, 2026, 10:47 am CDT A law firm is suing singer Nicki Minaj for failure to pay legal services it provided for the entertainer in 2024. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court for over roughly $230,000 in unpaid…...
University of Chicago Law School restricts AI, bans personal devices for 1Ls
2+ week, 1+ day ago (291+ words) July 10, 2026, 10:09 am CDT To “discourage the offloading of work to AI tools” while not deterring its use, the University of Chicago Law School is adjusting its artificial intelligence policy that will now ban phones and laptops in 1L courses and mandate…...
Many small firms collect payments faster than BigLaw counterparts, new data shows
2+ week, 2+ day ago (431+ words) July 9, 2026, 8:54 am CDT Many small and medium-size law firms are collecting payments faster than BigLaw firms, according to new data from professional business platform 8am. In analyzing millions of bills issued by these firms in the last two years, 8am found that…...
Foes to Friends: Personal injury attorney reflects on what he’s learned from rivals
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1119+ words) By Daniel P. O’Toole July 8, 2026, 2:51 pm CDT Throughout my career, I have learned a lot from my “adversaries.” One such adversary was the late great Ross D’Apice, a Brooklyn defense attorney and legend who passed away several years ago. When I…...