Affirmative Action
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Law Schools
Yale Law's Diversity Decreases After Affirmative Action's Death Knell
There are now fewer students of color at Yale Law. What does diversity look like at other leading law schools? - Sponsored
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Courts
Got A Scholarship For Women? Prepare For Trouble.
Nice diversity fellowship for minorities or women you got there. Sure would be a shame if a white male applied.
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Law Schools
ABA Council Proposes Language Change To Nix 'Diversity' From Law School Considerations
Increasing access sounds good, but how? -
Law Schools
Suit Alleges Anti-White Bias In Tax Law Hiring Despite Virtually All Tax Lawyers Being White
The plaintiff's suit is like if RBG's answer was 'When there are 11.' -
Law Schools
The Trend Of Diverse Law School Applications Goes Upward
Keep sending in those applications! -
Law Schools
Affirmative Action Bans Have A Tremendous Impact On Law School Diversity
It's going to get even worse. -
Courts
SFFA v. Harvard Ruling Trickles Down To Courtroom Oral Argument Procedure
Not a big loss, but the trend isn't good. - Sponsored
Tackling Deposition Anxiety: How AI Is Changing The Way Lawyers Do Depositions
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Law Schools
Entitled Law School Hopeful With 150 LSAT Blames Imaginary Black Person For His Rejection Letters. Deletes Twitter Account In Shame.
Not failing upward? Blame affirmative action. -
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Courts
Supreme Court Tells Blum Group To Fight West Point On Their Own
Hope they brought the big guns. -
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Law Schools
Law Schools Worried About What Admissions Will Look Like Now That The Supreme Court Killed Affirmative Action
Law schools are trying, but....
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Law Firm Business Development Is More Than Relationship Building
Luxury, Lies, And A $10 Million Embezzlement
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Law Schools
The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ban Really Gummed Up The Law School Admissions Process
Things are moving much more slowly than usual when it comes to getting into law school. -
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Government
We Might Not Even Need The Supreme Court To Get Rid Of Legacy Admissions
Is Congress taking back its role as legislator? -
Biglaw
Winston & Strawn The Next Target Of Blum And His Diversity Haters
Hoping That Third Time's The Failure. -
Law Schools
Enough With The Diversity 'Consciousness Raising.' Let's See Some Action
Once it clicks that Rage Against The Machine did all that shining a light for their fans to then complain they 'went woke,' consciousness raising might not be enough. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.23
* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]
* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]
* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]
* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]
* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]
* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]