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☆ Inside the litigation election, where lawyers on both sides are duking it out in the courts like never before
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

"While Democrats continue to interfere in our election and dismantle election safeguards, we are protecting the vote for all Americans." The Trump campaign declined to comment for this story, referring BI to Zunk's statement. Harris' campaign referred BI to a previous interview with a campaign spokesperson discussing litigation strategy. AdvertisementDemocrats, they say, have already intervened in "dozens of baseless Republican lawsuits to debunk their lies and defeat them in court." Advertisement"The Republican litigation strategy doesn't seem to follow any particular rules, but really is an attempt to throw anything against the wall and see if anything sticks," he said.

Persons: Trump, —, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, John Hardin Young, Sandler Reiff Lamb, Young, Harris, Claire Zunk, Dana Remus, Joe Biden's, Monica Guardiola, Marc Elias, Patrick T, Fallon, Sophia Lin Lakin, Lakin, graf, Jason Torchinsky, Holtzman Vogel, Torchinsky, Elias, It's Organizations: Republicans, Democrats, Service, Republican, Democratic, Trump, Republican National Committee, RNC, Trump Republicans, Business, White, Democratic National, District of Columbia, Stanford, MIT, American Bar Association, Getty, Appeals, American Civil Liberties Union, The ACLU Locations: Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina

☆ AI could become a lawyer's greatest help in the courtroom
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Matthew S. Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Courtesy of Danielle BeneckeA lawyer's copilotFounded in 1949, Baker McKenzie has over 6,500 lawyers working in 70 offices worldwide. The firm's work building generative AI to produce legal draft advice for high-volume employment-law questions recently won an award from Law.com. Courtesy of Jake HellerAI won't replace lawyersThere's another fear likely to push lawyers toward AI: other lawyers. Lawyers might also turn to AI to address a force meant to tame AI: regulation. "I think in three to five years, not using AI for legal work will be tantamount to refusing to use online search for legal work today," Ziniti said.

Persons: Michael Cohen, Donald Trump, Cohen, isn't, Danielle Benecke, Baker McKenzie, Benecke, Cecilia Ziniti, It's, copilot, Ziniti, Cecilia Ziniti Ziniti, CoCounsel, CoCounsel isn't, Jake Heller, Thomson, Heller, they'd, it's Organizations: Google, Law.com, Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, AI's, IBM, CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters, Times, American Bar Association

☆ McConnell suggests 'discipline' for Dem senators pressuring Supreme Court over Alito flags
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., suggested Wednesday that the Supreme Court should punish at least two Democratic senators over their calls for Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from key cases related to former President Donald Trump. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island are bound by court rules that "provide for discipline against those who engage in conduct unbecoming an officer of the court," McConnell said on the Senate floor. But McConnell singled out Blumenthal and Whitehouse because they are members of the Supreme Court bar. They are therefore "potentially engaged in unethical professional conduct before the court," McConnell said of Blumenthal and Whitehouse, both of whom are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The responses from Roberts and Alito confirm that they also viewed the communication as public, Whitehouse added.

Persons: Mitch McConnell, luncheons, Samuel Alito, Donald Trump ., Richard Blumenthal of, Sheldon Whitehouse, McConnell, Alito, Blumenthal, Whitehouse, John Roberts, Leonard Leo, Roberts, Dick Durbin, Clarence Thomas, Wednesday's Organizations: Democratic, Donald Trump . Sens, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Trump, American, CNBC, Wall Street, Capitol, Durbin Locations: Ky, Washington, Rhode, Virginia

☆ Asian Americans were left off judge benches last year, employment data shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

That means the iconic profession is not only drastically underrepresenting Asian Americans, but historical data shows the community isn't making up ground like other minority populations. While the federal data may shock those outside the community, it connects to a long-documented problem of those who have historically held power mentoring others who look like them. Yet there has never been an Asian American judge appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. A Washington Post analysis found Biden has appointed the most non-white judges of any president, and approximately 14% have been Asian. It's also worth noting that the share of Asian judges has jumped around over the past decade rather than moving in a straight line.

Persons: Goodwin Liu, Lance Ito, Simpson, Biden, It's Organizations: Getty, U.S, Supreme, American Bar Association Locations: Asian, Washington

☆ The Titanic may play a role in who pays for the Baltimore bridge collapse. Here’s why
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —The massive cargo ship crash that destroyed the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday will probably cost various shipping companies and insurers billions of dollars in damages. “Maritime law is steeped in antiquity. Maritime law is rooted in the need to settle disputes and enforce rules between different peoples, even before there was the concept of countries with definitive laws. That rule, known as general average, is still a guiding principle of maritime law. “it’s just a fundamental part of the way that the shipping business works,” said Martin Davies, director of the Maritime Law Center at Tulane University.

Persons: Francis Scott Key, ” Sean Pribyl, “ It’s, ”, Rhodes, Rhodians, Pribyl, “ it’s, Martin Davies, ” Davies, Dali, “ don’t, Davies, Chugging, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, Holland, CNN, American Bar, Titanic, Star Line, White Star, Maritime Law Center, Tulane University, Grace Ocean, ”, Repair Company, Flint & Co, Supreme Locations: New York, Brooklyn, Baltimore, American, Great Britain, Southampton, Singapore, . Flint

☆ Ex-Google software engineer charged with stealing AI technology while working with Chinese companies
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China, the Justice Department said Wednesday. "The theft of innovative technology and trade secrets from American companies can cost jobs and have devastating economic and national security consequences." Within weeks of the theft starting, prosecutors say, Ding was offered the position of chief technology officer at an early-stage technology company in China that touted its use of AI technology. The indictment says Ding traveled to China and participated in investor meetings at the company and sought to raise capital for it. Three days later, Google officials learned that he had presented as CEO of one of the Chinese companies at an investor conference in Beijing.

Persons: Linwei Ding, Ding, General Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, Lisa Monaco, Wray Organizations: Google, Justice Department, American Bar Association Conference, Department, Technology, Force, Northern District of, supercomputing, Prosecutors Locations: China, Newark , California, San Francisco, People's Republic of China, United States, Northern District, Northern District of California, Beijing

Lawmakers in more than a half-dozen U.S. states are pushing laws to define antisemitism, triggering debates about free speech and bringing complicated world politics into statehouses. Bill supporters say that more than 30 states have adopted the definition in some way over the years. Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted, several states have passed resolutions condemning Hamas and voicing support for Israel. Some protesters gathered in the capitol in Indiana this month before the House unanimously advanced a bill incorporating the definition there. How colleges are acting to prevent or stop antisemitism on campus has become a hot-button issue across the country.

Persons: ”, Esther Panitch, Brian Kemp, Kenneth Stern, Stern, “, Israel, Bill, —, Brian Hauss, they're, Fred Deutsch, Lara Freidman, Ruwa, Yaqoub Saadeh Organizations: Democratic, Georgia's, Republican Gov, Holocaust, Alliance, Bard Center, Jewish Voice, Peace, CAIR, Defamation League, Israel, U.S . State Department, American Jewish Committee, U.S . Congress, American Bar Association, ACLU, Rep, Republican, Foundation for Middle East, Georgia State Rep, Eastern Student Association, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania Locations: statehouses, Israel, Gaza, Georgia, Indiana, South Dakota, New York, Iowa, Virginia, U.S, Palestinian

☆ Why it's now easier for student loan borrowers to get rid of their debt in bankruptcy court
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Richard Levine | Corbis News | Getty ImagesFor decades, it was nearly impossible for student loan borrowers to walk away from their debt in bankruptcy court. Congress has set a high bar for discharging student loan debt in bankruptcy. Under the new process, student loan borrowers complete a form to assist the government in evaluating their discharge request. "It makes it easier for student loan borrowers to qualify for bankruptcy discharge by clearly setting out the policy," said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. Federal student loan borrowers have several ways to reduce their debt burden, including payment plans with $0 monthly payments and economic hardship and unemployment deferments.

Persons: Richard Levine, That's, Biden, —, Mark Kantrowitz, Kantrowitz Organizations: United State Bankruptcy Court Southern District of NY, Corbis, U.S . Department of Justice, U.S . Department of Education, American Bar Association, Consumer, Federal

☆ Opinion: How judges can outmaneuver Trump’s delay tactics
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Luckily, there are a few ways judges can stop his delay tactics, if they are willing to apply them. Cannon is the Florida federal judge presiding over the case examining whether Trump mishandled classified documents at his Florida home. In this way, if judges apply the usual court process, Trump can keep the cases marching in place for years — until after the 2024 election in particular. It used to be that you would appeal after you lost a case in the trial court. They have the tools in the Trump cases to rectify the problem.

Persons: Thomas G, CNN —, Aileen Cannon’s, Donald Trump, Thomas Moukawsher, Thomas Moukawsher It’s, Cannon, Trump, Trump hasn’t, ”, can’t, don’t, hasn’t, Tanya Chutkan Organizations: American Bar, CNN, Trump Locations: Connecticut, Florida, Washington, Georgia

☆ Opinion | Trump’s Lawyers Should Have Known Better
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With so many lawyers involved in the Watergate criminal scheme, the American Bar Association started requiring law schools to provide ethics instruction or risk losing their accreditation. In Fulton County, Ga., three of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers — Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis — have now pleaded guilty to crimes in service of Mr. Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election and stay in the White House. All three have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the sprawling state RICO case against Mr. Trump. Two other Trump lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, still face criminal charges in the Georgia case. If Mr. Trump’s 2020 racket was “a coup in search of a legal theory,” as one federal judge put it, these lawyers provided the theory, and the phony facts to back it up.

Persons: Richard Nixon’s, John Dean, Nixon’s, Donald Trump’s, — Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis —, Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Chesebro, Powell Organizations: American Bar Association, House, Trump Locations: Fulton County ,, Georgia

☆ Ukrainians and allies descend on Washington with one main goal: Make Republicans listen
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Ukrainians and their American allies are coming to Washington, DC, this week to meet with lawmakers. The goal is to convince Congress to back President Joe Biden's call for $60 billion more in aid. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . "Because if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, it'll embolden Russia to take even bigger steps, and it'll embolden other adversaries." Is it going to keep them from saying negative things in public about Ukraine so that other people can overhear it?

Persons: Joe Biden's, —, Anastasiia Pereverten, couldn't, Liz Cheney, Pereverten, That's, Sen, John Barasso, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy, Ukraine —, Biden, Kyiv —, Anna Bereznyak, Republican who's, Donald Trump, Bereznyak, Wisdom, Trump, Russia's, Paige Barrows, Barrows, gosh, they've Organizations: House Republicans, Service, University of Wyoming, American Coalition for, Ukrainian American Bar Association, Genocide, Kremlin, CBS, Ukraine, Kyiv, Israel, Republican, Republican Party, US Peace Corps, Democratic White House Locations: Washington, Kyiv, America, Wyoming, Pereverten, Russia, Ukraine, Denver, Laramie, Mexico, Ukrainian, American Coalition for Ukraine, Crimea, Israel, Gaza, United States, Texas, Austin, Europe, it'll, Olathe , Kansas, Kansas, another's, American

The arguments in the Michel case could preview issues to come as the technology makes a rapid advance. “We think AI technology is gong to completely revolutionize the legal field by making it faster and cheaper to get complex answers to legal questions and research,” Katz said. “At bottom, the AI program failed Kenner, and Kenner failed Michel. Using it for closing arguments is complicated because of the many factors that develop over the course of a trial, he said. Generative AI, meanwhile, also sometimes produces “hallucinations,” statements that initially read as if they are accurate but are not.

Persons: ” Michel, Michel, David Kenner, Suge Knight, Snoop Dogg, Kenner, Diddy, Peter Zeidenberg, It's, Neil Katz, “, ” Katz, Sharon Nelson, “ It's, ”, Zeidenberg, Barack Obama’s, Trump, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Sessions, John Villasenor Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Associated Press, Sensei Enterprises, Justice Department, U.S, University of California, American Bar Association Locations: Malaysian, China, Los Angeles

But the challenge facing Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee in Georgia is unlike any of the others. For one, he is the only judge so far to allow television cameras in the courtroom to broadcast hearings and any trials. And the trials will play out in a battleground state that Trump narrowly lost in 2020. But the experience of some judges who have been thrust into the public eye point to potential pitfalls and dangers ahead for the 34-year-old Georgia native. “Hopefully, you have a life outside the law,” Cahill said during his talk in Reno about handling high-profile cases.

Persons: Peter Cahill, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, you’re, ”, Donald Trump, Scott McAfee, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, McAfee, Aileen Cannon, Reggie Walton, Lewis ” Scooter, Libby, Dick Cheney, Roger Clemens, “, Lance Ito, Simpson, Critics, Jay Leno ”, Elizabeth Scherer, Nikolas Cruz, Cruz, Scherer, Eric Davis, Tanya Chutkan, Ito, Judy, he's, Han Chung, Chung, Trump's, E, Susan Garsh, Aaron Hernandez, ” Garsh, Fani Willis, Trump, Willis, — Chutkan, Barack Obama, Juan Manuel Merchan, Merchan, Chutkan, Brian Kemp, Kemp, ” Cahill Organizations: ATLANTA, Minnesota, National Judicial College, New York, Trump White House, Trump, Georgia, Senior, Associated Press, Los Angeles Superior, Delaware, Systems, Fox News, American Bar Association, U.S, New Yorker, McAfee, Massachusetts, New England Patriots, AP, Patriots, University of Georgia, Republican, Federalist Society, Emory University, Georgia Aquarium Locations: Minneapolis, Reno , Nevada, Fulton, Georgia, U.S, Florida, Los, Parkland, Washington, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, Reno

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Persons: Adrienne Hines, You've, Hines, Will, you've Organizations: United, Courts, National Foundation, Credit Counseling, American Bar Association Locations: Ohio, Chevron

☆ Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Challenge Legal Ethics - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Deborah Pearlstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But at the same time, the key role lawyers played in buttressing the former president’s plans speaks to a troubling crisis in the legal profession. The lawyers he conspired with — whose alleged conduct breached a host of rules of professional ethics, in addition to provisions of criminal law — did not emerge from whole cloth. for the first time demanded that students at any American law school wishing to retain its A.B.A. Members of both parties said they supported the goal: to make sure government lawyers consistently uphold the highest standards of professionalism in the public service. Dozens of other lawyers who represented Mr. Trump in election litigation now face misconduct allegations in state disciplinary proceedings nationwide.

Persons: —, Richard Nixon’s, lawyering, Gerald Ford’s, Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, Trump Organizations: American Bar Association, Washington , D.C Locations: Clarks, California, Washington ,

☆ Top regulators defend stricter merger guidelines, call 'hysteria' overblown
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON — Two of the nation's top corporate regulators on Thursday defended new guidelines on merger enforcement that have attracted pushback from the business community. "Which mergers go through and which ones do not can be hugely consequential for people's lives," Lina Khan, Federal Trade Commission chair said at an event hosted by the nonprofit American Economic Liberties Project. Khan was joined at the event by Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's antitrust division. "I think a lot of the hysteria is perhaps overblown, that we're not blocking every merger," Kanter said. The draft guidelines were released jointly by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in July.

Persons: Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, Lina Khan, Khan, Jonathan Kanter, Kanter, There's, Sen, Elizabeth Warren, Neil Bradley, Bradley Organizations: Antitrust, Federal Trade, American Bar Association Antitrust, Marriott Marquis, Washington , D.C, WASHINGTON —, Federal Trade Commission, American Economic Liberties, Justice, Justice Department's Antitrust, Albertsons, U.S . Chamber of Commerce, DOJ, FTC Locations: Washington ,

☆ American Bar Association Votes to Amend Rule on Client Due Diligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Dylan Tokar | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her the lawmaker. It is not clear the extent to which her daughter holds power of attorney. As The Los Angeles Times previously reported, a limited power of attorney agreement can be granted in matters of convenience. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter, Katherine Feinstein, signed for her mother on a lawsuit, indicating the existence of some kind of power of attorney agreement. Braccini also raised doubts about the existence of a power of attorney agreement.

Persons: Sen, Dianne Feinstein's, Katherine Feinstein, Democratic Sen, Katherine, Richard Blum, Feinstein, Power, Katherine Feinstein's, Blum's, Steven P, Mark R, Klein, Marc Scholvinck, Braccini, Mitch McConnell's, Gray Organizations: The New York Times, Service, Privacy, Democratic, San Francisco Fire, Los Angeles Times, American Bar Association, Superior, of, New York Times, United, Associated Press Locations: San Francisco, Wall, Silicon, of California, Washington

☆ The US economy's brief moment of slowing inequality might be on its way out
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Income inequality has narrowed in the US, with low-wage workers receiving raises during the pandemic. This trend has been tapering off, though labor market competition has benefited wage growth. This was thanks to pre-pandemic minimum wage legislation, coupled with higher raises for lower wage workers in the tumultuous years that followed. Although low-wage workers have slightly narrowed the gap, corporate profits have boomed, allowing those at the very top to stay separated from the rest. In June 2022, low-wage workers saw 7.2% wage growth from the prior year, falling to 6.5% in June 2023.

Persons: It's, David Autor, Ford, Autor, Harry Holzer, John LaFarge Jr, SJ, Georgetown University's, Holzer, Biden, " Holzer Organizations: Service, National Bureau of Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, MIT Department of Economics, American Bar Association, Public, Georgetown, Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public, Federal Reserve Bank of, Economic Policy Institute Locations: Wall, Silicon, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

☆ FTC and DOJ lay out new rules for merger review to reflect a digital economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced on Wednesday new long-awaited guidelines on how they will enforce merger law. Almost two years ago, the FTC voted to withdraw the previous version of the vertical merger guidelines released in 2020, citing flaws. A vertical merger is a transaction between two businesses that are often in different parts of the supply chain in an industry, according to the FTC. Microsoft's proposed $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard is an example of a vertical merger, because Microsoft distributes games through its Xbox consoles and streaming services, while Activision creates the games. On the call with reporters, the FTC official and a senior DOJ official said the guidelines reflect their updated approach to enforcing merger law, emphasizing the law itself has not changed.

Persons: Antitrust Jonathan Kanter, Lina Khan, Microsoft's, Jonathan Kanter, they're Organizations: Antitrust, Federal Trade, American Bar Association Antitrust, Marriott Marquis, Washington , D.C, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice Antitrust, FTC, Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, Activision, Big Tech, DOJ, Facebook, Democratic, CNBC, YouTube Locations: Washington ,

☆ He crushed the bar exam, but the legal profession remains disproportionately White
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Meron Moges-Gerbi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In most states you would have to get at least a 260 score on the bar exam to pass. This year the minimum passing score for the Maryland bar exam is 266, according to the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The LSAT costs more than $200 and the bar exam is close to $1,000. The non-profit also offers programs to introduce undergraduate and high school students to law school and other legal career opportunities. Those responsibilities can lead to less time to prepare for the bar exam, which is extremely important because the bar exam decides how well you are prepared for the exam and not how well you know the law, George said.

Persons: Matthew Graham, Thurgood Marshall, Marshall, Graham, ” Graham, Ciara Graham, Celine Graham, Genise Thomas, I’ve, Verna Williams, It’s, ” Williams, Williams, Angela Winfield, Winfield, “, ” Winfield, ” “, Erika George, ” George, George, Ciara, Celine, Matthew, Genise Thomas Graham, Black, doesn’t Organizations: CNN, Black, Alpha Phi Alpha, American, American Bar Association, National Conference of Bar, Maryland, Washington DC, “, The Law, Princeton, University of Utah’s, Quinney College of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law Locations: Baltimore , Maryland, Maryland

☆ The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling could hurt the job prospects for candidates of color
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Chandelis Duster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court’s landmark decision shooting down affirmative action could hurt the college-to-career pipeline many companies lean on to diversify their ranks. The Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling could make it even harder for those efforts to bear fruit. Elite schools offer opportunities like networking, graduate resources and mentoring, as well. Not being admitted to elite schools could thus harm many candidates of color. Legal, medical fields still lack diversityIn the legal profession, for example, law schools are key for the pipeline to clerkships and even judgeships.

Persons: ”, Cara McClellan, McClellan, White, Joni Hersch, ” Hersch, Hersch, you’ve, Bryan Cook, ’, Christopher L, Eisgruber Organizations: CNN, The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Black, Fortune, Racial, Civil Justice Clinic, Apple, Google, Starbucks, Procter, Gamble, American Medical Association, AMA, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Vanderbilt University, Lumina Foundation, Gallup, Higher Education, Elite, Education, Urban Institute, American Bar Association, National Association for Law, American Bar Federation, Internal, ” Princeton University, University

Those figures are now 20% at Berkeley Law and 15% at Michigan Law. The Association of American Law Schools on July 10 is convening a virtual conference focused on admissions in a post-affirmative action landscape, chaired by Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Alongside strategies to recruit and admit diverse students, Zearfoss said the changing demographics of the law school applicant pool have helped Michigan Law bolster student diversity—good news for law schools now facing an affirmative action ban. The law school also prioritizes recruiting at events geared toward minority applicants and at college and universities with significant minority enrollment, Zearfoss added. Michigan Law and Berkeley Law both voluntarily withhold information about each applicant's race to ensure they comply with their state laws, admissions officials said.

Persons: Sarah Zearfoss, Erwin Chemerinsky, Edward Blum, ”, Michigan’s Zearfoss, Zearfoss, Chemerinsky, “, ” Chemerinsky, Karen Sloan, Leigh Jones Organizations: U.S, Supreme, University of Michigan Law School, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley Law, American Bar Association, Michigan Law's, ABA, Michigan Law, Association of American Law Schools, Berkeley, Fair Admissions, Harvard University, University of North, Asian, Fair, Association of American Medical Colleges, American Dental Association, Law, Thomson Locations: Michigan, California, American, Sarah Zearfoss , Michigan, University of North Carolina, U.S

☆ Opinion | Can Judge Cannon Preside Fairly Over the Trump Trial?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

JahnsHemet, Calif.To the Editor:I was as disgusted as anyone by Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling last year awarding Donald Trump a special master to review documents seized by the Justice Department. I think it would be appropriate for her to recuse herself based on the appearance of bias she has created, along with the fact of being a Trump appointee. We liberals have no right to criticize the polarized state of American politics if we refuse to examine and report on both sides of any given issue fairly. Steve BenkoSouthport, Conn.To the Editor:We should think very carefully about whether Judge Aileen M. Cannon has a conflict of interest in adjudicating a criminal matter involving the president who appointed her. While other judges have presided over cases involving the presidents who appointed them, this one presents unprecedented issues of law, politics and legal ethics.

Persons: Aileen M, Cannon’s, Donald Trump, I’m, Trump lackey, Steve Benko, Cannon Organizations: Justice Department, American Bar Association, Duke University, University of Michigan, Trump Locations: Jahns Hemet, Calif, Steve Benko Southport, Conn, adjudicating

June 9 (Reuters) - Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge initially assigned to oversee Donald Trump's classified documents case, made headlines last year when she decided in favor of the former U.S. president at a pivotal stage of the case and was later reversed on appeal. A member of the conservative Federalist Society, Cannon had relatively little experience as a lawyer when nominated by Trump and confirmed in November 2020 to the federal bench by the U.S. Senate then led by Trump's Republican Party. An indictment was unsealed on Friday charging Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024, with illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice. The ruling was criticized by many legal observers, including William Barr, who served as attorney general under Trump. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2024, was indicted on Thursday for illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing justice.

Persons: Aileen Cannon, Donald Trump's, Cannon, Trump's, William Barr, Gibson Dunn, Rami Ayyub, Sarah N, Lynch, Luc Cohen, Jacquelyn Thomsen, Doina Chiacu, Howard Goller Organizations: Federalist Society, Trump, U.S, Senate, Trump's Republican Party, Republican, FBI, U.S . Department of Justice, University of Michigan Law School, American Bar Association, Thomson Locations: Florida, Palm Beach , Florida, Cali , Colombia, Iowa, Washington ,, Fort Pierce , Florida

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