-
ABA Journal
Posts
Alito uses op-ed page to defend undisclosed free Alaska trip on private jet
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito defended his free 2008 vacation to an Alaskan fishing lodge in a column published Wednesday in the Wall Street…
Could Trump pardon himself? DOJ considered self-pardons in Nixon era
If former President Donald Trump is convicted on federal charges and then wins reelection, would he have the power to pardon himself? Two legal academics…
‘My Mom, the Lawyer’ explores women’s work and personal lives through the eyes of their children
As Michelle Browning Coughlin, of counsel at ND Galli Law in Louisville, Kentucky, was raising her two daughters, she wanted her kids to understand what…
Former Quinn Emanuel partner becomes traffic court judge and ‘Zoom master’
A former top partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has left the lucrative practice of law to become a judge in Cook County, Illinois,…
In ‘savvy move,’ Trump special counsel avoids charge that bans violators from office
Special counsel Jack Smith is taking a “fist-inside-a-kid-glove approach” in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, according to an article in…
Hunter Biden reaches plea deal to resolve tax and gun charges
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has reached an agreement with prosecutors in which he will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter…
Ex-clients accuse Trump lawyer and Cadwalader of ‘haphazard’ billing and malpractice
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and its former partner Todd Blanche “severely overbilled” two former clients who are entitled to a $1.65 million refund, a June…
Lawyer admits spending over $8.7M in investor money on Vegas gambling, lavish lifestyle
A California lawyer has agreed to a plea deal to resolve charges that she gambled away and spent more than $8.7 million in investor money…
Illinois uses grant money to encourage libraries not to ban books; law touted as first of its kind
Democrat Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed legislation that uses grant money to encourage public libraries to refrain from banning books because of “partisan or…