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Helping Hand: Swapna Reddy is helping asylum-seekers navigate the immigration system
In early 2015, Swapna Reddy volunteered for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border that…
Examining the Future: Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt are spearheading efforts to reinvent attorney licensing
For the last three decades, complaints about the bar exam were common but change was minimal. But Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt wanted to…
Finding Her Way: Jacqueline Schafer has long seen the potential of AI to help lawyers work more efficiently
Before artificial intelligence became a common legal tool, Jacqueline Schafer was hooked on it. This was back in 2018, and Schafer, a litigator who had…
Clearing Obstacles: Noella Sudbury is helping people expunge their criminal records
Noella Sudbury knew she was onto something big when she helped organize Utah’s first free “Expungement Day” in 2018. The former public defender and Goldman…
This BigLaw firm will represent Trump in appeal of hush-money conviction
Sullivan & Cromwell will represent President Donald Trump in his appeal of his conviction and sentence for falsifying business records to hide a hush-money payment…
Trump’s firing of NLRB member could lead to reconsideration of 1935 Supreme Court precedent
A challenge to a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court precedent could be brewing, after President Donald Trump fired a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations…
Indicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein can’t switch collateral, magistrate judge rules
A federal magistrate judge has denied SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein’s request to switch collateral to avoid putting at risk the Washington, D.C., home that he…
Diversity Lab changes online descriptions to emphasize fairness, avoid misconceptions
A group that works with law firms to increase diversity has made changes to its website to remove some diversity-related wording and to avoid use…