Week News

• Judge claims lawyer threatened to release her intimate photos for case leverage; he alleges extortion-READY

• The Society interview Christina Blacklaws: ‘It’s deplorable there aren’t more top women in law’

• Ex-supreme court justice defends those who break assisted dying law

• President did not exert executive privilege to redact portions of Mueller report, Barr says

• Tribunal restores benefit payments to acid attack victim

• Bar pass rate for 2016 law grads shows little movement; which law schools did best?

• Chelsea Manning to remain in jail after appeals court denies bail request

Month News

• Stop comparing your startup to TurboTax

• Thank EU for the music – not the grasping tech giants

• Big decrease in serious crimes by California youths leaves juvenile halls unfilled; some call for closure

• DC Circuit refuses to block ban on bump stocks; SCOTUS also had refused to intervene

• Undercover police conned us into ‘relationships’. We need a judge who understands

• 36-count indictment accuses lawyer Avenatti of stealing from clients; max sentence could be 335 years

Year News

• Let lawyers use for-profit referral services, says Illinois disciplinary agency

• The law must change on upskirting. One Tory MP won’t stop us

• ABA president travels to South Texas, working to fulfill ABA’s promise to reunite families

• Anti-Kavanaugh protesters held rally across from ABA’s Chicago headquarters

• Geoffrey Rush trial: Eryn Jean Norvill alleges actor touched her breast, left her frightened