Week News

• Legal industry adds 2,000 jobs in May in seesaw employment numbers

• Police who stopped fleeing black man after gun tip didn’t have reason to stop him, 9th Circuit says

• Nicaragua releases dozens of political prisoners under new amnesty law

• A year after ‘tiger mom’ law prof praised Kavanaugh in op-ed, her daughter gets clerkship with him

• Texas governor signs bill banning shutdowns of kids’ lemonade stands

• In states where inmates can vote, few exercise their right to cast ballots

• Judge orders public inquiry into abuse claims at immigration removal centre

Month News

• Food truck restrictions, including GPS requirement, can stand, state supreme court rules

• Landmarks in law Landmarks in law: Sally Bercow and the first major 'Twibel' case

• Former BigLaw partner dies on Mount Everest; he was member of ‘seven summit club,’ brother says

• Which fictional lawyer do you think is most true to life?

• Stop and searches in London soar after police powers widened

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggests supreme court will issue more 5-4 decisions

Year News

• Bishop inquiry in exchanges with Prince of Wales’s solicitors over submission

• Labour vows to restore legal aid for benefits appeal cases if elected

• Judge reprimanded for groping 3 women; he texted colleague ‘nice body for a 70 year old’

• Creating Order: Lifestyle tips for disorganized lawyers

• ABA House passes resolutions opposing legal discrimination against the LGBT community