Week News

• Want to be happy? Lawyering, buying a home and retiring early may not be the best choice, author says

• Judge told woman her nude photos should be sent only to Hugh Hefner, ethics complaint says

• ‘Patent troll’ has no clear meaning and is a protected statement of opinion, state high court says

• Monitoring of mobile phones – rights groups challenge police

• As clients scrutinize bills and unilaterally change payment terms, law firms take longer to collect

• Afternoon Briefs: Once-high-profile lawyer disbarred; prescription diet cat food lawsuit reinstated

• 3rd Circuit says lawyer isn’t liable for malpractice of husband who listed fake partnership on letterhead

Month News

• Time for some Brexit reality checks

• 2 bright spots in law-grad hiring: more BigLaw jobs, higher rate of JD-required employment

• What essay questions do you remember from the bar exam?

• Cambridge sexual misconduct rule change ‘re-victimises’ students

• Grace Tame: Tasmanian survivor of sexual assault wins the right to tell her story

• Afternoon Briefs: AG Barr blasts prosecutors and ‘prancing punks;’ self-defense bid fails for A$AP Rocky

Year News

• Prisoners age more quickly than general population, inspectors say

• Other lives Frances Mannsåker obituary

• Trump administration had statutory authority to expedite California border wall, 9th Circuit rules

• Julian Assange to appear in court after Javid signs US extradition request

• Australia has been seduced by creeping authoritarianism – and its citizens need to wake up