March 2020

Cadwalader Cuts Associate Pay By 25 Percent: And partners aren’t get paid at all. Midsize Firms Are Also Slashing Salaries: To protect the firm’s viability. Pryor Cashman Furloughs Associates: They’re hopeful they can be rehired, but who knows when that’ll happen. Harvard Law School Moves On-Campus Recruitment: Now it’ll be in January. Notre Dame’s COVID-19 […]

Though your tenure on the Court may be brief. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/U67y9iZS8wU/

Some good news among the COVID-19 crap storm. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/7wmTfYm-k-s/

The legal profession as we know it is in for a rude awakening. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/ntbpXxIqyig/

Professors: You might not know this, but your law students are different now. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/3y5DGprQGDo/

They are the legal version of Willy Wonka’s golden ticket: the cards (in colors that change from day to day) distributed in front of the Supreme Court that give the people holding them access to one of the seats set aside for the public at that morning’s oral arguments. With only 50 seats guaranteed for […]

Christian Nationalists are demanding that government be forced to fund religious schools in the same SCOTUS term that religious schools are arguing government must remove itself from religious education. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/sqTnRfFHXEY/

SCOTUSblog is looking for a new editor, to start work in July 2020. The editor’s responsibilities will include editing every post that is published on the blog, writing a daily round-up of news and commentary related to the Supreme Court, organizing and supervising special projects, and working with the blog manager to identify authors for […]

Yesterday, for the second time since its building closed to the public, the Supreme Court issued opinions via its website rather than from the bench, along with orders from last week’s conference. The justices added one case to their merits docket next term: Brownback v. King, in which they will decide whether a ruling for […]

In a 7-2 decision announced today, the Supreme Court held that a safe berth clause in a particular maritime charter party agreement constituted a warranty of safety, making the charterer, who designated the unloading berth, liable for costs to clean up an oil spill. In concluding that the charter party agreement allocated such a risk […]