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So did Cravath, the usual first mover on associate bonuses, beat the Simpson Thacher scale? Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/QgIbCoVtttA/story01.htm

* 2014 Moot Court rankings. Florida Coastal? Really? Good for them. [The National Jurist] * Young lawyers are making legal mobile apps. Great, now I’m going to start getting notifications about helping friends out with their LawVille game. [TaxProf Blog] * Judge sends motivational tweet, no big deal. No judge sends motivational tweet DURING A […]

Protesting at the funeral of a fallen soldier. Lying about your military record. Violent video games for children. Making videos about dogfighting. In the past few years, the Supreme Court has held that the First Amendment protects all of these forms of expression, even when very unpopular or offensive. Next week the Justices will hear […]

Leondra R. Kruger, who argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court while in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office, will be nominated to a seat on the California Supreme Court, Governor Edmund G. Brown said in a public statement. Since 2013, Kruger has been serving in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel as a […]

Its ownership is still up in the air, and now its president walks off the job. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/-rhHt5K6v-o/story01.htm

ACCRA, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission will not fully meet its Dec. 1 target for containing the virus due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, Anthony Banbury, the head of UNMEER, said on Monday. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/yWL6eD21Hm4/idAFL6N0TE3LX20141124

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nov 24 (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian border town in the restive northeast on Monday, setting fire to houses and killing an unknown number of people, witnesses and government sources said. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/5r10xwPzyWo/idAFL6N0TE3JB20141124

Pregnant women deserve respect, but it seems this U.S. Attorney won’t give it to them. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/qYZ_S3vU8EE/story01.htm

ACCRA, Nov 24 (Reuters) – The U.N. Ebola Emergency Response Mission will not fully meet its Dec. 1 target for containing the virus due to escalating numbers of cases in Sierra Leone and elsewhere, Anthony Banbury, the head of UNMEER, said on Monday. Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/AfricaNigeriaNews/~3/8pLmVnArDws/idAFL6N0TE3JZ20141124

Understanding the Supreme Court brief and oral argument; the need to state a workable rule; and how to leverage the weak links in the opposing argument. “Just the way they say, ‘Battle plans never survive contact with the enemy,’ oral argument plans never survive contact with the Court.” In this six-part interview, Eric Schnapper — […]