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No Judging the Judges as Trump Administration Freezes ABA Out From Federal Court Nominees Ratings
By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
There has long been tension between the American Bar Association's vetting of federal judicial nominees and the Trump administration. This is somewhat...
Exodus of Partners Continues From Paul Weiss
By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
In March 2025, the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) faced threats to its ability to interact with the federal...
A Former Legal Giant Gets 87 Months in Prison for Wire Fraud Convictions
By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
He was known for being the lawyer who took on some of the largest companies in the country to fight for the rights of the little guy. With his sentence of 87...
Alabama's Million-Dollar Prison Defense Team Caught Using Fake Citations
By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
Alabama pays millions to private attorneys to defend them from some of their alleged bad deeds—but now, that defense has gone spectacularly wrong. A federal...
Referee Suggests COVID-19 'Brain Fog' Responsible for Attorney's Courtroom Transgressions
By Kit Yona, M.A. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
Coronavirus disease 2019, better known as COVID-19, hit the entire world in 2020. It effectively shut down the planet as scientists and researchers sought...
A Mental Health Check-In for the Legal Profession
By Vaidehi Mehta, Esq. | Reviewed by Joseph Fawbush, Esq. | Last updated on
May was Mental Health Month, and if you’re an attorney (or even a law student) you won’t be surprised that there remains quite the mental health epidemic in...