Trump Pressure Forces ABA Weakening of Law School DEI Standard

An American Bar Association council on Friday watered down DEI requirements for law school accreditation, as the Trump administration and Republican-led states challenge the group’s role in certifying legal education.

Anthropic Pushes Deeper Into Legal Work With Claude Updates

Anthropic PBC is angling to be a major direct provider of legal technology with its latest rollout of legal tools, extending beyond its original role as a maker of frontier large language models.

NJ Judges Say Threats to Judiciary Harm ‘American Experiment’

In nearly an hour of speeches Friday at the New Jersey State Bar Association’s annual meeting the name “Trump” wasn’t uttered, but his criticism and threats against the judiciary and law firms hung over the proceedings.

NYU Law Graduate Leniency Examined in Defamation Case Appeal

New York University Law School graduate Gideon Rapaport failed to cite any examples before Second Circuit judges Friday showing that leniency granted to self-represented litigants should apply to him, as a law student that passed the bar.

DOJ Makes Little Headway in Push to Revive Trump Law Firm Orders

The Justice Department gained little ground Thursday in its bid to broadly revive Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms, which argued the president’s goal is to chill the legal profession.

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