In today’s column, law professors are urging the ABA to drop its bar passage standard during the pandemic; the head of the National Conference of Bar Examiners talked recently about the snafus of holding a bar exam during Covid-19; two Texas defense attorneys were indicted for allegedly soliciting the murder of another defense attorney who was married to the ex-husband of one of the pair; the FTC accused “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli of carrying out an anticompetitive scheme from jail.
- Leading off, as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer makes big lateral moves in the U.S. despite the pandemic, lawyers at its U.K. ...