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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

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BARR TALK - U.S Attorney General Bill Barr is expected to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee today about the Mueller report. Due to news that broke last night, he is likely to face questions about communication he reportedly had with special counsel Robert Mueller, who took issue with Barr's letter to Congress about the report. Democrats argue that Barr has spun in President Trump's favor the report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

FALLING SHORT - Law schools aren't doing enough to help students suffering from high levels of academic stress, according to a survey of 300 recent law grads. As Karen Sloan reports, the study conducted by Kaplan Bar Review found that 40 percent of law grads believed their schools did not provide enough resources to help them with stress, and just 29 percent responded that their schools offered enough support.

DUES NEWS - The American Bar Association implements a new dues structuretoday that it hopes will boost membership numbers, which have taken a dive. In the last decade, the ABA has lost about 56,000 dues-paying members, and fewer than 200,000 of its approximately 424,000 members pay dues. Less than 13 percent of the nation's lawyers are dues-paying members. The association's general budget declined by 22 percent between 2014 and 2018, and last year it projected an additional $15 million annual loss in dues revenue without making changes.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

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New DOJ Guidance Confronts 'Effectiveness' of Compliance Programs

Will 'Free Samples' Get More Firms On-Board with Automation?

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

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WIGGLE ROOM - The EU's new copyright rules are clear as mud, say lawyers in Europe and the U.S. As Simon Taylor reports, while the 28 countries of the EU have agreed to the so-called EU Copyright Directive after 18 months of tough negotiations among themselves and with European lawmakers, the directive designed to bring clarity to rights holders and platforms in the digital age is still fraught with uncertainty. Lawyers say it contains compromises between competing interests, which leaves it open to some interpretation—and ultimately, disagreement.

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WHAT YOU SAID

“Schools will suffer consequences unless we see an uptick in the actual number of jobs.”

— KYLE MCENTEE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF LAW SCHOOL TRANSPARENCY, ON THE INCREASE IN LAW SCHOOL ENROLLMENT VERSUS THE RATE OF FIRST-YEAR NEW LAWYER HIRING.

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