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Former UT Austin President Bill Powers Joins Jackson Walker

Bill Powers, former president of The University of Texas at Austin, is entering private practice as of counsel at Jackson Walker in Austin. While working for the firm for about eight hours per week, he also will still be a full-time law professor.
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National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: Google Goes After Orrick | New Trump Suit Against a Celebrity Chef

Google wants a California federal judge to force Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe to hand over documents. Lawyers for Rod Blagojevich asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to hear his challenge to his public corruption conviction. Donald Trump's going after another celebrity chef. And the American Bar Association's House of Delegates Tuesday passed a resolution that will urge law schools to better educate students about their student loans. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

ABA Delegates Endorse Transparency in Law School Loans

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging law schools to better inform students about their educational loans and how to repay that debt.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

ABA Would Ease Mental Health Screening for New Lawyers

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted overwhelmingly Monday to discourage attorney-licensing authorities from investigating would-be lawyers' mental health backgrounds during their character-and-fitness reviews.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Harvard Educated, Now Incarcerated

Suspected in a bizarre kidnapping case, a bright young lawyer took a dark turn.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Rutgers Law Merger Gets Final Sign-off

The merger joining Rutgers University's two law schools has gotten its final stamp of approval.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

ABA Rejects Pay-for-Externs Proposal, LSAT Exemption

Law students won't be allowed to receive both pay and academic credit for externships this year after all.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Risk Management Director Joins Duquesne from Pitt

Duquesne University has appointed a new director of risk management, Jennifer S. Fink, who was most recently an attorney fellow in the University of Pittsburgh's Office of General Counsel.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Big Dialysis Settlement Prompts $500K Gift to UGA Law

Plaintiffs lawyer and state representative Stacey Godfrey Evans has given her alma mater, the University of Georgia School of Law, $500,000 to fund a scholarship for law students who are first-generation college graduates.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Morning Wrap: Get a Warrant | Insider-Trading Petition | The Sound of Music Near Skadden

Lucy Koh, a California federal district judge, says the feds need a warrant to acquire historical cell phone location information from service providers. The U.S. Department of Justice wants the high court to toss a Second Circuit ruling that restricts insider-trading cases. And a street band in downtown is ruffling a few feathers in nearby offices&mdashincluding Skadden Arps lawyers. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.
4 minute read

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