What’s Happening in Legal | September 8
Martindale-Avvo presents What’s Happening in Legal, our bi-weekly news flying around the legal community:
- According to a new-trial request, a meddling clerk ‘betrayed her oath of office’ in Alex Murdaugh murder case
- Thomas Moukawasher, a complex litigation judge, offers 50 proposals for simplifying the courts
- A North Carolina lawyer told the disciplinary committee that her fake-client method was “permissible”
- The mean scaled score for the multiple-choice component of the bar exam sees slight increase
- The U.S. Postal Service will shortly release a commemorative stamp honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- A judge is under investigation for ‘profane, degrading’ Facebook posts
- Maine’s highest court upholds the suspension of a lawyer who urged an employee to attend his CLE classes
- The legal industry shed 4,200 jobs, falling far short of last year’s record
- The U.S. Department of Justice Federal initiative recovers over $836M in stolen COVID-19 relief funds
Check back in two weeks for another issue of Martindale-Avvo’s What’s Happening in Legal.