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Grow Your Practice Through Referrals and Public Education

The Lawyer Referral Service helps attorneys receive referrals tailored to their practice areas and geographic preferences. The "Know Your Legal Rights" column offers another way to...

Lawyer Discipline

The Office of Lawyer Regulation, an agency of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, provides these summaries.

Supreme Court Urges BCI to Establish National Legal Academy for Continuing Education of Advocates

Supreme Court calls for continuing education of advocates and proposes a National Legal Academy to strengthen professional standards and legal practice.

Grow Your Legal Career: Opportunities to Volunteer, Network, and Lead

From community service and statewide networking events to leadership roles and mentoring programs, these offerings help students build connections and gain practical experience.

How to Structure a Fair Law Firm Origination Credit Policy

Law Deans and Principles of Professional Independence

Stories in the ABA Journal and Law.com cover a recent letter sent by former and current law deans to “former judges John E. Jones III, from the U.S. District Court for the Middle D...

USA at 250: The Promise, the Practice, and the Lawyer's Role

The rule of law is not inherited; it is earned. Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, the question is not whether the founders got it right. The questi...

Why? the Details of the Alberta Regulated Professions Neutrality Act

The Alberta legislature passed two bills in December 2025 that are particularly important to the regulation of the legal profession. The many separate ramifications of the Justice...

‘Law on Trial’: Making a case for moral reflection in law practice

Law professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu dissects the shortcomings of the American legal system and holds it to a fairer, more humane standard.

The Legal Profession’s Weakening Grip on Law Society Governance

In late April, two groundbreaking decisions concerning legal regulators in Canada were announced — one by a court, and one by a law society. The first decision came from the Britis...

Licensure Reform

Brian Gallini, Dean and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law, argues persuasively that dramatic expansion in the number of ways to gain a law license should caus...

So You Want To Become A Lawyer? [Part I] – On Faith, Duty, And The Legal Profession

Before applying to law school, I spoke to Muslim lawyers for advice and mentorship. One lawyer I connected with was based in the U.K. and worked in human rights, advocating for Mus...

‘Trade or Commerce’ as a Threshold Issue Under Chapter 93A: Lessons for Professional Services Litigation

In Vuuren v. Lowenstein Sandler LLP, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge entered summary judgment for the defendant in the plaintiff’s Chapter 93A, Section 11 claim based on the p...

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association wh...

So You Want To Become A Lawyer? [Part II] – How To Ready Yourself For A Career In Law

Previously (in Part I), I discussed some of the rationale behind the pressing need for Muslims to pursue law and emerge as excellent, well-rounded practitioners grounded in the Isl...

NALP Foundation and NALP release study on Law School Alumni Employment and Satisfaction

Press release: The NALP Foundation and NALP today released their 13th joint study, Law School Alumni Employment and Satisfaction, covering the Class of 2022. This annual study exam...

The Work Is Waiting: How To Get Involved And Lead Voluntary Bar Associations

Volunteering for a bar association gives you a broader view of the profession. It reminds you that the law is a community. The post The Work Is Waiting: How To Get Involved And Lea...

What Law School Grads Need To Know Now: The Second To Last Generation?

Career advice to recent law school graduates from the lawyer who built the world's largest law firm.

Managing Risk | Knowing Your Limits: A Lesson from the Track (and the Law Office)

Not every race is meant for every runner. And truth be told, that's a lesson most lawyers need to learn as well, because there's a difference between diligence and overextension. O...

June CLE: Build Practical Skills in Probate, Special Education Law, and PTO Compliance

Three upcoming PINNACLE CLE programs offer practical guidance on probate administration, special education law, and PTO policies. Learn how to help clients make sound decisions whe...

What Attorneys Really Think About Their Profession

Law360 Pulse asked attorneys for their thoughts on what being an attorney is actually like — what they love about their job, what they see as the biggest misconceptions about a car...

Article: Legal Education and the Rule of Law by Dean Christiana Ochoa

Dean Christian Ochoa (Maurer School of Law Indiana University-Bloomington) has an article (Legal Education and the Rule of Law ) about legal education that is well worth reading —...

Still a Lawyer, Not a Practitioner: Schindler v. Squires and the Reach of Practice Before the Office

A pro se patent attorney asks the Federal Circuit to undo his two-year USPTO suspension for helping an excluded practitioner keep practicing. Continue reading this post on Patently...

Pro-Se Attorneys and Judiciary Law 487

There are limits on when a Judiciary Law 487 claim applies, and Nimkoff v Waldbaum2026 NY Slip Op 04203 July 1, 2026 Appellate Division, Second Department holds that one of them i...