Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, An...

It’s Halloween week, so we’re turning off the lights and telling scary stories. But twist! These aren’t about ghosts, they’re about the legal industry in 2026. First up: how the Supreme Court let Alabama bring back a congressional map a federal court found intentionally discrimin ...  Show more

It was a rough week for the Trump administration’s relationship with credentials… and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a “lawyer,” but there was no record of her being licensed anywhere. It’s the move every law clerk has be ...  Show more

Maybe the woman who called the cops on a Black birdwatcher should try using ChatGPT to make up some fake caselaw for her appeal because the real ones aren't helping. After a year of sword rattling that higher education is "hostile to free speech" because students don't appropriat ...  Show more

Almost one in five lawyers are using AI, according to an American Bar Association survey. But there are a growing number of legal horror stories involving tools like ChatGPT, because chatbots have a tendency to make stuff up — such as legal precedents from cases that never happen ...  Show more

Professor Katherine Franke, Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to create wedding pages for same-sex couples. Labor & ...  Show more