The Legal Up blog

This week’s highlights In a competitive labor market, major law firm Goodwin Procter offers to pay for week-long vacations for their associates US Labor Board seeks remedies after alleging that Amazon illegally threatened, surveilled, and interrogated staff to prevent unionization Attorney who was ...

This week’s highlights After a judge made disparaging comments on accidental livestream, a high profile defense attorney plans to file an ethics complaint A lawyer who used Zoom’s whisper feature to feed answers to a client is ordered to receive counseling The Missouri supreme court decided that ...

This week’s highlights Report shows that demand for legal services soared in 2021, but firms still needed to raise prices to make up for pandemic-related business levels Maryland attorney sentenced to 1 year in prison for blackmailing and abusing woman he met on a sugar daddy website ABA Spring ...

This week’s highlights COVID surges are prompting federal and state courts to suspend jury trials and in-person courts, causing concern about delays and access to justice A Baltimore defense attorney was convicted of laundering more than $1 million through the firm where he worked as a partner The ...

This week’s highlights Bipartisan Supreme Court commission takes no position on terms limits or court expansion The legal industry added 2,700 jobs in November Bill to end PACER fees advances to the full senate Burnout “a real issue” as demand for legal word outpaces growth in headcount Tort Reform ...

This week’s highlights Pandemic spurred unprecedented revolution in state civil courts says new report Los Angeles Superior Court expands online dispute resolution platform to eviction cases Two national law firms announce a merger that will bring them into the Am Law 100 CA State Bar seizes online ...

This week’s highlights Parking ticket fighting app was engaged in unlicensed practice of law, FL Supreme Court finds Presidential commission divided on Supreme Court expansion, term limits Attorneys across the country are frustrated at pace of return to in-person proceedings Law firms struggle to ...

This week’s highlights Legal industry adds 4,300 jobs in September One-in-five corporate lawyers “high exhausted” says survey CA judges may critique lawyer performance, opinion says Courts can’t use remote proceedings to limit physical access, says new CA law Reuters reports that “The Queen’s ...

This week’s highlights New U.S. Supreme Court term: Abortion, gun rights, and religion on the agenda. Fears of “eviction tsunami” yet to transpire. Experts conflicted as to why. 131 federal judges heard cases involving companies in which they or their families owned stock Major accountancy firm to ...

This week’s highlights Law firms are investing in new tech, but lawyers are slow to make use of it—survey Citing speedier courts, more access CA’s Judicial Council lobbies for permanent remote courts NY begins publishing live eviction filing data, revealing gradual return of residential evictions ...