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Top Supreme Court attorney is retiring

At the Lectern

The Supreme Court’s Chief Supervising Attorney announced last week that he is retiring. Jake Dear, whose duties include heading Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye’s legal staff, has worked at the court for 40 years and has been in the top position since 2007. See here , here , and here.).

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The Chief Justice’s final presser

At the Lectern

Yesterday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye held her last annual meeting with the press before her retirement in one month. ” She wondered whether the courts in the future will see mostly cases where the litigants can’t afford alternative forums. At The Lectern attended the virtual conference. Related: here and here.)

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How a veteran sketch artist offers a peek into oral arguments in the work-from-home era

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Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades , Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments. The world closed in to keep the virus out, and so did the court. Art Lien is one of them. Lien changed that.

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Path To Well-Being In Law Podcast: Episode 6 – Tim Carroll & Margaret Odgen

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Margaret Ogden serves as the Wellness Coordinator in the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia, where she’s tasked with improving the mental health and wellbeing of Virginians in the legal profession through education, regulation and outreach. The Path to Well-Being in Law.

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ABA Annual Meeting 2019

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Returning home with 15 episodes (linked below), it was our pleasure to interview the leadership, network news personalities, federal judges, ABA Medal winners, top presenters, singers , and more who participated in one of the legal profession’s largest gatherings. Immigration Courts and Due Process. Blighted Real Property Transactions.

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ABA Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting 2017

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The professional milieu was what one might expect from the top echelons of practice. The topics discussed were vast and the speakers top notch. Department of Justice, Federal Reserve Board, Office of the Attorney General from various states, US District Court judges, top U.S. Hailing from the biggest U.S.

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Oral argument suggests narrow ruling to uphold disputed tax

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Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to reject a challenge to the constitutionality of a provision of a 2017 corporate tax reform law that taxes the undistributed profits from U.S. shares of foreign corporations that are majority American owned. shareholders own at least 50% of the stock. shareholders.