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Welcome to what captivates, haunts, evokes, and surprises me each week on the planet of authorized ethics.
Glad First Monday!
Howdy from Washington DC, the place we celebrated the 4th of July and our wedding ceremony anniversary or, as we name it, our personal “Loving” day. (For extra on that, see here – present hyperlink.) We caught Beyoncé’s vacation efficiency on Friday, and it lived as much as all the robust evaluations. From the New York Instances:
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour remixes American historical past, and her personal. The celebrity’s new stage present turns reclamation, private and musical, into joyful extravaganza. … Reverence was simply certainly one of her postures, however not one she wore for lengthy. On the finish of the present, an enormous bust of the Statue of Liberty appeared onstage with a bandanna protecting its mouth, as if defending itself. One video sketch discovered a large Beyoncé stomping previous the White Home — surprise who’s hanging out in there? — then drawing a wink from the Lincoln Memorial.
Learn extra here (present hyperlink).
It was a busy week main as much as the vacation. I submitted comments in response to the Supreme Courtroom of Texas’s order requesting enter about whether or not to take care of ABA accreditation for Texas legislation colleges or pursue alternate options. Brief model: hold ABA accreditation but additionally authorize licensed paraprofessionals and group justice staff, as advisable by the Texas Entry to Justice Fee’s Working Group on Entry to Authorized Providers. Learn my full assertion here. (Full disclosure – I served on the Working Group and I’m slated for election to the ABA accrediting physique, the Council of the ABA Part of Authorized Training and Admission to the Bar, in August.)
I additionally was thrilled to hitch the primary assembly of the TEDLaw School Advisory Council. Sure, you learn that proper. TED is bringing its unbelievable platform for uplifting and sharing data to authorized schooling. The hassle is spearheaded by TED Conferences Basic Counsel Nishat Ruiter. Be taught extra here. Over a decade in the past, just a few of us at Michigan State College organized a sequence of TED-like occasions across the globe in London, NYC, Dubai, and Silicon Valley beneath the title ReInvent Legislation. These conferences helped infuse know-how, innovation, and entrepreneurship into legislation college packages throughout the nation. (For extra on that historical past, download my chapter “The ReInvent Law Archive” from the e-book Authorized Design: Dignifying Individuals in Authorized Techniques (Cambridge College Press 2024) or scroll through these memories captured at LawSites). I can’t wait to see how Nishat and her TED workforce rework instructing throughout the legislation college curriculum. Right here’s an introduction to her imaginative and prescient for TEDLaw and a preview of the TEDLaw Curriculum. Keep tuned for extra details about a TEDLaw Convention coming in 2026. And if you wish to get entangled now, take just a few moments to offer suggestions on this survey.
Now, let’s get began with the headlines. Don’t neglect to maintain scrolling all the way down to the very finish — on the primary Monday of every month, you get an extended model of the Roundup with studying suggestions, job postings, occasions, and different options. Get pleasure from!
Highlights from Final Week – Prime Ten Headlines
#1 “Trump Administration Presses On With Battle to Implement Legislation-Agency Sanctions.” From the Wall Road Journal: “The Trump administration isn’t giving up its authorized combat to implement punishing sanctions towards legislation companies following a string of resounding defeats in courtroom. The Justice Division on Monday filed discover that it was interesting a ruling that struck down an govt order towards Perkins Coie, one of many first legislation companies to be focused by a sweeping measure that directed companies to take away entry to federal buildings and strip its purchasers of presidency contracts. Decide Beryl Howell, a Barack Obama-appointee, dominated in Might that the order was unconstitutional. She is certainly one of 4 judges who’ve struck down comparable govt orders focusing on companies that President Trump perceived as being at odds along with his administration, politics or him personally. The most recent got here on Friday from Decide Loren AliKhan, who mentioned an order towards Susman Godfrey was tormented by ‘grave constitutional violations.’” Learn extra here.
#2 “‘We Should Converse Up for Justice:’ Judges from the US and Venezuela Defend the Rule of Legislation.” From the CNN present Amanpour, anchor Bianna Golodryga interviewed U.S. District Decide Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in an assault focusing on her, and Salas noticed: “You recognize, lots of people speak about this being political. It isn’t political to defend the rule of legislation. In reality, there’s a Canon that guides our judicial ethics, Canon 4. And the commentary to Canon 4 may be very clear. And I need to simply paraphrase it, however it says that judges could categorical opposition to the persecution of judges or attorneys anyplace on the planet if the choose has ascertained, after cheap inquiry, that the persecution is occasioned by battle, emphasis on battle, between the persecuted lawyer or choose, and the insurance policies or practices of the related authorities. That was written when judges have been touring internationally to talk. I don’t suppose that commentary was written for use essentially in america of America, however I do suppose it’s a Canon that judges ought to look to and take into consideration, as a result of there may be a minimum of cheap inquiry now and proof that we’re beneath assault, both assaults by recognized people or assaults by those who cover within the shadows and ship us dying threats to our chambers and ship us pizzas to our properties to attempt to inflict concern.” Learn extra of the transcript here. Watch the interview here.
#3 Monetary Penalties for Legal professionals and Legislation College students Below the “One Huge Lovely Invoice Act.” Two headlines for #3. First, from the Each day Journal: “Litigation Funding Dodges Tax Bullet in Huge Lovely Invoice. A controversial excise tax on litigation funding proceeds — as soon as feared by funders and attorneys alike — has been not noted of the Senate’s ultimate tax invoice for now, however with robust trade backing and future legislative curiosity, it could but return in one other type.” Learn extra here. Second, from Forbes: “Unprecedented Pupil Mortgage Overhaul In ‘Huge Lovely Invoice’ Passes Home, Heads To Trump. … The invoice eliminates the Graduate PLUS program, a federal scholar mortgage choice that helps fund attendance at graduate {and professional} colleges. Elevated Stafford mortgage borrowing limits would partially offset the elimination of this selection, however with lifetime caps of $100,000 for graduate college students and $200,000 for skilled college students, it could merely not be sufficient to cowl the complete value of pricy superior levels. Critics have argued that some potential college students could flip to riskier non-public scholar loans, or determine towards going to medical or legislation college altogether, which might make current shortages in high-need areas … even worse.” Learn extra here.
#4 “Federal Judges are Public Officers for Defamation Functions, Decide Guidelines.” From Reuters: “Federal judges are public officers who should meet the next bar to sue people for defamation, a federal choose concluded as he dismissed a lawsuit by certainly one of his counterparts towards onetime members of a Florida apartment affiliation’s board. U.S. District Decide Roy Altman in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, reached that conclusion in an amended opinion launched Monday that rejected claims by Senior U.S. District Decide Frederic Block. The Brooklyn-based choose had sued two former apartment affiliation board members, alleging they tried to destroy his repute by falsely accusing him of pc hacking throughout a years-long feud over renovations.” Learn extra here.
#5 Nominee for New Jersey’s Everlasting U.S. Legal professional Faces Ethics Investigations. Two headlines for #7. First, from the New York Instances: “President Trump on Tuesday nominated Alina Habba, his former marketing campaign spokeswoman and private lawyer, to be New Jersey’s U.S. legal professional for the following 4 years, a transfer that will take away her interim standing. In doing so, Mr. Trump endorsed a loyal supporter with little prosecutorial expertise to proceed main one of many nation’s prime legislation enforcement places of work. … Ms. Habba has bucked the historically nonpartisan method of U.S. attorneys. She has aggressively carried out Mr. Trump’s want to use the Justice Division to focus on his enemies, together with Democratic elected officers who oppose the president’s immigration agenda.” Learn extra here (present hyperlink). Second, from NOTUS: “Alina Habba, as soon as President Donald Trump’s private legal professional and now the interim U.S. legal professional for New Jersey, has quietly been beneath investigation by the state’s skilled regulators for greater than a 12 months — placing her license to observe legislation in danger. NOTUS obtained documents detailing the investigation, which since January 2024 has been probing what occurred when a younger waitress at Trump’s Bedminster golf membership tried to sue over sexual harassment by her supervisor.” Learn extra here.
#6 “’We May Not Stay Silent’: The Members of the Authorized Career Pursuing Ethics Investigation for AG Pam Bondi.” An op-ed from Abbe Smith (Georgetown) and Ellen Yaroshefsky (Hofstra) within the New York Legislation Journal: “Since Donald Trump’s return to workplace, each company tasked with moral oversight of the manager department, together with the Workplace of Authorities Ethics, the Workplace of Particular Counsel, and the Justice Division’s Workplace of Skilled Duty has been shut down or rendered feeble. This fast descent into an ethics-free regulatory surroundings occurred in lower than 5 months. It’s towards this backdrop that, final month, three civil society teams and 70 distinguished attorneys, legislation professors, and judges filed a grievance with the Florida Bar Affiliation, urging it to analyze U.S. Legal professional Basic and Florida Bar member Pam Bondi for her misuse of the idea of ‘zealous advocacy’ to pursue the Trump Administration’s aims. We helped draft this grievance as a result of we couldn’t stay silent whereas Bondi violated moral obligations elementary to the authorized career by repeatedly firing Justice Division attorneys, or giving them no selection however to resign, when these attorneys refused to behave unethically.” Learn extra here.
#7 “Ex-Defender Faces Skeptical Judges in Looking for Case’s Revival.” From Bloomberg Legislation: “An appeals courtroom appeared skeptical of a former federal public defender’s problem to the judiciary’s procedures for dealing with misconduct complaints. Caryn Strickland, who alleged that she was harassed by her supervisor on the Western District of North Carolina’s federal defender’s workplace, argued to the courtroom on Monday that her case entails the suitable of different judiciary staff to be in a office free from harassment.” Learn extra here.
#8 Federal Judges Are, Too Usually, ‘Above the Legislation.’ We Can Cease It.” An op-ed from Aliza Shatzman (Authorized Accountability Undertaking) within the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Because the lawyer main the cost towards office misconduct within the courts, I’m accustomed to criticizing imperious federal judges who’re above the legislation. I don’t imply they act like they’re above the legislation — they’re typically actually above the legal guidelines they interpret. Some routinely have interaction in office misconduct that will in any other case be unlawful. Nevertheless it’s not, as a result of the tens of 1000’s of legislation clerks and different staff who work for federal judges lack even fundamental protections towards discrimination. … Judiciary staff assist the day by day functioning of our courts and guarantee justice for individuals who seem earlier than the courts, all whereas missing justice and office protections themselves. Judges confer with clerks as ‘idiots,’ deal with them like private assistants slightly than esteemed legislation graduates, and hearth them for no motive. And even when judges show worrisome indicators they’re not capable of serve, they’re protected by the cloak of life tenure, and strain employees to hide their shortcomings.” Learn extra here. (Full disclosure: I’m a member of the Legal Accountability Project’s Advisory Board).
#9 “ABA’s Plan to Double Arms-On Credit for Legislation College students is Rife With Flaws, Deans Say.” From Reuters: “An American Bar Affiliation proposal to double the hands-on coursework credit for legislation college students is going through sharp criticism from some authorized educators as being too pricey, too constraining, and an overreach in controlling curriculum. Below the proposed change to the ABA’s legislation college accreditation requirements, the variety of credit for hands-on lessons, referred to as experiential studying, that college students should take would improve to 12 from the present six. College students would wish to earn a minimum of three of these credit in a clinic or a subject placement.” Learn extra here.
#10 “Fordham Legislation Helps Launch International Initiative on the Authorized Career.” From a Fordham Legislation Press Launch: “In April, Fordham Legislation, represented by Professor Bruce Inexperienced, joined six main legislation colleges on the inaugural assembly of the Global Network of Centers on the Legal Profession, a brand new international group of legislation college facilities targeted on inspecting the authorized career, authorized schooling, and authorized ethics. Inexperienced, director of Fordham Legislation’s Stein Middle for Legislation and Ethics, was joined by college members from the Harvard Legislation College Middle on the Authorized Career, the LawAhead Middle at IE Legislation College, the Bucerius Middle on the Authorized Career, Georgetown College, King’s School London, and Tilburg College, for the day-long session at IE College in Madrid, Spain. The objective of the International Community of Facilities on the Authorized Career is to ‘foster collaborative tasks amongst establishments devoted to analysis, dialogue, and coaching within the authorized subject,’ in addition to selling ‘future exchanges and collaborations relating to developments within the authorized career internationally.’” Learn extra here. (Facet notice: Efforts like this are a part of the agenda I’ve known as for in my recently-published Cardozo Legislation Evaluation article “Ethics Accountability: The Next Era for Lawyers and Judges.” Kudos to Fordham and the others main on this entrance.)
Really useful Studying
Suggestion #1: “How a Rule 23(b)(2) Class Motion May Save Legislation Corporations From Trump” by Nora Freeman Engstrom (Stanford), Jonah Gelbach (Berkeley), and David Marcus (UCLA). From the summary:
Donald Trump has issued quite a few Government Orders attacking main legislation companies, threatening to destroy their relationships with purchasers. These Government Orders are clearly illegal. But, a number of focused companies have surrendered and not using a combat, whereas a number of others even surrendered preemptively, earlier than Trump took any motion towards them. As beautiful as this acquiescence to President Trump’s abuse of energy is, there’s a easy financial logic to it, which may be understood by way of the dynamics of the basic Prisoners’ Dilemma. All legislation companies could be higher off if no agency capitulated. However a agency can reap short-term particular person advantages by capitulating. And, for a number of causes, mustering efficient collective motion, the place all companies stand shoulder-to-shoulder towards Trump, is wickedly tough. How can companies overcome this collective motion drawback? The reply: Rule 23(b)(2). Certainly, the Rule 23(b)(2) class motion machine was created exactly to unravel the kind of collective motion drawback that Trump’s onslaught has created. On this brief Essay, we define how a Rule 23(b)(2) class motion for injunctive aid might be introduced on behalf of all legislation companies in Trump’s crosshairs, defend it as the suitable technique, and clarify why each precedent and historical past assist its use.
Obtain from SSRN here.
Suggestion #2: “Kenneth Chesebro and the Ethics of Election Subversion” by Sung Hui Kim (UCLA). From the summary:
This Article examines the position of legal professional Kenneth Chesebro in orchestrating the “pretend electors plot” following the 2020 U.S. presidential election. It traces Chesebro’s transformation from a Harvard-educated lawyer with Democratic ties to a key architect of Donald Trump’s post-election technique to derail the switch of energy to Joseph Biden. Half I gives an in depth chronology of Chesebro’s actions between November 2020 and January 2021, revealing how his authorized recommendation developed from preserving authorized rights in Wisconsin to a coordinated plan to impanel alternate electors throughout a number of battleground states as a pretext for the Vice President to intervene unilaterally within the Congressional certification of the nationwide election on January 6. Half II analyzes the skilled self-discipline case towards Chesebro beneath Mannequin Rule 8.4(c). It examines the principal parts of Chesebro’s technique and argues that his conduct seems to have concerned dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation, warranting skilled self-discipline. Half III interrogates Chesebro’s ethical culpability, contending that his actions signify not merely a violation {of professional} conduct guidelines however a profound betrayal of public belief and democratic ideas. This Article concludes that Chesebro’s ethical culpability transcends his violations of the skilled conduct guidelines. By pursuing more and more aggressive methods to overturn Biden’s authentic victory with out proof of outcome-changing fraud, by providing a would-be autocrat with a blueprint for the way to subvert the collective will of the voters in contravention of the U.S. Structure, federal and state legal guidelines, and through the use of his authorized experience to hawk implausible theories designed to take advantage of procedural leverage to advance a unadorned energy seize, he demonstrated a mind-blowing willingness to undermine democracy itself. Chesebro betrayed the general public belief in ways in which current skilled conduct guidelines, which lack express duties to protect democracy, can’t adequately seize or deal with.
Learn the complete article here. (And revisit last week’s LER for information of Chesebro’s DC disbarment.)
Suggestion #3: “The Supreme Courtroom’s Specious Code of Conduct” by James Pattern (Hofstra). From the summary:
This Article, together with a previous article, The Supreme Courtroom and the Limits of Human Impartiality, publishedin the Hofstra Legislation Evaluation, initially developed out of written and spoken testimony about Supreme Courtroom ethics, transparency, and disclosure earlier than the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, the place Senator Sheldon Whitehouse proposed the Supreme Courtroom Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act to impose and implement a code of ethics for the Supreme Courtroom. … This listening to got here within the wake of an investigative report by ProPublica that raised considerations about Justice Clarence Thomas’s potential failure to fulfill monetary disclosure necessities after he acquired journeys and different invaluable objects from Republican billionaire donor Harlan Crow. … This Article seeks to construct on the prior one, notably with a watch in direction of critiquing the political, judicial, and authorized ramifications of the Courtroom’s sadly ersatz Code.
Learn the complete article here.
Suggestion #4: “Why Courts Ought to Not Self-discipline Trump’s Legal professionals” by Rebecca Roiphe (New York Legislation College). From the summary:
After the primary Trump administration, there have been a number of coordinated efforts to self-discipline attorneys in extremely charged political instances. For instance, a California bar courtroom advisable that John Eastman be disbarred. Eastman helped craft the authorized argument that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the suitable to delay or decline to certify the election outcomes, and the disciplinary case concluded that he lied publicly, in his memos to his shopper and Pence, and to courts. This Article attracts on Eastman’s case to argue that disciplinary fees in politically charged instances are sometimes unconstitutional and even when they aren’t, they’re unwise and counterproductive as a result of they chill helpful advocacy and threaten democratic values.
Learn the complete article here.
Suggestion #5: “Are There Causes and Purchasers Legal professionals Ought to Not Signify?” by Richard Abel (UCLA). From the summary:
Legal professionals have lengthy asserted that they aren’t morally answerable for the purchasers and causes they signify. Such irresponsibility is based on a political philosophy of liberal pluralism, which maintains that as a result of all human preferences are authentic, the one strategy to resolve variations is thru agreed processes – of which the authorized system is preeminent. We’ve reached a conjuncture, nonetheless, the place this posture is not acceptable. Local weather change, brought on by human company, threatens all life on earth. Autocrats in lots of nations search to destroy democracy. And rising inequalities of wealth and revenue render consultant democracy an empty charade. As a result of attorneys are centrally implicated in every of those existential threats, they have to confront their very own ethical accountability.
Learn the complete article here. And skim responses from Robert Barrington, Man Beringer, Georgia Garrod, Ole Hammerslev, Brad Wendel, and Iris van Domselaar here.
Authorized Ethics Trivia
From the Texas Middle for Authorized Ethics, right here’s the query of the month: “Are legislation agency web sites thought of ‘commercials’?” Test yourself at this website the place you’ll be able to learn a brief hypothetical, choose a solution, and see your outcomes. Up to now, out of 85 responses, 23% have gotten it proper. Will you?
Get Employed
Did you miss the 150+ job postings from earlier weeks? Discover all of them here.
- Assistant Ethics Counsel, North Carolina State Bar — Raleigh, NC/Hybrid. From the posting: “The North Carolina State Bar is hiring a licensed North Carolina legal professional to function assistant ethics counsel. This can be a distinctive alternative to work on the intersection of authorized ethics, public service, and authorized schooling. On this position, you’ll present steering to attorneys on ethics points, assist the Ethics Committee, and assist form the moral panorama of the authorized career in North Carolina by contributing to the event of formal ethics opinions and amendments to the Guidelines of Skilled Conduct. You’ll additionally ship CLE displays, conduct authorized analysis, and assist the State Bar’s efforts in defending the general public by the regulation of the authorized career.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Assistant Ethics Counsel, Virginia State Bar — Richmond, VA. From the posting: “The Virginia State Bar has an instantaneous opening for an skilled legal professional to work as an Assistant Ethics Counsel. The VSB Ethics division attorneys advise bar members, judges, and out-of-state attorneys by the ethics hotline on a wide range of skilled regulation points, together with authorized ethics, lawyer promoting, and unauthorized observe of legislation. In addition they develop and current CLEs, interpret statutes and guidelines referring to authorized ethics, draft authorized ethics opinions and rule amendments, and supply counsel and assist to assigned committees, activity forces and work teams.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Affiliate Director and Counsel, International Compliance Investigations, Pratt & Whitney — East Hartford, CT/Hybrid. Duties embrace: “Investigating allegations of potential violations of ethics and compliance legal guidelines/insurance policies and/or sure international safety issues, together with coordination of issues with international ethics & compliance capabilities; performing as compliance counsel, supporting non-attorney investigators in ethics and compliance investigations, together with aiding in responding to governmental subpoenas and managing doc assortment, custodian and file identification and responsiveness evaluations.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Conflicts Legal professional, Wilson Elser LLP — Washington, DC/Distant. From the posting: “We’re searching for a detail-oriented and analytical Conflicts Legal professional to hitch our Basic Counsel’s workplace. This particular person might be answerable for figuring out, analyzing, and resolving potential authorized and enterprise conflicts of curiosity associated to new enterprise consumption, lateral legal professional hiring, and agency operations. The best candidate will convey a powerful understanding of authorized ethics {and professional} accountability guidelines, together with wonderful judgment and communication abilities.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Ethics Legal professional/Sr. Affiliate/Affiliate, Cha Legislation Ethics — Distant (with CA Bar License). From the posting: “We’re searching for a Senior Ethics Legal professional to hitch our absolutely distant workforce. This position entails representing attorneys and legislation college students in varied authorized ethics issues, together with State Bar investigations, authorized malpractice defence, reinstatements, and admissions. The best candidate could have a powerful background in authorized ethics, wonderful communication abilities, and the flexibility to work independently in a distant setting.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Senior Conflicts Counsel Supervisor, Dinsmore LLP — Cincinnati, OH. From the posting: “Dinsmore is searching for a full-time Senior Conflicts Counsel Supervisor to steer Dinsmore’s conflicts legal professional group in figuring out and resolving moral and enterprise conflicts for the agency’s new purchasers and issues in addition to aiding in battle clearance and shopper and matter consumption for lateral attorneys. The Senior Conflicts Counsel Supervisor additionally researches and advises the agency’s attorneys on danger administration points and the foundations {of professional} conduct within the states wherein Dinsmore operates. The individual on this position may even assist oversee the administration of the agency’s conflicts database and help in different key conflicts and moral points for the agency.” Be taught extra and apply here.
- Senior In-Home Lawyer – Conflicts A &O Shearman — New York Metropolis/Hybrid. From the posting: “The position of the Senior In Home Lawyer – Conflicts is to be a trusted adviser to the enterprise, offering prime quality, proactive business-focused assist and options to colleagues on a wide range of industrial and sophisticated regulatory points, targeted primarily on conflicts of curiosity and different enterprise acceptance issues. It requires a person with the flexibility to develop robust working relationships to be a “go to” and accessible individual for queries and considerations from all over the world. These queries come from stakeholders of all ranges from enterprise groups and price earners, together with observe group heads and senior administration. The Senior In Home Lawyer – Conflicts is given a excessive degree of autonomy and anticipated to take accountability for figuring out options and driving them ahead. As well as, the Senior In Home Lawyer – Conflicts will take part in strategic tasks and be a part of the horizon-scanning workforce, inputting into the strategic course of the agency’s regulation.” Be taught extra and apply here.
Upcoming Ethics Occasions & Different Bulletins
Did you miss an announcement from earlier weeks? Discover all of them here.
2025
- Assist TED Form the Way forward for Authorized Training. From TED: “Identified for spreading concepts that spark change, TED is now making use of its international platform, community of changemakers, and academic innovation to the authorized subject—creating a brand new studying device that brings collectively TED Talks, real-world insights from GCs and practitioners, and research-based frameworks to assist authorized schooling evolve. Our focus is on 5 important impression areas: important considering, AI adaptability, cross-cultural and generational fluency, collaborative management, and inventive problem-solving. This isn’t about changing conventional authorized instruction—it’s about complementing it with human-centered, story-driven instruments that replicate the world attorneys are coming into. We’re asking GCs, attorneys, and authorized practitioners all over the world to share their views about the way in which our trade ought to be educated by a brief survey (10–quarter-hour).” Full the survey here.
- July 21. Name for Papers Deadline: The Function of AI in Authorized Training – Making ready the Subsequent Era of Legal professionals at Westminster Legislation College, London. This September 11 occasion will convey collectively lecturers, authorized professionals, college students, and trade stakeholders to look at how AI is reshaping legislation levels, notably in areas equivalent to curriculum design, evaluation, instructing strategies, and graduate employability. Keynote Audio system embrace Lisa Webley (College of Birmingham), Dan Hunter (King’s School London), and Luke Mason (College of Westminster). Submit here (funding assist for early profession lecturers out there).
- August 1. Call for Papers Deadline: Association of American Law Schools New Voices Call for Papers Deadline. The AALS Section on Professional Responsibility invites submissions for its New Voices panel at the Annual Meeting, January 2026 in New Orleans, LA. Submissions are invited from junior faculty (those who are pre-tenure or otherwise with five or fewer years of experience), along with others who are new to writing in the field of Professional Responsibility. Those submitting work must be full-time faculty members (including full-time VAPs or fellows) at AALS member law schools. Work that has already been published (or will be published prior to the conference) is ineligible for consideration. Interested faculty should submit their work for consideration to Sarah Cravens [email protected] no later than 5:00pm Central Time on Friday, August 1, 2025, with “PR New Voices Submission – 2026 Annual Assembly” within the topic line of the e-mail.
- August 7-9. Affiliation of Skilled Duty Legal professionals Annual Assembly in Toronto. Be taught extra here.
- August 12, 2-3PM Japanese. Measuring What Issues: Evaluating the Influence of InnovationsA Webinar Sequence on Judicial Innovation and Management. Constructing on the momentum of the Advancing Innovation Nationwide Summit, IAALS and the Berkeley Judicial Institute are thrilled to current this dynamic webinar sequence designed to equip judges with the sensible instruments and insights wanted to drive significant innovation within the courts. The sequence will transcend concept and dive deep into methods that can empower judges to navigate change, construct belief, and foster a extra accessible justice system for all. This sequence is open to all judges searching for to turn out to be catalysts for optimistic change within the authorized system. Be taught extra and register here.
- August 13, 8AM-6PM, College of Houston Legislation Middle. AALS Southwest and Huge 12 Legislation School Pre-Recruitment Workshop: “So, You Need to Be a Legislation Professor.” Panel discussions and interview alternatives for future legislation professors. Taking part legislation colleges embrace: Arizona State College, Sandra Day O’Connor School of Legislation, Baylor Legislation College, SMU Dedman College of Legislation, St. Mary’s College College of Legislation, Texas A&M College College of Legislation, Tulane Legislation College, College of Arkansas College of Legislation, College of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen College of Legislation, College of Cincinnati School of Legislation, College of Kansas College of Legislation, College of Mississippi College of Legislation, College of Oklahoma School of Legislation, College of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Legislation. Be taught extra and register here.
- October 9-10. Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, Center for Litigation and Ethics, UC Law SF. Learn more here.
2026
- January 6-9. Affiliation of American Legislation Colleges Annual Assembly, Part on Skilled Duty Occasions. Be taught extra here.
- December 2-4. Worldwide Authorized Ethics Convention on the College of Houston. Be taught extra here.
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Renee Knake Jefferson holds the endowed Doherty Chair in Authorized Ethics and is a Professor of Legislation on the College of Houston. Take a look at extra of her writing on the Legal Ethics Roundup. Discover her on X (previously Twitter) at @reneeknake or Bluesky at legalethics.bsky.social.
