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14 Applicants, Five Licenses, and One Very Patient Judge: Where the Alabama Medical Cannabis Hearing Stands Now
If you’ve ever watched a bracket-style competition — March Madness, a baking show, take your pick — you know the format: a lot of contestants, a panel that has seen it all, and weeks that feel a lot longer to the people waiting on a decision than to...
Agentic AI And The QWERTY Problem
For the past year, the technology hype cycle belongs to “agentic” AI. Is it different than the AI chatbots that dominated the previous few years? It depends on how you look at it. The agentic pitch is that users can outsource more of mental drudgery to the...
The Insourcing Revolution Is Here. And It’s Bigger Than Anyone Expected.
For years, legal departments drew a circle around what they did and what they outsourced to law firms. What remained inside the circle? A relatively small fraction of the in-house team’s total workload. Now the in-house circle is expanding, catalyzed by AI driving an...
Luigi’s Double Jeopardy Gamble And The DOJ’s Complicity
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say their client can’t be tried for murder now that he’s pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges. At issue is a voluntary admission that his stalking led to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which is not an...
Former Acting U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building
We have some truly tragic news to report out of California, where a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. attorney has passed away. Andrew Haden, 48, was found dead last week inside a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in...
The Burton Book Review: An interview with Professor Ray Madoff
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Appeals court reduces $50M judgment against former Infowars host Alex Jones
{mag_summary} A Texas appeals court on Friday reduced a $50 million judgment that former Infowars host Alex Jones was ordered to pay the families of…
Law school applications reach record high—again
{mag_summary}Law school applications are again reaching record high numbers, with applications for fall 2026 up 10.8% over last year and 35.5% over two years ago,…
Claims process streamlined for Veterans affected by 1973 NPRC records fire
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making the claims process easier for Veterans whose records were damaged or destroyed in the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). VA Deputy Secretary Paul R. Lawrence, Ph.D., and VA’s Principal Deputy...