State supreme courts have seen minimal improvements in the racial and gender diversity of their jurists, as new justices have been disproportionately white and male, with even less progress made in seating justices with varied professional experiences, according to a recent report.
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State High Courts See Little Progress In Improving Diversity

By Jack Karp

State supreme courts have seen minimal improvements in the racial and gender diversity of their jurists, as new justices have been disproportionately white and male, with even less progress made in seating justices with varied professional experiences, according to a recent report.

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Ga. Prosecutor Drops Election Case Against Trump, Allies

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others accused of attempting to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

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DOJ Says Ex-Employees Can't Challenge Firings In Fed. Court

By Rose Krebs

The government says a D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate a lawsuit filed by a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and two other ex-Department of Justice employees, alleging they were unlawfully fired.

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Democracy Forward Adds High-Profile Former DOJ Atty

By Jack Rodgers

A former top attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Immigration Litigation, who was fired in April after telling a court the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García was made in error, has joined Democracy Forward as a senior counsel, the group announced Tuesday.

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Roundup

Up Next At High Court: ISP Liability & State Subpoena Suits

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for the first week of its December oral argument session, during which the justices will consider whether internet service providers can be held liable for contributing to their customers' infringing activity online and whether the subjects of state subpoenas are required to first challenge them in state court. 

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11th Circ. Denies Trump Bid To Revive Clinton, DNC RICO Suit

By David Minsky

The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of President Donald Trump's amended lawsuit alleging a racketeering conspiracy between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to derail his 2016 campaign with false accusations of Russian collusion, saying the complaint didn't state any claims. 

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6th Circ. Largely Shoots Down Ohio Derailment Atty Fee Fight

By Rae Ann Varona

The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday largely refused to revive Morgan & Morgan's bid to halt the allocation of attorney fees from a $600 million class settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents affected by the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster, but remanded it for a look into the firm's individual allocation amount.

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Gov.-Elect Sherrill Taps Dozens Of Attys For Transition Teams

By Jake Maher

New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill's recently announced transition teams feature a number of legal professionals from within New Jersey and outside the state working in a variety of roles as she prepares for her term to begin. 

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Trial Over Judge's Alleged ICE Interference Gets Ground Rules

By Lauren Berg

A Wisconsin federal judge on Tuesday set some ground rules for an anticipated December trial over criminal charges alleging a state judge attempted to hinder a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest this spring, including the types of arguments and evidence that can be presented to the jury.

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Cyber Co. Says Mich. Atty's Recusal Bid Based On Speculation

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Michigan attorney's attempt to have a judge recuse from a payment dispute launched by a cybersecurity firm "is a waste of the court's time," the company has said, because her bid is based on speculation over the judge's work in a federal prosecutor's office.

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Ohio Panel Says Locked Court Doors Didn't Violate Trial Right

By George Woolston

An Ohio appeals court said on Wednesday that a decision to continue a trial after courthouse doors were locked at the close of business did not violate a man's rights, denying his bid for a new trial.

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Ex-Bank GC Faces Garnishments After $7M Restitution Order

By Aaron Keller

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has told the Connecticut federal court it blocked a former Webster Bank general counsel from drawing money from five accounts totaling close to $178,000 in response to recent garnishment actions, presumably filed by prosecutors to satisfy part of a $7.4 million fraud restitution order.

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NJ AG, Comptroller Blast Bill To Strip Agency's Probe Powers

By George Woolston

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin is set to go before lawmakers on Dec. 1 to speak out against a proposed bill aimed removing investigatory powers from the Office of the State Comptroller after calling the proposal "outrageous" on social media.

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Fla. Supreme Court Calls For 25 New State Judgeships

By Madison Arnold

The Supreme Court of Florida on Wednesday asked the state's Legislature for 13 additional circuit court judgeships and 12 more county court bench seats in fiscal year 2026-27.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Law And Disorder: How To Tackle A Key Burnout Syndrome

Impostor syndrome prevails as a main root cause of attorney burnout, but sufferers can equip themselves with a series of practice tips that build confidence through evidence, not emotion, to address the mindset behind this damaging condition, says Jonathan Cohen at PNY.

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Orrick Herrington

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Schiller Pittenger

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Wilentz Goldman

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

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Alliance Defending Freedom

Allianz SE

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey

Boston University

Brennan Center for Justice

Cox Communications Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Democratic National Committee

Duke University

Education Law Center Inc.

Hudson Valley Holding Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

McAfee Inc.

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

New Jersey Transit Corp.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

PNY Technologies

Princeton University

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Stanford University

Sterling Financial Corp.

UBS Group AG

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware River Port Authority

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Florida Supreme Court

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance

Superior Court of Fulton County

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

U.S. Navy

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin