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Thinking about money (or lack of it) can make people indecisive.

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The Law Schools That Provide The ‘Best Value’ For Students (2025)

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When Harvey Talks Competition, Legal Tech Better Listen

Harvey's creators are less concerned about legal tech vendors and more about competition from OpenAI itself.

Defense Trade Press Statement On Media Restrictions At The Pentagon

Breaking Defense joins with other trade publications in rejecting the Pentagon’s press restrictions.

Morning Docket: 10.16.25

* Law school applications up 33 percent. Or “nearly half” as some lawyers would say. [Reuters]

* Supreme Court’s voting rights argument reveals justices more than willing to roll back the law to 1950s. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Michigan State Title IX investigators may have collaborated with university lawyers. [State News]

* The lawyer-to-blacksmith pipeline is alive and well. [CBS News]

* Trump DOJ wastes tons of taxpayer money on frivolous cases, but the costs to the accused matter almost as much winning. [NPR]

* Billboard lawyer drops a partner “adds new one with familiar sounding name.” [Houston Chronicle]

* Administration plans to close CFPB in 2-3 months. This comes on the heels of the administration announcing a settlement to drop case over company fleecing our troops. [Law360]

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Even solar based Ponzi schemes aren’t bright idea.

Has AI Managed To Make Lawyers Even Dumber?

Lawyers don't seem to be learning their lesson.

You Can’t Put The First Amendment To Bed

Texas law is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.