Here's a link to Jason Iuliano's empirical study, cited in the article: www.ablj.org/bridging-the...
“Now I have the financial freedom to pursue my dreams of homeownership,” Ms. Howdyshell said. ‘It was a scary process but worth the gamble.’
“She is just one among the small fraction of borrowers who file adversary proceedings.”
More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/b...
Important information here. Great work by Jason Iuliano.
I think this is exactly right … I’m just old enough to have had a beloved great aunt with numbers tattooed on her arm. Her explanation of how she got them forever changed my little kid brain
Thank you (et al) for writing the book. You guys did the hard work!!
Thank you, Ed Boltz, for a very generous reading of my essay reviewing "Debt's Grip" by @proffoohey.bsky.social, @boblawless.bsky.social, and Deb Thorne. ncbankruptcyexpert.com/2025/12/02/l...
Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.
Law Review: @dalie.bsky.social , Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). dlvr.it/TMbV4n
Not defending tariffs (at all), but the story is a bit more complicated: “The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773 to help the company. This gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places.”
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There has never been a more important time for pro-people, pro-democracy lawyers and law students to get organized.
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Meritocracy is a myth; but basic competence would be refreshing.
"President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b....
It has nothing to do with antisemitism.
That’s a cover—for whatever the heck they want to do.
And using Jews as a partisan ploy? THAT’S antisemitic.
Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
“Anyone who knows Susman Godfrey knows we believe in the rule of law, and we take seriously our duty to uphold it,” the firm said on Wednesday. “There is no question that we will fight this unconstitutional order.””
“On Wednesday, Mr. Trump hit another firm, Susman Godfrey, with an executive order. The firm, which plans to fight Mr. Trump’s order, represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that lawyers allied with Mr. Trump falsely attacked.”
Now we get to see what happens when they sue a litigation boutique (Susman, Godfrey).
Whelp, this "event study" appears to be bearing out your hypothesis: www.law.com/newyorklawjo...
This song is stuck in my head today: Arlo Guthrie singing a song by his dad youtu.be/qu-duTWccyI?...
One key lesson of the PW and Skadden debacles may be that a law firm should not let their transactional lawyers determine their litigation tactics…
WilmerHale was polite, professional, and direct.
BigLaw could learn. Now, WilmerHale needs to actually fight this thing out. These orders are blatantly, insanely unconstitutional.
Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Statement of U.S. law deans, 26 March 2025
Re-upping this!! It's going to be great. If you want to see the full agenda, and/or RSVP, here's the link: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...
To this end, the firm seeks to attract lawyers reflecting a wide variety of religious, political, ethnic, cultural, gender, sexual orientation and social backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home."
Its partners are committed to providing excellence in the rendition of legal services at the pinnacle of the profession while remaining actively engaged in matters of social consequence.
The firm’s governance is dedicated to the principle of one partner/one vote, no matter seniority or client appeal, and to universal service in all aspects of firm administration, with attendant transparency in firm management and collegiality in firm culture.
through such practice to earn a living and to derive the stimulation and pleasure of worthwhile adventure; and in all things to govern ourselves as members of a free democratic society with responsibilities both to our profession and our country.”
"The goal, Simon Rifkind wrote in 1963 in the Statement of Firm Principles, is “to achieve the highest order of excellence in the practice of the art, the science and the profession of the law; backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home."
