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The good news: a Chicago law firm is actually hiring as evidenced by its Craigslist ad. The bad news: The job requires extremely high credentials like a top 10% grad from a top tier law school. The ugly news: The job only pays between $25,000 and $35,000. The Chicago law firm craigslist ad is just the latest sign on the sad state of the job market for young attorneys. With more highly educated (and unemployed) law students graduating every year, there is now a glut of competition for every law job that comes along....

Appeal of medical dispensaries’ appeal of an order to comply with a subpoena Dana Point Safe Harbor Collective v. Superior Court, S180365, concerned a challenge to the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of medical dispensaries’ appeal of a trial court’s order requiring them to comply with a subpoena issued by a city, requesting documents related to all aspects of the dispensaries’ business activities, including their business licenses, payroll arrangements, and purchasing activities, and information about their members....

Former Oklahoma quarterback Steve Davis died in a plane crash over the weekend. Davis was travelling in a private jet that took off from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and crashed near South Bend, Indiana, reports Tulsa’s KOKI-TV. Davis, 60, was a two-time champion under Coach Barry Switzer for the dominant Oklahoma football teams that reigned during the 1970s. Two others aboard the plane also were killed, while two passengers reportedly survived the crash....

Imagine you payed thousands of dollars for a heart monitor that could detect when you were about to have a heart attack. Except, instead of doing that, it peed on your expensive sofa and chewed through your new shoes. That’s similar to what a lawsuit claims some consumers experienced when they purchased what they thought were “diabetic alert dogs.” Now, the company that sold those dogs is being sued by the state’s attorney general....

What are you going to do about it? Suspend my driver’s license? Go ahead! Paul Wheeler, an Indiana man, had his driver’s license suspended 68 times in 14 years. The suspensions didn’t seem to faze him though. Habitual Traffic Violators Wheeler is going to jail because Indiana law provides for jail time as a punishment for driving on a suspended license. While having over 60 suspensions makes him a habitual traffic violator, he is not going to see jail time for that....

The rise of e-sports, televised video game competitions, has been meteoric. Matches are pulling in 5-figure crowds and players are pulling in six-figure winnings. And when sports start making big money on the field, gamblers will want to make big money off it. An ex-HP and Microsoft executive is betting big on the future of e-sports gambling. Rahul Sood founded the e-sports betting site Unikrn in anticipation that gambling on e-sports will be legal within two years....

Despite protests from prosecutors, a judge has granted Jerry Sandusky permission to communicate with 11 of his 14 grandchildren. The grant comes as part of a request to modify his bail conditions. The former Penn State coach is currently on house arrest and has been ordered to have no contact with persons under the age of 18. Up until now, Sandusky’s grandchildren were part of that ban, as they are between 2 and 14 years of age....

Fairy tales and legal briefs don’t often share the same bookshelf, yet law and magic share many of the same guiding principles. As Emily Crow Barker put it in her recent New York Times article, “if you want to dabble in magic safely and successfully, it helps to have the advice of a good attorney.” And more often than not, a fairy tale protagonist faces dire consequences that could have been avoided with sound legal advice....

According to the results of a survey, money was not the primary reason that law students decided to attend law school – at least not for grads between the 1970s and the 2000s. This sounds like surprising and welcome news, but don’t celebrate too soon … Survey Background The survey was conducted by Northeastern University School of Law and generated responses by over 800 of its graduates over the course of several decades....

Quinnipiac University School of Law is a small, middle-tier school, unremarkable on the national landscape except perhaps for its variety of clinical programs – and its outreach against sex trafficking. According to the Hartford Courant, Quinnipiac law students have trained nearly 1,000 hospitality industry workers how to recognize and report signs of sex trafficking. The program has given students a front-seat at the table fighting the crime in Connecticut. “There’s a lot that’s been done but there’s still a lot more that needs to be done,” U....

About the time General Motors was laying off workers in Flint, Michigan, the price of bottled water in America was surpassing the price of gasoline. For Flint, the situation was much worse than an economic problem. To reduce a water fund shortfall, the city turned to a new water source. That water turned out to be polluted with dangerous levels of lead, and criminal and civil litigation followed. Now the Flint water crisis has reached an international forum....

In the biggest jump up in seven years, nearly 8 percent more students took the Law School Admission Test last year than the previous year. The Law School Admission Council reported that LSAT numbers increased 7.6 percent over last December, which represents the largest year-over-year growth in testing since December 2009. It was the third year in a row with an increase, after a 53.2 percent drop over the previous four years....

Mike McQueary testifies at the Jerry Sandusky trial – and it was rather damning. For more than an hour, McQueary described what he saw at the Penn State locker room showers back in 2001 when a boy was allegedly sexually assaulted by Sandusky. McQueary then withstood an 85-minute cross examination by defense lawyers. Mike McQueary testifies that he went to the gym one night and saw a naked Sandusky pushing a 10-12 year-old-boy against a shower wall and then engaging in a sex act with the child, reports the Los Angeles Times....

The National Football League is currently investigating New England Patriots rookie star Brandon Spikes and a potential contract violation for his role in a sexually explicit video. The video in question was found on the online video chatting site Chatroulette and shows Spikes and a female companion engaging in acts of oral sex, according to CBS News. NFL spokesperson Greg Aiello is quoted, “We are looking into it. The league’s personal policy states that those associated with the league must avoid conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the National Football League....

Sales, no matter what you’re selling, are a tough racket. You need a great product, great pitch, and a great sales team. And it helps if you have a “closer” on that team – someone who can come in late and seal the deal. It also helps if that closer is a former stripper and she’s giving lap dances in clubs to your doctor clients to get them to prescribe more of your opioids....

In a prosecution for possession of a concealed firearm, trial court’s imposition of several conditions on defendant’s probation, specifically a condition requiring non-use of marijuana and the surrender of his medical marijuana card, is affirmed where: 1) the combination of provisions of Health and Safety Code section 11357 and 11362.795 and cited authorities make it clear that there was nothing in the slightest unlawful or unconstitutional about the probation conditions imposed on, and explicitly agreed to, by defendant; 2) court did not abuse its discretion when it gave the defendant the choice to accept among several conditions, including drug testing and jail time; and 3) there were no improper or unlawful choice being forced on defendant....

The long awaited gay marriage case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, ended in a procedurally dramatic way on Wednesday, with the Supreme Court vacating and remanding the Ninth Circuit’s decision based on a lack of standing. In a 5-4 decision, the Perry court determined that private parties do not have standing to defend the constitutionality of a state law “when state officials have chosen not to,” reports the Huffington Post. Though this case was not decided on the merits, it does have long-standing (no pun intended) consequences for gay marriage in California....

“By their fruits ye shall know them,” Jesus said almost one Christmas and 2,000 years ago. He was talking about how to know the difference between true prophets and false ones. True ones produce good things; false ones, not so much. Although Jesus wasn’t a big fan of lawyers, his analogy could be a how-to on putting together a good legal department. Otherwise, as Forrest Gump said with a holiday box of chocolates, “you never know what you’re gonna get....

Lawyers aren’t overpaid at all. Just ask Delaware Judge Leo Strine. He recently approved $285 million in attorney’s fees in a shareholder derivative suit to two plaintiffs’ firms. Broken down, the $285 million of attorney’s fees essentially means the firms are getting around $35,000 per billable hour. The firms purportedly spent around 8,000 hours on the case, according to Thomson Reuters News & Insight. It’s good news for attorneys. I mean, it’s flattering to think that every hour of your time is worth $35,000....

In In re Christopher C., No. B216270, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District faced a father’s challenge to a court’s order placing six of seven children in the care of DCFS and an order of reunification services for the parents that included psychotherapy, counseling, and monitored visitation with the children. As stated in the decision: “Without objection, the court amended the petition by interlineation to add the following allegation pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c)....