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Want to land a cushy spot as a federal judge? It’s simple, at least according to D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle. Sentelle recently doled out some simple advice at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention. (That’s the annual gathering where libertarian and conservative lawyers get together to discuss the Federalist papers and the free market while wringing their hands over Donald Trump.) Just get to know a senator or at least someone who knows a senator....

With graduation parties happening around the country, many people might be wondering what some practical gifts are for law grads. Considering that law graduations are about as anticlimactic as they come thanks to the bar exam looming over nearly every law grad, there are still some excellent and practical graduation gifts that could mean quite a lot to the law grad in your life. Cash is actually a rather simple, and not out of line, gift for any graduate....

Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Comm. v. US, 10-1027, involved a complaint filed by a committee of domestic producers and processors of warmwater shrimp challenging the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final results of its antidumping duties on certain frozen warmwater shrimp from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In reversing the Court of International Trade’s dismissal of the complaint, the court remanded the case in concluding that the trial court erred by dismissing the case without reaching the merits of the committee’s claims, as substantial evidence supports Commerce’s decisions to calculate the surrogate shrimp value based on the NACA Survey data and to exclude Bionic’s financial statements in calculating the surrogate expenses....

What goes around comes right back around, in some cases. A woman who was the victim of identity theft was handed her own stolen ID when she carded a customer at an Applebee’s in Colorado, where she works as a waitress. Brianna Priddy’s wallet was stolen the day before Valentine’s Day, during a night out on the town. Then someone began writing bad checks using her identity, Denver’s KUSA-TV reports....

In-house counsel really are a different breed of animal in the species called ’lawyer.' For most, the archetypical attorney is the most aggressive character in the courtroom and walks with a confidence that barely masks conceit. In-house lawyers, on the other hand, too often have their hats handed to them in the boardroom. This post is about how in-house counsel can be more assertive, without appearing overly aggressive like their counterparts in the outside world....

So a few months ago we included a few resume gaffes that could have led to a smile, a chuckle, or a full on LOL. Well, it’s coming up on the end of the week, and we couldn’t help but share another round. All entries are from the witty team at Resumania.com. We especially appreciate their quippy one-liners. Enjoy & happy job-hunting, job-searching, and job-hiring! Related Resources: The Funniest Resume Gaffes Not To Make (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates)In Case You Don’t Have a Law Halloween Costume Yet… (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates)F-Bombs and Rap Vernacular: Spicing Up Legalese (FindLaw’s Greedy Associates) You Don’t Have To Solve This on Your Own – Get a Lawyer’s Help Civil Rights Block on Trump’s Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court...

New Jersey man Alan Berger is a beer pong winner. He beat out numerous competitors at a bar called Wicked Willy’s in June 2009. Unfortunately, his victory came at a price. And now he’s suing the bar where the festivities took place. Berger took a bus home after his beer pong win. But he was so drunk that he ended up getting hit by a car on Highway 9. Berger suffered numerous injuries....

For decades, fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil fought to halt climate change regulations, denying the existence of anthropogenic global warming and funding outside groups dedicated to stymieing environmental laws. Yet, while action on climate change stalled and oil and gas profits skyrocketed, recent reports have revealed that those companies were well aware of the dangers their products posed to the environment. Now, a new California bill seeks to hold past climate change deniers accountable for their actions, by extending the statute of limitations under California’s Unfair Competition Law....

California courts paid almost $650,000 to settle sexual harassment and gender discrimination claims against judicial officers in the past five years, according to a recent disclosure. The state Judicial Council released the settlement records, which were redacted to omit names and other details. The records show three cases were based on sexual harassment – including one settlement for $150,000. The revelations came after the state judiciary adopted a new rule that requires courts to disclose financial settlements involving claims against judicial officers upon request....

With a few signatures from Governor Jerry Brown, California may have just become the most immigrant-friendly state in the country. On Saturday, Gov. Brown signed a package of bills reducing the state’s cooperation with federal deportation programs, giving undocumented immigrants the right to obtain driver’s licenses, and most important for our purposes, allowing undocumented immigrants to practice law, so long as the other requirements of bar admission are met. While the legislation should have far-reaching effects across the state, it will be especially good news for one 36-year-old man, who has been waiting for a green card since the age of 17, and who passed the bar in 2009, yet is still waiting to practice law....

Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer became the latest NFL player to face criminal charges after he was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault. The arrest stems from a pair of incidents in July when Dwyer allegedly assaulted a woman and an 18-month-old child at his Phoenix home, reports ESPN. The arrest also comes less than a week after another NFL running back, Adrian Peterson, was indicted for child abuse after allegedly injuring his 4-year-old son and amid the continuing controversy surrounding the recently released video footage of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his wife in an elevator earlier this year....

A grieving mom is furious after finding out about her son’s death via a cop’s Facebook message – which she didn’t notice for three weeks. Anna Lamb-Creasey’s 30-year-old son, Rickie Lamb, was hit by a car and died on January 24. But Lamb-Creasey had no idea what had happened to her son; she spent weeks looking for him, even posting on his Facebook page to ask where he was. Then on Valentine’s Day, the Atlanta-area mom noticed a Facebook message from someone she didn’t know....

The CNN-produced documentary “Blackfish,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, is a whale of a tale landing SeaWorld in a sea of legal woes. The film traces a 39-year history of killer whales in captivity leading up to the graphic 2010 killing of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau by the 12,000-pound orca, Tilikum, a whale previously associated with the deaths of two other people. A cautionary tale, “Blackfish” highlights the captivity of orcas, the chilling danger it poses to whale trainers, and the wave of legal liability in which SeaWorld is now drowning....

The Fisheries Service does not have blanket discretion in determining how to carry out its federally-mandated duties. That’s the word out of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in Oceana v. Locke. The case involved a Fisheries Act amendment requiring the Fisheries Service to establish a “standardized reporting methodology” to assess the amount and type of bycatch, (fish which are harvested in a fishery, but which are not sold or kept for personal use), in an effort to reduce bycatch in each of the Service’s eight regions....

In People v. Douangpanya, No. C061501, the Third District faced a challenge to a conviction of defendant for assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to three years in state prison. In affirming the conviction, the court held that the trial court did not err by informing the jury that defendant’s prior crimes involved moral turpitude and by defining moral turpitude as “a readiness to do evil.” Futhermore, there was no ineffective assistance of counsel....

A recently filed habeas appeal raises a rather curious question that practitioners will want to know the answer to (despite the fact that the answer probably won’t actually matter to the vast majority of us). Does having an affair with a client’s spouse equal ineffective assistance of counsel? The case involves a former hedge fund manager/current inmate claiming that his attorney’s affair with his wife rendered his attorney’s counsel ineffective. The affair began during the case, and surprisingly, the attorney and wife ended up getting married....

Ingrid Paulicivic feels burned. But not as burned as her gynecologist, Dr. Red Alinsod, is going to feel when he has his attorney look at the contents of the lawsuit filed by Paulicivic and her husband. It seems Dr. Red was goofing around a bit during an operation to remove Paulicivic’s uterus. This is something it is doubtful they recommend in med school, and for good reason. Dr. Alison allegedly decided to engrave the removed organ with the name “Ingrid” so it ‘wouldn’t get mixed up with the others....

The gender discrimination trial that captured the attention of Silicon Valley, if not the whole nation, came to a close this Friday after weeks of testimony. Ellen Pao’s lawsuit against a storied venture capital firm highlighted what many saw as the subtle forms of discrimination and exclusion that keep women out of some of the most powerful positions in both tech companies and VC firms. The jury, however, sided with Kleiner....

For Google, getting sued for diverse hiring practices was probably one of the last things the internet giant expected. After all, it’s one of those progressive tech companies in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately for Google, the company’s hiring practices may be put to the test via litigation. The company may even have to go so far as to prove that it does not discriminate against white and Asian males when promoting the hiring of a diverse workforce....

The Bluebook may be one of the world’s most hated books. It’s frustratingly complicated, not particularly well organized, and poorly bound. Oh, and a fresh version costs about $40, most of which goes to Harvard, the wealthiest nonprofit in the world after the Catholic Church. But now it’s got some competition. Students from NYU Law, led by professor Chris Sprigman, have put together their own streamlined, digital, open-source version, dubbed Baby Blue, and they’re giving it away for free, despite threats from Harvard’s lawyers....