Sep 18, 2021
David Lat
Gender: Male
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DOB: 19 June 1975
Ethnicity: Filipino
Nationality: American
Occupation: Lawyer, writer, blogger
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David Lat
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 19 June 1975
Ethnicity: Filipino
Nationality: American
Occupation: Lawyer, writer, blogger
Why Justice Kennedy May Not Leave The Court Right Now
Why Justice Kennedy May Not Leave The Court Right Now
The Supreme Court is not an institution with regular turnover. Since the Justices have life tenure, many stay on well into old age and often for decades. The Justices are insulated in their positions for life and there is little incentive to move to other jobs. In fact, the last Justice to leave the Court for a position outside the federal judiciary was Justice Owen Roberts in 1945 and the…
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A Benchslap By Judge Gorsuch. And It's A Really Good One, Too.
A Benchslap By Judge Gorsuch. And It’s A Really Good One, Too.
Benchslap Of The Day: No More Mr. Nice Guy, by David Lat, Above The Law Blog
http://abovethelaw.com/2015/03/benchslap-of-the-day-no-more-mr-nice-guy/
It’s Monday, which makes it a good day for a good old-fashioned benchslap!
Our Judge for today’s benchslap is none other than newly appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court, back when he was at the United States District…
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Supreme Court Review of The Short-Listers' Decisions
Supreme Court Review of The Short-Listers’ Decisions
With one day until his inauguration, President Elect Trump has yet to nominate a candidate for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. While he initially released a list of twenty-one possible candidates for the vacancy, CBS’ Jan Crawford reports that the list of candidates may be furthered narrowed to five – including 11th Circuit Judge William Pryor, 7th Circuit Judge Diane Sykes, 3rd Circuit…
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Comparing Candidates for the Next United States Solicitor General
Comparing Candidates for the Next United States Solicitor General #EmpiricalSCOTUS
Eleven possibilities for the next Solicitor General of the United States. There are in fact many more possible candidates although the eleven names produced in two articles – one by Tony Mauro of the National Law Journal and another by David Lat, managing editor of Above the Lawprovide an ample source of talented lawyers who may next hold the post of the federal government’s top attorney. Lat…
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Supreme Ambitions details the rise of Audrey Coyne, a recent Yale Law School graduate who dreams of clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court someday. Audrey moves to California to clerk for Judge Christina Wong Stinson, a highly regarded appeals-court judge who is Audrey’s ticket to a Supreme Court clerkship. While working for the powerful and driven Judge Stinson, Audrey discovers that high ambitions come with a high price. Toss in some headline-making cases, a little romance, and a pesky judicial gossip blog, and you have a legal novel with the inside scoop you’d expect from the founder of Above the Law, one of the nation’s most widely read and influential legal websites.
Many of the challenges facing the legal profession can be reduced to supply and demand: too many lawyers chasing too little work, which itself results from too many people going to law school. And why do people go to law school? Often it’s a failure of imagination. As a former professor of mine put it, “Law school is the great American default option for smart kids who can’t stand the sight of blood.” If you’re intelligent, ambitious, and undecided about your future, going directly from college to law school is the path of least resistance. Too little resistance, and not enough deliberation.
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Judge Uses The "Mommy Voice."
Judge Uses The “Mommy Voice.”
Benchslap Of The Day: Just. Produce. The Documents!, by David Lat, Above The Law Blog
http://abovethelaw.com/2014/02/benchslap-of-the-day-just-produce-the-documents/
What’s the “Mommy Voice?” We have all been there, and may have used it ourselves. It’s when your parent – usually your mother — calls you using your first, middle, and last names in a no-nonsense voice. Usually, whatever happens…
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