FCPA / GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT JUNIOR OPENINGS AT TOP US FIRMS IN HONG KONG – PRACTICE SWITCH FROM CORPORATE / CAP MARKETS CANDIDATES WILL BE CONSIDERED

The most lucrative practice area in Hong Kong / China nowadays, profit per lawyer, at top US law firms is FCPA / Government Enforcement / Corporate Investigations. Firms with boots on the ground in Asia in this practice area are extremely busy and most are hiring. However, there are not nearly enough Mandarin fluent US […]

Law School Sued After Firing Tenured Professors

Everything seems to be unraveling for this law school.

BP Finally Caps Money It’s Been Spilling Out Into The Gulf

The $53 billion dollar oil spill.

People fainting on live television: a very strange supercut video.

I guess people faint on live television rather a lot. (more…)

Police bosses charged over 2012 shooting in black Cleveland suburb

Five white Cleveland police supervisors accused of failing to stop a chase that ended with a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire and the deaths of two black suspects were charged Thursday with misdemeanors in the predominantly black suburb where the shooting occurred.

The officers supervisors charged are Michael Donegan, 44 of Cleveland, Patricia Coleman, 50 of Brooklyn, Randolph Dailey, 46 of North Ridgeville, Jason Edens, 44 of Avon, and Paul Wilson, 51 of Cleveland

East Cleveland Prosecutor Willa Hemmons said they are the same dereliction of duty charges that a county grand jury indicted the supervisors on in May 2014, to which they all pled not guilty. The supervisors are scheduled to go on trial July 27 before the same judge who acquitted a white officer on manslaughter charges in the Nov. 29, 2012, deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams. Read more...

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Smigin Is a Foreign Language Tool That Doesn’t Make You Sound Like A Tourist

If you’ve ever tried to learn a foreign language, you probably know that most existing methods focus on aspects of the language that aren’t very helpful in everyday life. For example, newcomers to a language are often first taught the names of animals or colors, words that aren’t normally applicable to the common traveler. Smigin aims to fix this problem with its app… Read More

Non-Sequiturs: 07.02.15

Ed. note: Above the Law will have a reduced publishing schedule today and we're off on Friday, July 3, in observance of whipping those English wankers a couple centuries ago. * After the German robot ran amok and killed a worker in a VW plant, prosecutors are struggling to figure out whom to charge in this violation of Asimov's First Law. [Josh Blackman's Blog] * Dean Erwin Chemerinsky thinks Ted Cruz is right about the Supreme Court. [The New Republic] * In the wake of Obergefell, Bloomberg chats with Margaret H. Marshall, the former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who wrote the opinion making that state the first to legalize same-sex marriage. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * California February bar exam results. A couple of schools got a 100 percent passage rate. Stanford was not one of them. [Bar Exam Stats] * Love wins. The Chamber of Commerce wins more. [Constitutional Accountability Center] * A not-entirely-partisan argument that Justice Scalia should retire. He may be slipping into William O. Douglas circa 1975 territory. [Dorf on Law] * Did you know that David Lat was supposed to play Quentin Tarantino's role in Pulp Fiction? I didn't either until I saw this video (at 0:48). [ClickHole]