We should not expect the courts to give the marijuana industry any tax relief -- that is going to have to come from Congress.

Law Blog rounds up the morning news.

Law graduates from all over the country will be sitting for the bar exam this week. If you are one of these exam takers, we want to wish you the best of luck! You have spent the last few months studying, now all your hard work is about to pay off. Be sure to spend […]

Three impressive couples; who deserves top honors?

Columnist Jeena Cho with last minute bar exam tips.

The bar exam is boring and stressful, but hopefully you'll be able to make it slightly less miserable for yourselves after reading this advice.

Which firms fared well in three big surveys of diversity within Biglaw?

This is likely what will happen to you if you've been arrested in New York, provided you're not black or Hispanic, not an illegal immigrant, and don't have a prior criminal record.

Explaining everything wrong with mandatory minimums in 15 minutes.

Columnist Tamara Tabo examines the case of Sandra Bland, the young woman who died in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas.

A San Diego judge indicated that he intends to dismiss a lawsuit against the state brought by three terminally ill patients seeking to strike down a California law that forbids a physician from prescribing lethal doses of “aid-in-dying” drugs to speed up their deaths.

* Cocaine-swiping judge out on work release. [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] * Autozone settles $185 million suit over firing a pregnant worker. [Jezebel] * Once Donald Trump shuts up about illegal immigrants, maybe the adults in the room can start talking about the horrific conditions facing legal…

A former county clerk staffer in Indiana who says she lost her job for refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she's a victim of religious discrimination.

The market for emerging company and venture capital associates will be robust across the U.S. over the next year.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

Clerks are not being persecuted, they're being unprofessional.

Next time you put your phone in your pocket, make really, really sure that it's off.

Other than the rare examples of law schools here and here, you’re going to need to take the LSAT to get into law school.

You might be disappointed with your results.

Congratulations to these great law firms on their commitment to hiring, retaining, and promoting diverse attorneys.

It's nice when taxpayers lose a team and nothing more.

This case has major implications for technology, data privacy, cloud computing, international relations, U.S. business interests, and media, so it deserves close attention.

A law school in Indiana is offering students an unbeatable price -- a year of law school tuition free. There is a catch, though.

Partner departures, staff layoffs, and an office closing, oh my!

Aging society is driving the growth in the population of older prisoners, a coming study finds.

* Remember The Spread Love Band? They're the street band that played near Skadden's D.C. office. Skadden hated them so much they tried to convince the Secret Service to shoo them. Now they're playing the Kennedy Center. It's like the old joke, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" except instead of…

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

The ATL Academy for Private Practice: Volume 1 -- Getting Started eBook offers insight into meeting the challenges of starting and optimizing your small firm or solo practice.

You'll never guess the answer to this question.

Do not pass Go, Do not collect $200 from Indy Tech Law.

Managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld notes that if you look at the most profitable law firms in recent years, a good chunk of them are "pure play" firms.

One of our US law firm clients in Korea has an urgent opening in their litigation practice. The new hire will be fluent in Korean and come from a US litigation, antitrust or arbitration practice at a major law firm, with 2+ years experience. Candidates from Asia, Europe and US markets are welcome.…

Text expansion and document automation are two great ways to streamline your practice, according to attorney David Sparks.

We have new case law on butt-dialing and it is awesome.

Video is one of the best marketing strategies to use to grow your law firm because one new video per week on a topic helps build trust, authority, and expert status in your practice area.

State attorneys general are putting pressure on phone companies to offer more sophisticated call-blocking services to their customers.

You need to respect this firm's ad. Because otherwise they'll have someone kill you.

A decades-long constitutional battle over the fate of a 29-foot cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego could be coming to a close thanks to a land deal struck by the federal government.

* Taylor Swift has renegotiated her photography contract. Where her old contract allowed her to rough up photogs, there's now a blank space, baby. Ugh. [Poynter] * How much of a dick is this guy? At his federal criminal trial his sole character witness admitted, "we're not friends." [NY Post] * Give…

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.