Two civil rights groups are trying to build a class action against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over the retailer's former policy of denying health-insurance benefits to the same-sex spouses of gay employees.

* A positive review of Go Set a Watchman (affiliate link) from Professor Brophy. I haven't read it, but it strikes me as a weird choice to make Doctor Manhattan a racist in this one. [The Faculty Lounge] * Standard gun nut operating procedure is to stay quiet after a mass shooting, but this guy…

During the first month and a half of the trial against three former Dewey & LeBoeuf leaders, one defendant’s names has hardly come up: Steven Davis, the former chairman. Tuesday, a key prosecution witness finally had a story to tell about Dewey’s former top executive.

Stop manslaughtering us, climate.

Columnist Tamara Tabo offers praise for Hercules and the Umpire and its author, Judge Richard G. Kopf, who just announced his retirement from blogging.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Alfred M. Postell were once classmates at Harvard Law School. More than 35 years later, the two spend most days about 2.5 miles apart: the former at the Supreme Court Building and the latter on the sidewalks in Northwest Washington.

Advice for students on how to give meaningful law school evaluations.

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

As lawyers, we're all trapped, but we don't have to be prisoners.

Tech columnist Jeff Bennion argues that we could communicate more effectively and de-clutter our inboxes if we stop using email as the only method of communication in the office.

With another funding proposal stymied, just how should states fund Legal Aid?

A prosecutor brings his dog into the office on the weekend. An amusing email exchange ensues.

The day when women are draft eligible can't come soon enough.

In May, Barack Obama signed legislation giving Congress the right to review any deal the six world powers strike with Iran over its nuclear program. Now that such an agreement has been reached, here's how the review process will work.

Columnist Zach Abramowitz gives bar takers 6 tips to survive the home stretch.

Law school admission test scores are an "overvalued predictor" of law school grades, according to a new study.

“Scalia/Ginsburg,” Derrick Wang's highly anticipated comic opera, premiered at the Castleton Festival in Virginia on Saturday evening before an audience that included the real-life Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and critics. The first reviews of the one-act opera are decidedly mixed.

* 50 Cent has declared bankruptcy. Forthwith, he shall be known as "The Secured Creditors' Half-Dollar." [Business Insider] * Nina Totenberg talked with Justice Ginsburg and learned the reason the so-called liberal wing of the Court wrote so few separate opinions: they have agreed to speak with one…

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

Eric Garner's widow is probably making a mistake, but I understand.

The federal government monopolizes nearly all meaningful marijuana research -- and that's a problem, according to cannabis-law columnist Hilary Bricken.

Who has sex on the roof of a courthouse? Apparently these people.

Justice Willett understands just how important eyebrow maintenance is.

Life is simply too short to waste it on doing something that you hate, according to columnist Jeena Cho.

The winning entry is quite clever, isn't it?

Join Microsoft, Above the Law, and Civic Hall for an evening dedicated to discussing the legal issues that arise in the context of Microsoft’s challenge to a search warrant issued for data stored in its Dublin data center, and for the larger conversation regarding the policy ramifications regarding…

What to make of the push to strip public places of symbols of the Old South? Conservative columnist Tamara Tabo opines.

The downward slide in enrollment at law schools has felt like it lasted so long, you wondered whether it was merely a trend or a paradigm shift. The number of LSAT takers released by the Law School Admission Council now suggest strongly that law schools are starting to pull themselves back up.

The requirement to honour thy county judge isn't one of the Ten Commandments, but it can be non-negotiable under American rule of law, a lesson a court has sought to impart to three Michigan children and their mother.

* The slashing of the Quinn Emanuel summer program gets the Dr. Seuss (a great legal inspiration in his own right) treatment. And from what we hear, John Quinn likes this cartoon so much he wants to buy the image. [The Recorder] * Prosecutors subpoena a 3 month old girl to testify. When informed of…

Law Blog rounds up the morning's legal news.

What is going on in the lateral market?

Some questions have lingered, as states that had banned same-sex marriage adjust to the historic shift. Here's a snapshot of the latest developments.

Courts have long grappled with social media in a legal context.

Sometimes the passion and energy that make a great lawyer can bite you in the ass -- sometimes it can get you arrested.

Bad news for for-profit law schools.

Prior to the financial crisis, risk management was often a box-ticking exercise of little or no interest to executives.

You have a couple more precious summer months before starting your life as a future lawyer.

In the past few years, a number of courts have issued standing orders or have issued guidelines or forms to govern the production of electronically stored information (ESI).

Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (Federal Communication Commission – FCC) has been criticized for “commingling of the words “necessity” and “basic human right.”