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At the end of the first episode of the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm (spoiler alert!), Larry David gets arrested in Atlanta after handing a water bottle to a voter in line at a polling place. I’ve spent time working on voting rights in Georgia and my first thought was, “Oh I would love […]

Lawyers work remotely in the post-pandemic world. Lawyers also increasingly specialize, a trend that has been on the rise for decades. But the current ethical rules do not reflect the new paradigm. The Association for Professional Responsibility Lawyers (APRL) published a report almost two years ago proposing changes to address this new reality. In response, […]

A so-called “SLAPP” suit is a strategic lawsuit against public participation—a case brought by one side of a political or public policy debate aimed to punish or prevent the opposite side from expressing its views. Like most states, D.C. has an anti-SLAPP law that allows defendants to bring an early motion to dismiss a SLAPP […]

Some of the most important cases in the country are litigated in D.C. courts. That means lawyers not barred in D.C. or not admitted to practice in a given court here often need to appear in D.C. courts. Whether they are patent lawyers from Silicon Valley or securities lawyers from New York, those lawyers from […]