Reed Cordish is leaving his post as assistant to the president in the Office of American Innovation, where he is being replaced by Brooke Rollins, the Washington Post reports. Rollins is a former aide to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, from his time as Texas governor....
Legal conference season is already beginning, and there’s no time like the present to start considering what 2018 will look like for you as a legal professional. How will you improve yourself and your law firm this year? Attending a legal technology conference could help. Why...
The stunning number swept across the Internet within minutes of Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida. Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit group, co-founded by Michael Bloomberg, that works to prevent gun violence, said, “This is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.” A...
On February 21 at 12:45 p.m. PST, Stanford University’s CodeX will host a presentation by Daniel Martin Katz entitled, “How Crowdsourcing Accurately and Robustly Predicts Supreme Court Decisions.” More information about this event, which will include remote access, is available at this link. Relatedly, this blog...
The morning after the school massacre in Parkland, Fl., NBC’s “Today Show” asked Samantha Grady, a student who had witnessed the shooting of her best friend and classmate, “Do you know how [your friend] is doing?” “Yeah, unfortunately, she didn’t make it,” replied Grady, breaking...
President Trump has not nominated a director of the Office on Violence Against Women in the Justice Department. That person oversees a budget of more than $450 million and is supposed to be the administration’s leading voice on domestic and sexual violence, both nationally and...