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BLOOMBERG TAX — Even before Donald Trump said he would pull $400 million in funding from Columbia University on Friday, officials at the wealthiest US colleges were making efforts to fight monetary salvos from his administration.
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REUTERS — President Donald Trump‘s executive orders terminating security clearances and taking other actions against two prominent law firms may violate constitutional protections and represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, according to legal experts.
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BLOOMBERG LAW — Perkins Coie risks losing clients over President Donald Trump’s threat to terminate federal contracts for companies doing business with the law firm.
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NCBE — Texas is moving forward with plans to administer the NextGen bar exam beginning in July 2028.
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ABA JOURNAL — The legal industry is facing a big problem with deepfakes.
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REUTERS — U.S. law firm Perkins Coie sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday, claiming Trump illegally retaliated against the firm over its work for his former opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, and its policies promoting diversity and inclusion.
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REUTERS — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi called for the American Bar Association to immediately repeal its law school diversity rule and scrap a planned revision of that standard in a letter to the ABA posted to a social media site on Wednesday by a U.S. Justice Department official.
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REUTERS — The State Bar of California on Wednesday launched an independent investigation of its February bar exam, a newly created test that was marred by widespread technical and logistical problems.
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THE HILL — Georgetown Law School Dean William Treanor is defending his school’s curriculum after the Washington, D.C., U.S. attorney threatened to not hire any students from institutions that teach diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
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ABA JOURNAL — California bar hunts for who leaked bar questions, applicants sue test administrator
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