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Adam Feldman (President, EmpiriLaw), A Map of Destinations: What Elite-Firm Associate Rosters Reveal About Law-School Pipelines: [W]hen people ask which law schools place students at elite firms, what can the available data actually show? The rosters that firms publish on their own websites are public, current, and det
Christie Melendez offers this useful summary of the many schools now offering on-line JD programs of one sort or another. She explains different categories of school, how ABA approvals differ, and which schools offer which sort of program. We face a rapidly changing landscape and this helps readers keep up. Alas, I fea
Bloomberg (Miri Forster and Sarah Adkisson), Aspiring Influencer’s Tax Case Shows the Importance of Receipts: Receipt culture is everywhere, especially in the tax world. The US Tax Court decision last month in Sami v. Commissioner, a case involving an aspiring social media influencer, highlights the importance of keepi
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Jews Need to Get Personal With God, by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall (DePaul; Author, Polarized: Why American Jews are Divided and What to Do About it (2026):The mere belief in a ‘higher power’ is an impoverished form of spiritual sustenance. The holiest time of the Jewish year is approaching. Acco
Stanford Daily, Justice Clarence Thomas Blasts Stanford Law School as ‘Off Limits’ to Conservatives: Despite serving as a Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas says that Stanford Law School (SLS) is still “off limits” to him. Thomas made those comments at a Hoover Institution event last month commemorating the legacy
Following up on Kevin Johnson’s post from earlier today, here’s what The Austin American-Statesman reports about the University of Austin’s, (sometimes referred to as UATX) plans to launch a new law school as soon as 2028. As Dean Johnson noted, UATX will eschew ABA accreditation. Time to degree will be shorter. Practi
Emily Cauble (Wisconsin) has recently published a new piece, Channels of Tax Law (Mis)Information, 2026 U. Ill. L. Rev. 543. Here’s the abstract: This Article sheds light on a pervasive phenomenon. In a variety of contexts, third parties provide information about tax law to taxpayers. The information provided by these
The Free to Think 2026 report published by Scholars at Risk on September 15, 2026, documents 382 attacks on higher education communities across 59 countries and territories between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026. The report discusses escalating pressures on higher education in the United States. From the report’s sect
Perry Cooper (Bloomberg Law): Maryland Appeals Google, Apple, Peacock’s Take Down of Ad Tax Maryland asked a state trial court in documents obtained by Bloomberg Law Monday to unwind rulings striking down its first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising challenged by Google LLC, Peacock TV LLC, and Apple Inc. The Mar
Chris Cioffi & Lauren Vella (Bloomberg Law): Republican Floats Package to Deter DSTs, Boost Foreign Credits A key Republican tax writer is floating a new package of international tax proposals that includes a tool to blunt digital services taxes — a longstanding target of criticism by the Trump administration and lawma
Laura Saunders (WSJ): Why I’m Trying to Stop the IRS From Giving Me a Tax Refund This Year It is time to start year-end tax planning, and this year I’m doing something different. For the first time, I’m planning to owe taxes next April 15 instead of getting a refund. Weiss says he’s considering avoiding […] The post WS
Above the Law, Teenage Law Grad Thinks Getting A Tax LLM Will Be A ‘Little Vacation’His idea of rest and relaxation involves the Internal Revenue Code. I think it’ll be fun. I like tax, so I think it’s going to be like a little vacation. Daily Northwestern, 18-Year-Old Prodigy Jimmy Chilimigras Attends Pritzker for Spe
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