High percentage of grads pass bar within 2 years, ABA says

Bloomberg Law: "Almost 90% of graduates of accredited law schools passed a bar exam within two years of graduation, the American Bar Association said in a new report."

Wyoming’s first female supreme court justice paved the way for others

Casper Star Tribune: "Marilyn Kite was living in Jackson, working as an attorney and raising her son when she got the call. Justice Richard Macy was retiring. The Wyoming Supreme Court would have an opening. Would she consider it?"

How quickly should courts change the law? Florida tests the limit

Christian Science Monitor: "When the Florida Supreme Court ruled late last month that a unanimous jury is not required for the state to hand down a death sentence, the decision reverberated in the state prisons that house hundreds of felons already sentenced to death."

For the first time, flagship law journals at top U.S. law schools are all led by women

Washington Post: "Only one woman worked on the staff of the Harvard Law Review when Ruth Bader Ginsburg arrived on campus in 1956. It would be another two decades before a woman was elected to lead the school’s prestigious legal journal."

Alaska lawyer blends life and law as a tribal court judge and an Orthodox Jew

ABA Journal: "How does a Jewish kid from Philly become a tribal court judge in Alaska? Just ask Judge David Avraham Voluck."

Canada: B.C.'s oldest practising lawyer just turned 100 and isn't retiring yet

CBC News: "It takes a lot to slow down Constance Isherwood, British Columbia's oldest practising lawyer. She took only a few days off work after the city of Victoria was hit with a snowstorm last week that forced schools and businesses to close."

Banished native women fight tribal leaders in federal court

NPR News: "Four women from the nation's second largest Indian reservation have turned to the federal court system after they were banished by tribal leadership last year."

Writing a will that says something about who you are - not what you have

MPR News: "When we talk about wills, we often talk of money, of assets and valuables. But there's growing interest in wills that pass down lessons learned, guidance for a life well-lived — a legacy."