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He is known as “The Man Who Killed Jim Crow” and the first General Counsel of the NAACP, but his contributions don’t stop there.

A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, …

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday evening to confirm President Biden's pick for a seat on the bench in the U.S. District of Oregon (view full article).

Judge Amy M.…

Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and in 1966, became the first to serve as a federal judge.

Motley graduated from Columbia Law School in 1946. While…

Constance Baker Motley was the first Black woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and in 1966, became the first to serve as a federal judge. Motley graduated from Columbia Law School in 1946. While studying law, she went to work for the NAACP’s legal staff, joining Robert L. Carter, who…

The University of Maryland announces its newly-built 70,000-square foot state-of-the-art School of Public Policy building will…

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as first Black woman and 116th Supreme Court justice on Thursday, June 30, 2022 (access…

In April 2023, Elizabeth Brown Luck made history as the first person of color appointed as Chief of the Defender Services Office at the Administrative Office (AO) of the United States Courts.

With over 30 years of dedicated service to the Defender Services program, Elizabeth brings a…

The Fifth Circuit — which covers federal courts in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas — would be the first federal appeals court to adopt an AI rule, if implemented.

The proposed rule, floated last year, would require lawyers to certify that no generative AI program was used to draft the…

The Second Circuit referred a New York attorney for punishment Tuesday for submitting a brief citing a fake case generated by ChatGPT and not checking over the brief to catch the mistake (view full article)

The lawyer was referred to…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was described by 60 Minutes reporter Cecilia Vega as ‘an agency in crisis’ (…