What’s Happening in Legal | September 8

Martindale-Avvo presents What’s Happening in Legal, our bi-weekly news flying around the legal community:

• According to a new-trial request, a meddling clerk ‘betrayed her oath of office’ in Alex Murdaugh murder case
• Thomas Moukawasher, a complex litigation judge, offers 50 proposals for simplifying the courts
• A North Carolina lawyer told the disciplinary committee that her fake-client method was “permissible”
• The mean scaled score for the multiple-choice component of the bar exam sees slight increase
• The U.S. Postal Service will shortly release a commemorative stamp honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• A judge is under investigation for ‘profane, degrading’ Facebook posts
• Maine’s highest court upholds the suspension of a lawyer who urged an employee to attend his CLE classes
• The legal industry shed 4,200 jobs, falling far short of last year’s record
• The U.S. Department of Justice Federal initiative recovers over $836M in stolen COVID-19 relief funds

Check back in two weeks for another issue of Martindale-Avvo’s What’s Happening in Legal.