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New York Times, Allegations Against Prosecutors Bolster Trump’s Criticism of Georgia Case Read here
New York Times, Supreme Court’s New Ethics Code is Toothless, Experts Say Read here
Washington Post, Four Women on the Supreme Court Would Bring Historic Near Gender Parity for Institution Long Dominated by White Men Read here
Politico 13 Legal Experts on How The Breyer Replacement Will Change the Court Read here
National Law Journal, Can’t Have It Both Ways: Sidney Powell’s Defamation Defense Could Put Her in Ethical Bind, Experts Say
CNN, How RBG Went From a ‘Moderate’ Choice to a Fiery Dissenter
New York Times, Their Very Own Loving Story
Law360, Texas Should Cancel Its 2020 Bar Exam
Signal Boost with Zerlina Maxwell and Jess McIntosh, Renee Knake Jefferson on her New Book Shortlisted
Texas Standard, What Might Have Been: The Forgotten History of Women on the Supreme Court Shortlist
National Law Journal, New Book ‘Shortlisted’ Spotlights 9 Women Passed Over for Supreme Court
National Law Journal, Ridiculous and Unhelpful: Commentary on Trump’s Bashing of SCOTUS
Detroit Free Press, Former MSU Law Professor Renee Knake Returns, this Time as a Board Member
Lansing State Journal, New Michigan State Trustee Will Review Some 6,000 Nassar Records the College has Refused to Release
The Detroit News, Whitmer Appoints Legal Ethics Professor to MSU Board of Trustees
Associated Press, Judge’s Hug Not Embraced by All After Dallas Officer’s Trial
CNN, Judges Urged to Make Complaint System More Transparent
Bloomberg, Ban on Courthouse Romance Proposed to Stem Judiciary Harassment
National Law Journal, Witnesses Say Judiciary Needs More Transparency and Reporting Options on Sexual Misconduct
Forbes, Unauthorized Practice of Law Claims Threaten Access to Justice
Bloomberg, Texas Death Row Inmate Back at High Court, Claiming Conflict
National Law Review, Leading Voices Weigh in on TIKD Antitrust Suit
Law.com, The Ethics of Legal Analytics
Law360, End Legal Monopoly With Antitrust Review, Law Prof Says
Texas Standard Radio Show, When a Defendant is Mistreated in Court, Who Polices the Judges?
Christian Science Monitor, For Politicians Facing Misconduct Charges, No Firings
National Public Radio, All Things Considered, Out of State Lawyers Descend on Flint, Michigan, Aid Water Crisis
Wall Street Journal, Women Notch Progress: Females Now Constitute One-Third of Nation’s Ranks of Lawyers
National Law Journal, Lawyering Suits Pile Up at High Court
National Law Journal, High Court Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors
“Renee Knake is a legal ethicist. She concedes the system isn’t perfect, but at least it’s a way for people in Flint to get the legal help they need. ‘I guess my larger problem as an ethicist is, what does it mean to be in a country where people with basic needs like clean water don’t have legal representation to help them navigate the system when government has failed?’”
“‘We want our judges to be human and to show their humanity,’ said Renee Knake, a law professor at the University of Houston and expert in judicial ethics. ‘That’s why our cases are decided by human beings and not machines.’”
Watch Professor Jefferson speak with C-SPAN’s Q&A host Susan Page about Supreme Court shortlists in March 2022
“Professor Renee Knake, Professor of Law & Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics, University of Houston Law Center, says, ‘I am not surprised to see the DOJ taking an official action in this case, and while I cannot predict the future, it seems likely to me that the DOJ will continue to be proactive in this way to the extent other lawyer regulators act in anticompetitive ways that reduce consumer choice.’”
“Renee Newman Knake, a University of Houston law professor, told a joint judicial panel on misconduct that women are pressured ‘to endure harassment silently.’ She encouraged judicial leaders to survey employees to understand the extent of sexual misconduct by judges and spur accountability.”
