March 10, 2021 at 4:16 PM
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Unpaid labor, whether in the form of unpaid internships or full-time positions, is a societal ill. It blatantly exploits those who have the financial means to do work without pay, and robs those who actually need to get paid for the work they do of meaningful experiences. But that doesn’t mean the federal government is somehow above using this cheat code.
We’ve written about this phenomenon before beginning way back in 2011. But 10 years later and not much has changed, because the Department of Justice is, yet again, seeking experienced, barred attorneys to commit to a full-time, unpaid job. Hmmmm, I wonder just who is in a financial position to take advantage of this “opportunity” [all the side eye]. As the tipster who sent the below job listing to Above the Law noted, “The actual audacity.”
March 9, 2021 at 1:33 PM
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Ed note: This article first appeared on The Juris Lab, a forum where “data analytics meets the law.”
There are two Supreme Court bars in common D.C. parlance.
The first is the quintessential Supreme Court Bar that lawyers must belong to in order to practice before the United States Supreme Court. The second is a tongue in cheek way of indicating a small batch of repeat player Supreme Court specialist attorneys with high levels of success.
While the second definition is a colloquial description of this group of attorneys, there is little empirical evidence supporting the proposition that they are more successful than other attorneys.
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Paul McLeary on March 09, 2021 at 1:59 PM
Adm. Phil Davidson in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
WASHINGTON: The head of the Indo-Pacific command believes China might try to annex Taiwan “in this decade, in fact within the next six years,” as part of its massive military buildup in the region.
Adm. Phil Davidson told the Senate Armed Services Committee that China is “accelerating their ambitions to supplant the United States and our leadership role in the rules-based international order,” which they’ve long said that they want to do by 2050. “I’m worried about them moving that target closer. Taiwan is clearly one of their ambitions before that, and I think the threat is manifest during this decade, in the next six years.”
Security professionals are increasingly observing multiple threat actors, from nation-states to cryptominers, exploiting the vulnerabilities. As for China-based HAFNIUM, This is part of the much larger Chinese effort to constantly be ferreting out new vulnerabilities and then exploiting them with no end in sight, said Heritage s Dean Cheng. The Chinese will pay close attention to the Biden administration response.
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Brad D. Williams on March 09, 2021 at 1:34 PM
We often talk about interoperability , okay, the ability to operate with another nation, or even among the services, says Rear Adm. Loren Selby, Office of Naval Research chief. But there s a distinct difference between interoperability and interchangeability, which involves developing specs and standards together to meet mutual requirements.
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Theresa Hitchens on March 09, 2021 at 1:43 PM
Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle, AFRL director
WASHINGTON: US service science and technology leaders want to expand collaboration with their regional counterparts in the Indo-Pacific and to start working together earlier in the development process. That means not just kludging largely-finished systems together towards the end of development, which can at best achieve “interoperability,” but cooperating on early-stage research and requirements development to achieve technical “interchangeability.”