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The Legal Ethics Roundup - your Monday morning tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson

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Hello from San Francisco, where I’m attending the annual meeting of the American Law Institute this week.

Today is the four year anniversary of our book release for Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court, so it was fitting that my co-author Hannah Johnson (Cal…