Kennedy-family member Michael Skakel’s 2002 conviction for the 1976 murder of his neighbor was overturned last month because a Connecticut judge held that Skakel’s attorney, the television legal commentator Mickey Sherman, did an inexcusably poor job defending his client despite being paid more than $1.2 million to do the job. So reports The New York Times.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo last week signed into law regulations that grant young print and runway models rights—including provisions for future financial security and offers of study time and snack breaks—that the Empire State had previously not afforded them. So Reuters reports.

Two new studies examine the legal community’s opinion of the primary repositories of legal scholarship, law review articles. So reports The New York Times.

A 2011 Cornell Law School graduate has lost custody of her son after accepting a clerkship with a trial judge in New Jersey, the lone job offer she got following a 9-month job search.