September has arrived and the new Supreme Court term is just four short weeks away. Lots of petitions have been filed over the summer, and we have a look at a new feature the justices require in them. Also, some of the new term’s cases offer a rare look at top practitioners’ billing rates—and we have the dollar figures.

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