A New York litigation attorney was criticized for advising his client to turn down an $8 million offer to settle a medical malpractice case filed on behalf of a girl with cerebral palsy.

Whole sections of states like South Dakota—where 65% of the lawyers live in four urban areas—are in danger of not having access to legal services, reports the New York Times.

A professor at Pepperdine School of Law has ranked state bar exams by difficulty using an algorithm that takes into account not just passage rates, like most rankings do, but also the LSAT scores of the law students who took the exams, according to an article in Above the Law.