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New Merger Alert! — See Also

Welcome To The Fold, FBT Gibbons!: They are set to go live on January 1st, 2026.

Crime May Actually Pay: Sullivan & Cromwell got scammed for half a million dollars.

Here Is The Letitia James Indictment: Who needs evidence, really?

Can You Argue A Murder Charge In 11 Hours Flat?: Oregon wants that to be the new standard.

Future Lawyers Won’t Need A Backbone Or A Heart Beat: How will the practice adopt to AI attorneys?

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Exclusive: Passle Launches Intelligence Map To Visualize Cross-Selling Activity Within A Law Firm

The Cross-Selling Intelligence Map creates a network diagram showing how thought leadership content flows among a firm’s attorneys across different offices and practice areas.

That 70s Show: Why Your 70s Might Be The Perfect Time To Start A Law Firm

Practice opportunities are wide open to serve clients who are likely to feel more comfortable around a lawyer who looks like them.

Relativity Offers Key AI Products At No Extra Charge — But That’s Not The Most Important Thing

What were previously only obtainable by paying a separate and additional charge will now essentially be free for Relativity customers.

The Forgotten Art Of Brainstorming: How To 10x Creativity In Group Settings

There is value in having the entire team contribute input, ideas, creativity, and imagination to a plan before finalizing and implementing it.

When Will AI Be Your Opposing Counsel?

My mind explodes with all the possibilities of AI as lawyers.

Small Business Fund Used By DoD Teeters On The Edge

Senate lawmakers are at an impasse over the Small Business Innovation Research program, a key program used by the Pentagon to provide seed funding for small firms.

Morning Docket: 10.09.25

* Woman who defrauded JP Morgan used her indemnification clause to make JP Morgan pay almost as much in legal bills as the whole scam was worth. [NY Post]

* Following D.C.’s lead, Chicago grand juries are declining to indict people rounded up by the Trump administration. [MSNBC]

* Baldoni and Lively fight spills out into malpractice claim. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Former Overstock.com CEO defaults in defamation case brought by Hunter Biden. [Courthouse News Service]

* Ninth Circuit allows Trump to federalize Oregon National Guard but keeps a temporary ban on deployment. [Bloomberg Law News]

* LBR acquires Legal Geek. [Law.com]

* Clarence Thomas may have created a loophole to resuscitate affirmative action. Too bad he explicitly doesn’t think the Court should be bound by any prior decision. [Slate]

World’s Richest Law Firm Is Hush Hush About Their New Partners — See Also

Kirkland Opts Out Of Announcing Their New Partners: Is it because they are too ashamed after partners lateral out?

Would Have Gotten Away With It Too If Not For The Lack Of Evidence!: The Trump administration is having a hard time prosecuting James Comey.

Williams & Connolly Hit By Hackers: They join the number of firms hit by Chinese hackers searching for sensitive information.

Grading Doesn’t Stop After Law School: Law professor catches law firm’s failure to clean up after AI hallucinations.

Politics Boosts Law School Application Numbers: Weird time to want to think like a lawyer!

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Utah paves a way without the bar exam.

Biglaw’s Litigation Growth Strategy

The top of Biglaw is adding some new litigation work to their roster.

New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Skirts Jail Time Over Investigation Interference

‘Do the crime, pay the fine!’ doesn't really have a strong ring to it.

Law Professor Catches Deloitte Using Made-Up AI Hallucinations In Government Report

Those cites didn't pass the smell test.

Kamala Harris Gets Really Real — And Really Profane — About The Trump Administration

The former VP said what many are really thinking about Trump and his political stooges.