Elite Law Firm Wows Associates With Market-Beating Summer Bonuses
Summer bonuses have officially arrived for associates! Who's up next? Stay tuned!
The Blickstein COO Study Reflects Continued Lawyer Hubris, Arrogance, Independence — And Dread
Why do firms not value the COOs and resist what they say?
PACER Gets Pwned: Hackers Breach Dinosaur Filing System
Who could've imagined that PACER wasn't at the cutting edge of security?
Morning Docket: 08.08.25
* Tariffs starting to drag down client earnings. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Reed Smith putting a cheerful face on massive defections to Crowell. [American Lawyer]
* An interview with Andry Hernández, the makeup artist the Trump administration kidnapped and sent to El Salvador torture prison. [Bulwark/YouTube]
* Law license reform efforts dismissed by casually branding applicants as weak. It’s not just for America anymore! [LegalCheek]
* Does Greg Abbott have a case against Texas Democrats? No, of course not. [Lawfare]
* Historians will debate when the federal government went started to go off the rails, but this is a pretty compelling case for INS v. Chadha. [SSRN]
* Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer says he loves representing the underdog. Just another one of those “underdogs” who the entire Justice Department has retooled itself around buying their silence. [Vanity Fair]
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