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You Really Should Just Stick To ‘Your Honor’ — See Also

Attorney Closes Zoom Call By Calling Judge A “F****** C***”: If you thought that was bad, wait until you hear his excuse!

The Tish James Indictment Looks Like A Hard Sell: Wasting tax payer money for the sake of Trump’s vengeance.

Dear Deans, This Is For You!: Just change out your school name to add a little personal flair to your next free speech announcement.

FASORP Faces Another Public Loss: The quitters fizzled out before anything meaningful happened.

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Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 10.14.25

* Barack Obama weighs in on capitulating law firms. [The Hill]

* A look at the lawyers giving up big money to challenge the administration. [The New Republic]

* Lawyers discover AI produces little time savings. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Totally serious and not-at-all frivolous lawsuit against Michigan Law Review… dropped. [Reuters]

* Donna Adelson gets life sentence. [CNN]

* AI artist asks Supreme Court for copyright protection. [Law.com]

* Trump business partner liable in money laundering scheme. [Law360]

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Magically Disappearing Partners — See Generally

Who? Never Heard Of ‘Em: Kirkland decides not to name the new partners.

Disappearing Lawyers The Old Fashioned Way: Cadwalader loses nearly 40 in raid.

DOJ Gets Creative: And annoys judge in the process.

We Expect Fake History, But This Is Ridiculous!: Federal judges asked to explain how fake cites ended up in their opinions.

We’re Not Saying They’re Connected, But…: Judge’s home burns down after she ruled against Trump administration and Stephen Miller told the faithful that judges are shielding terrorists.

I Used To Bullseye Womprats: Harvard Law professor arrested after going rat hunting.

Don’t Take The Brown Acid: Deloitte caught issuing report with AI hallucinations.

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The DOJ Isn’t Getting Their Way — See Also

If You Fail Once, Try Failing A Second Time: Good luck getting a local statute to bind the federal judiciary!

Trump Admitted To Taking The Right To Free Speech Away: Hard to get more anti-American than that.

Is Your Firm Outsourcing Recruitment To Law Students?: This is the nonsense that happens when you get rid of NALP guardrails.

He’s Not Like Us, Legally: Federal judges dismisses Drake’s lawsuit against UMG.

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