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When Harvey Talks Competition, Legal Tech Better Listen

Harvey's creators are less concerned about legal tech vendors and more about competition from OpenAI itself.

Defense Trade Press Statement On Media Restrictions At The Pentagon

Breaking Defense joins with other trade publications in rejecting the Pentagon’s press restrictions.

Morning Docket: 10.16.25

* Law school applications up 33 percent. Or “nearly half” as some lawyers would say. [Reuters]

* Supreme Court’s voting rights argument reveals justices more than willing to roll back the law to 1950s. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Michigan State Title IX investigators may have collaborated with university lawyers. [State News]

* The lawyer-to-blacksmith pipeline is alive and well. [CBS News]

* Trump DOJ wastes tons of taxpayer money on frivolous cases, but the costs to the accused matter almost as much winning. [NPR]

* Billboard lawyer drops a partner “adds new one with familiar sounding name.” [Houston Chronicle]

* Administration plans to close CFPB in 2-3 months. This comes on the heels of the administration announcing a settlement to drop case over company fleecing our troops. [Law360]

Adios, Tokyo — See Also

O’Melveny & Myers Winds Down Their Tokyo Office: The news comes after almost 40 years of operation.

Downplaying Or Propagandizing?: The Media needs to be careful about how it covers Trump soft launching the Insurrection Act.

Lawyer Fired After Being Outed As A Racist Group Chat Member: Surprise surprise, a bunch of alt-right Republicans say mean things in private.

Donna Adelson Sentenced For Involvement In Dan Markel Murder: She plans to appeal.

Where Does AI All The Way Down Leave Us?: Is it making lawyers worse at their jobs?

You Can’t Put The First Amendment To Bed

Texas law is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

Donna Adelson Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of Her Law Professor Ex-Son-In-Law

Dan Markel was a law professor who taught Criminal Law at Florida State. His life was cut short on June 18th, 2014 by Sigfredo Garcia and Luis Rivera. But they weren’t the only ones responsible. Over time the evidence showed that Garcia and Rivera were paid to kill him. Markel’s death followed a heated custody […]

Trump Is Right: Ban Gender In College Admissions

But will this help Make-America-Masculine-Again? Call it the law of unintended consequences.

TV Legal Analyst Begins Sanewashing Trump Declaring Martial Law

Suggesting that the Insurrection Act is broad enough to cover Donald Trump's plans is nonsense and dangerous.

Streamline To Scale: Transforming Law Firm Workflows For Maximum Impact

Workflows are your operational blueprint that reduce mental load, save time, and ensure that nothing falls through the cracks.

On Campus Hiring Is Broken, And This Isn’t Helping

Just in time for the AI slop to take over.

US Taxpayers Bail Out Argentina’s Bank As Trump’s Tariffs Help It Steal American Farmers’ Largest Market

The Soy (Out of) Luck Club.

Top Biglaw Firm Says Sayonara To Its Tokyo Office

The Biglaw firm is closing its doors in Japan, marking the end of a nearly four-decade run in Tokyo.

As Insurers Drop GLP-1 Coverage, Advocates Search For A Hero In Obesity

Insurers are cutting coverage for costly GLP-1 weight loss drugs, sparking backlash from advocates who say they're vital for treating obesity.

Morning Docket: 10.15.25

* Supreme Court refuses to bail out Alex Jones. [NPR]

* Musk’s effort to skim $56 billion off his meme stock’s willing shareholders continues. [Reuters]

* Pete Hegseth’s personal lawyer — who represented him through sexual assault accusation — behind floundering effort to make media organizations promise to only print happy Defense Department news. [ed. note: Above the Law’s sibling publication Breaking Defense has joined other media outlets in rejecting the policy] [Washington Post]

* SCOTUS considers full return to Jim Crow era districting. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Ballot measure seeks to remove state bar from judge discipline process. [Austin American Statesman]

* Charting the AI-Privacy landscape. [Law.com]

* What are the essential functions of the Supreme Court? [Dorf on Law]

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.

It’s All Relativity: Check out Joe’s rundown of RelativityFest!

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