Midsize Law Firm Closing Its Doors After 21 Years Following Partner Exodus
A shrinking roster and a booming Atlanta market prove to be an unsustainable combination.
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Judge Throws IT Worker Out Of Courtroom For Doing His Job
Viral video captures judge treating a tech support staffer like a hostile witness for pointing out that everything was working fine.
‘This Is Crazy’: Health Experts Call For Changes To The No Surprises Act
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Morning Docket: 03.30.26
* ‘Don’t blame your associate’ for messing up AI. Sure, but then why even have associates? [ABA Journal]
* The DOJ seeks superseding indictments in all the cases invalidated by pretending Alina Habba was the US Attorney. [New Jersey Law Jounral]
* Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee votes to block judges from replacing illegal appointees like Habba. Note that they didn’t fix the illegality, just the ability to do anything to fix it. [Roll Call]
* Department of Defense’s block on Anthropic suspended for now. [Reuters]
* BofA agrees to deal to get them off Epstein’s Island. [Law360]
* Dutch order Grok to stop being nonconsensual porn generator as if Grok does anything else. [Law.com International]
Birthdays Come And Go, But Billable Hours Are Forever — See Generally
Biglaw Partner Drops Future Therapy Fodder: Asked how she juggles being a working mom, a newly minted partner offered a refreshingly horrifying answer: sometimes you miss your own kid’s birthday party.
The AI Pipeline Crisis Nobody Wants To Talk About: AI won’t replace lawyers, but it might create a critical shortage of good ones.
Major Regional Firm Calling It Quits: Atlanta’s Taylor Duma is shutting down after 21 years, given “the influx of firms into the Atlanta market.”
One Law Firm Commits To Doing Something About Broken Recruiting Model: Susman Godfrey is done trying to fight over recruits who haven’t even finished their first set of exams.
Former Attorney Generals… They’re Just Like Us!: Bill Barr spotted in a 3-hour TSA line at Houston’s IAH, courtesy of the president he sacrificed his reputation for.
Trump Says His Own Supreme Court Appointees “Sicken” Him: Girl, same.
My Cousin Vinny Somehow Managed To Get More Realistic Through The Studio Revision Process: In a fun exercise, Litera used the draft screenplays from My Cousin Vinny to show off its document comparison tool and AI assistant.
Jay Clayton’s SDNY Throws ICE Under The Nearest Available Bus: Clayton’s office informed the court that they’ve been accidentally lying to judges for months and it’s all ICE’s fault.
ATL March Madness Bracket Enters The Elite Eight: Voting continues through Monday to decide the Trump lawyer most deserving of their eventual disbarment.