Please, someone check on them.
The topic that will not go away... because the DOJ keeps refusing to comply.
As Biglaw firms expand, the equity partnership remains a carefully guarded club.
Operations in Iran, midterm elections, and GOP intraparty politics could all complicate the defense budget's path to President Donald Trump's desk.
* White House ballroom construction resumes for now. [Reuters]
* Winston carries healthy profit growth into its merger with Taylor Wessing. [American Lawyer]
* Fourth Circuit agrees to let Big Ballz have all your Social Security information. Surely nothing can go wrong! [Courthouse News Service]
* Speaking of the Fourth Circuit, Judge Julius Richardson in a concurrence declared that emergency orders were “precedent” which is, um, not at all how that works. [One First]
* Oil companies want a litigation shield like the gun manufacturers have. [New York Times]
* Ed Blum is back with a new effort to purge Black students from schools. [Balls and Strikes]
* Trump elevates another of his personal attorneys to the appellate bench. [Law360]
* Wisconsin switches to the UBE for out-of-state admits. [ABA Journal]
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out: Pam Bondi’s tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar disciplinary investigation, unless Florida invents another reason to absolve Bondi of accountability for her actions.
Epstein, Who?: Meanwhile, Bondi hopes to use her firing to get out of explaining the Epstein files to Congress.
The Annual “Which Gilded Cage Is Most Prestigious” Survey: Vault again ranks the 100 most prestigious law firms in America.
Trolls Gonna Troll: Law school Federalist Society chapter invites Amy Wax to share her thoughts about the problem with women and minorities.
Diploma With A Two-Drink Minimum: Georgetown Law replaces its graduation gala with a school happy hour and many students aren’t happy.
Time Is Relative, Especially On A Timesheet: Lawyer bills more hours than exist in a calendar day, professional hilarity ensues.
The More It Smiles, The More You Should Worry: Legal AI tools optimized for user satisfaction are also the ones most likely to confidently hallucinate a fake circuit court opinion.
The USFL Never Died, It Just Became Federal Policy: Trump deploys the DOJ against the NFL over grievances that predate most of his current staff, because using the justice system as a personal grudge machine apparently has no statute of limitations.
The Pentagon’s Legal Battles Going About As Well As Iran: The Defense Department benchslapped over press policy.
Cops Arrest Woman For Protesting While Wearing A Penis Costume: Can’t believe the prosecution took this case!
Regional Excellence: Check out Vault’s regional ranking of firms.
Justice Sotomayor Tells Law Students To Master AI: What will be the consequences of that mastery?
In Other News, People Still Care About Amy Wax: She got invited to speak by Cornell’s FedSoc chapter.
$35M Is A Lot Of Money!: WilmerHale is facing public scrutiny over a bill that has some wild pay jumps and logged hours.
The nonequity partner blues.
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
Not every office is a hive of contented workers performing with the smooth efficiency of a hive mind.
The unfortunate reality is that hallucinations are a feature of LLM systems, not a bug.
Designed to reduce manual docket work by prioritizing what litigators need most: on-demand full docket summarization that explains the whole case to date, followed by on-demand document summaries for filing triage, and AI-powered natural language searching for faster search and retrieval.
Behind the scenes, the justices may be cordial, but the votes tell a different story.
Life comes at you fast, especially at $162K a day.
But with more grunting.
Which law firms are considered to be at the top of their game? Let's find out!
Amy Wax is back on the troll train.
Whither the structural analysis, Sotomayor?
The case for leaving Biglaw? Boutique litigation shops are offering the kind of hands-on work lawyers say they’ve been missing.
We need to start with thinking of AI not as a person but a product with a foreseeable engineering risk.
