April 2023

The Senate Can’t Even Hold Justices Accountable Before They Take The Bench: New information was brought to light on Kavanaugh’s investigation.

Refugees Are Losing Asylum Cases Over AI Mistranslations: This would even piss Kafka off.

Katy Perry’s Name Isn’t Just Hers, Court Rules: Talk about bad news from down under.

This Firm Is Still Looking For A Second: Will someone please think of Baker Botts?

The firm had a really good year.

You snooze, you lose. Although he was probably going to lose anyway.

Notes to my (legal) self.

Providing pertinent information or guidance to an interested audience is considered effective marketing content.

Sometimes, clients and attorneys alike need to take steps purely so they will not get into too much trouble if something goes wrong down the line. But this can be costly.

Appellate news of the week.

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Don't pay attention to the Biglaw gossip, the firm is simply 'thriving.'

This is a horrific roadmap to where AI in the legal industry will make things worse before they get better.

Jane Fraser is not interested in being even tangentially caught up in this mess.

I'm just glad this lawsuit had nothing to do with the lyrics in 'Extraterrestrial.'

This is the opposite of confidence inspiring.

The benefits of starting your own law firm are real.

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From the 'So... this is the internet. Have you met me?' Department

* Much like everyone else, law firms have no interest in paying Twitter. [LegalCheek]

* Lawyers think the profession has gotten less civil, but that’s just what those degenerate scumbags would say. [ABA Journal]

* A nice guide to the lawyers working with Jack Smith on Trump’s classified documents case. [ABC News]

* No sooner did we note in this here column that New York would rewrite the rules to make criminal defense work even harder than NYC’s prosecutors reversed their push for the change. They don’t have a vote, but it’s taken a lot of the effort. [NY Times]

* Eleventh Circuit issues 2-1 opinion that suppressing the rights of Black voters is acceptable, but only if you’re coy enough. [Reuters]

* DC Circuit won’t break up Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions. If only they could undo the whole “Meta” part of Facebook. [Law360]

If Chief Justice Roberts Won’t Get The Court In Order, Hopefully Congress Can: Something has to change besides unreported funds being added to top judges’ bank accounts.

Listen Closely Without Letting The Music Use You: No Nightwriters fans on this jury, please and thanks.

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Might Be Deepfaking Their Talents: What a goofy attempt to get out of a deposition.

Roger That: Students at the U. Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law will be taking their finals online for…reasons?

Making Equity Partner Is Getting Harder: Doesn’t really bode well for morale, huh?