Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.14.26

* DLA Piper prevails in former associate's pregnancy discrimination case. [New York Law Journal] * Perkins Coie and Ashurst partners approve merger. [Bloomberg Law News] * Client AI use could drive up legal fees. [Financial Times] * Anthropic GC predicts that AI will finally defeat the billable hour. [Corporate Counsel] * Biglaw tax lawyer pursues Guinness record by completing marathon dressed as Captain Underpants. [Legal Cheek] * D.C. Circuit tells government they've got some 'splaining to do about how the FTC's probe into Media Matters amounts to anything but a political attack. [Law360] * Court tosses Trump's defamation suit against Wall Street Journal. [Reuters]

By Above the Law on April 14, 2026 8:55 am

* DLA Piper prevails in former associate’s pregnancy discrimination case. [New York Law Journal]

* Perkins Coie and Ashurst partners approve merger. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Client AI use could drive up legal fees. [Financial Times]

* Anthropic GC predicts that AI will finally defeat the billable hour. [Corporate Counsel]

* Biglaw tax lawyer pursues Guinness record by completing marathon dressed as Captain Underpants. [Legal Cheek]

* D.C. Circuit tells government they’ve got some ‘splaining to do about how the FTC’s probe into Media Matters amounts to anything but a political attack. [Law360]

* Court tosses Trump’s defamation suit against Wall Street Journal. [Reuters]