Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 05.11.26

* Legal shared in this month's decent job report. But if recent history is any guide, expect a downward adjustment in a couple months. [Law360] * David Lat talks to Neal Katyal about the flak the lawyer's faced since his TED Talk. [Original Jurisdiction] * Lawyers getting worried about proliferation of AI notetakers. [NY Times] * Alleged Correspondents' Dinner attacker seeks recusal of DOJ leaders who've spent the last several days publicly talking about being fact witnesses. [ABA Journal] * Law students enrolling early to get around federal loan changes. [Reuters] * DOJ investigating prosecutor for "preferential treatment" of undocumented migrants, which just means "not automatically sending them to black site prisons for jaywalking." [National Law Journal] * Second hundred firms more cautious with their AI spend. [American Lawyer]

By Above the Law on May 11, 2026 9:14 am

* Legal shared in this month’s decent job report. But if recent history is any guide, expect a downward adjustment in a couple months. [Law360]

* David Lat talks to Neal Katyal about the flak the lawyer’s faced since his TED Talk. [Original Jurisdiction]

* Lawyers getting worried about proliferation of AI notetakers. [NY Times]

* Alleged Correspondents’ Dinner attacker seeks recusal of DOJ leaders who’ve spent the last several days publicly talking about being fact witnesses. [ABA Journal]

* Law students enrolling early to get around federal loan changes. [Reuters]

* DOJ investigating prosecutor for “preferential treatment” of undocumented migrants, which just means “not automatically sending them to black site prisons for jaywalking.” [National Law Journal]

* Second hundred firms more cautious with their AI spend. [American Lawyer]