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Milbank Shocks The Market: Everyone had settled into the old associate pay scale, when Milbank decided to yet again respond to the rise in the cost of living. Scoreboard: Follow all the matching salary moves with this scorecard. That's The Price Of A Checked Bag: Davis Polk's Spirit Airlines bankruptcy filing shows second-year associates billing $1,410 an hour. Send In The Clones: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease built AI "personas" of 19 of its partners so associates can consult a low-resolution map of the partner's brain without bothering the actual partner. You Got Mossed: A federal judge gutted the DOJ's theory that "86 47" reads as a threat, holding in a separate protest case that the phrase is protected speech weeks before James Comey's seashell trial. DOJ Lawyers Either Very Dumb Or Working As Moles: The superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center managed to make the government's already flimsy case even worse. Never Never Land: A federal judge ruled Trump's handpicked board can't rename the Kennedy Center after him and found the president lied about the renovation study, prompting Trump to rage-quit. Calvinball With A Twist: Supreme Court Republicans used the shadow docket to let Alabama install new, racist maps... because they don't want to even try to pen an opinion explaining this one. Regularity Is A Virtue: Supreme Court reform is almost inevitable. The latest installment in this spirited debate explains why term limits are the right answer.

By Above the Law on June 07, 2026 7:35 pm

Milbank Shocks The Market: Everyone had settled into the old associate pay scale, when Milbank decided to yet again respond to the rise in the cost of living.

Scoreboard: Follow all the matching salary moves with this scorecard.

That’s The Price Of A Checked Bag: Davis Polk’s Spirit Airlines bankruptcy filing shows second-year associates billing $1,410 an hour.

Send In The Clones: Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease built AI “personas” of 19 of its partners so associates can consult a low-resolution map of the partner’s brain without bothering the actual partner.

You Got Mossed: A federal judge gutted the DOJ’s theory that “86 47” reads as a threat, holding in a separate protest case that the phrase is protected speech weeks before James Comey’s seashell trial.

DOJ Lawyers Either Very Dumb Or Working As Moles: The superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center managed to make the government’s already flimsy case even worse.

Never Never Land: A federal judge ruled Trump’s handpicked board can’t rename the Kennedy Center after him and found the president lied about the renovation study, prompting Trump to rage-quit.

Calvinball With A Twist: Supreme Court Republicans used the shadow docket to let Alabama install new, racist maps… because they don’t want to even try to pen an opinion explaining this one.

Regularity Is A Virtue: Supreme Court reform is almost inevitable. The latest installment in this spirited debate explains why term limits are the right answer.