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What's The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral. $1.2 Billion Worth Of 'Are You Sure This Is Legal?': MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state attorneys general came calling. John "Torture Memo" Yoo Invents New Crime To Threaten Administration Critics: John Yoo went on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city's obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu. Judge Requests That Beatings Continue Until Morale Improves: Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues. He is never, ever beating the "he wasn't qualified for this job" rap. The Pile Is Starting To Speak For Itself: DOJ walked into Judge Arun Subramanian's courtroom with grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters and took the judge's offer to withdraw rather than be quashed, and then issued a statement accusing him of overriding "common sense." Twenty-Five Schools Where The Math Actually Works: U.S. News ranked the law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, and BYU leads at 3.41-to-1 with Utah at 1.98 and Temple at 1.91, which is a useful list right up until you notice how far the numbers fall after the top three. One Paragraph Of Law, The Rest Of It Vibes: Ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by July 2, Todd Blanche produced no documents and instead filed a response consisting of a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances. A Bold Confirmation Strategy: Tell The Committee They're Lying: Asked in written questions whether he stood by admitting the slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered "I contest the accuracy of this statement." Then he called Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars. "Ketanji, You Were Very Good. Matt, We'll Talk.": Shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting their undergraduate acting scene, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say "I know that guy" about him.

By Above the Law on July 26, 2026 7:56 pm

What’s The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral.

$1.2 Billion Worth Of ‘Are You Sure This Is Legal?’: MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state attorneys general came calling.

John “Torture Memo” Yoo Invents New Crime To Threaten Administration Critics: John Yoo went on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city’s obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Judge Requests That Beatings Continue Until Morale Improves: Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues. He is never, ever beating the “he wasn’t qualified for this job” rap.

The Pile Is Starting To Speak For Itself: DOJ walked into Judge Arun Subramanian’s courtroom with grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters and took the judge’s offer to withdraw rather than be quashed, and then issued a statement accusing him of overriding “common sense.”

Twenty-Five Schools Where The Math Actually Works: U.S. News ranked the law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, and BYU leads at 3.41-to-1 with Utah at 1.98 and Temple at 1.91, which is a useful list right up until you notice how far the numbers fall after the top three.

One Paragraph Of Law, The Rest Of It Vibes: Ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by July 2, Todd Blanche produced no documents and instead filed a response consisting of a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances.

A Bold Confirmation Strategy: Tell The Committee They’re Lying: Asked in written questions whether he stood by admitting the slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered “I contest the accuracy of this statement.” Then he called Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars.

“Ketanji, You Were Very Good. Matt, We’ll Talk.”: Shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting their undergraduate acting scene, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say “I know that guy” about him.