Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 04.29.25

* Pro Bono Payola: Capitulating firms will be tasked with defending police from excessive force claims. Exactly as they planned, no doubt. [White House] * An account of Susman Godfrey's decision to fight back. [Business Insider] * Government begins probe of Harvard Law Review over article selection. [Bloomberg Law News] * DOJ attacks Mansfield Rule. Obviously. [American Lawyer] * Immigration lawyers being told to self-deport despite, you know, being American citizens. [ABA Journal] * America's economy more or less hangs on the Supreme Court. [Reuters] * Supreme Court gets testy with Lisa Blatt when she accuses opposing counsel of lying. [Law360]

By Above the Law on April 29, 2025 9:04 am

* Pro Bono Payola: Capitulating firms will be tasked with defending police from excessive force claims. Exactly as they planned, no doubt. [White House]

* An account of Susman Godfrey’s decision to fight back. [Business Insider]

* Government begins probe of Harvard Law Review over article selection. [Bloomberg Law News]

* DOJ attacks Mansfield Rule. Obviously. [American Lawyer]

* Immigration lawyers being told to self-deport despite, you know, being American citizens. [ABA Journal]

* America’s economy more or less hangs on the Supreme Court. [Reuters]

* Supreme Court gets testy with Lisa Blatt when she accuses opposing counsel of lying. [Law360]