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Seashellgate: Trumpworld Sees Comey’s Day At The Beach As Criminal Assassination Threat — See Also

Work From Home? That Was So 2024: Sidley only gave a week’s notice before ordering folks back.

Above The Law In The New York Times: Normally this newsletter is about Above the Law stories of the week, but let’s make an exception for this Times feature on ATL.

Hold These Shells Up To Your Ear And You Can Hear Kash Patel Being Insane: Former FBI Director’s beach pic inspires administration conspiracy theorists to see Manchurian Clamshell scenario.

Young Lawyers Speaking Up; Law Firm Leaders Hit “Mute” And Turn Up Kid Rock: Lawyers, in particular minority lawyers, feel expendable as firms side with Trump.

Lawyers Of Arabia: Kirkland Chair Jon Ballis leveraged firm’s collaboration with Donald Trump into a spot on the Saudi Arabia trip.

Diversity Initiatives? Never Heard Of ‘Em: Firm removes diversity billing codes… and if it’s not billable it’s not happening.

Judicial Campaigning (Contains 0% Real Content): Broward County judge in trouble for campaigning on AI deepfake video.

What’s Worse Than One Congressional Investigation? Two! Senator Whitehouse launches probe into the nine Biglaw firms that capitulated to Donald Trump.

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Comey’s “Cool Shell Formation” Has Kash Patel Phoning In The SS: His abbreviation, not mine.

These Firms Are Really LinkedIn: Is your firm on the top of its social media game?

You Can Do A Lot When You Misread The Supreme Court!: Missouri’s AG misreads court opinion to over-police social media.

John Morgan Of Morgan & Morgan Talks About Law Firm Scaling: Here’s some advice for the people!

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Morning Docket: 05.16.25

* There’s an appetite at the Supreme Court to get rid of universal injunctions, but after brutal oral argument, birthright citizenship might not be the case where they pull the trigger. [Law360]

* Giving Jeanine Pirro a temporary appointment after riding Ed Martin’s doomed interim run tests temporary appointment power that should give the district court the power to fill that job temporarily. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Biglaw efforts to surrender or fight hinged upon their willingness to act collectively. [Law.com]

* Latham caught in the AI hallucination trap. [Reuters]

* ICE misled a federal judge into issuing a warrant and this should be lesson eleventy billion that judges need to be a lot more suspicious of warrants casually dumped on their desks. [The Intercept]

* Now they’ve dragged Taylor Swift into the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni debacle. [Newsweek]

* Following all the attention of the Conclave, the ABA Journal offers a brief guide to canon law. [ABA Journal]

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The 4 Day In-Person Mandate Is Coming — See Also

A Top 10 Firm Expects Associates To Be In The Office "At Least" 4 Days A Week: Is the 5th day implied?

DOJ Gets All Retaliatory: Because chilling law firms from opposing the administration is the point.

Wrong Place, Right Time To Get Suspended: Broward County judge suspended for his inappropriate courtroom jokes.

Law Professor Faced With Practical Problem After Ethical Oopsie: Will they have to write a new exam after the accidental leak?

Time For Another California Bar Screw-Up Story: Turns out they didn't even grade all of the tests correctly!

You'll Never Guess Why Harvard Law's Copy Of The Magna Carta Is So Good: It’s because it was real the whole time!

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