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Federal Judges Getting Tired Of John Roberts Throwing Them Under The Bus — See Generally

Federal Judges Finally Say What Everyone’s Been Yelling At Their Screens: Trial judges share concern that SCOTUS is more interested in staying on the Chirstmas card list of the January 6 mob than protecting judges from threats.

Amy Coney Barrett’s “Aw Shucks” Routine Eligible For SAG Card: Anyone buying the self-serving "just an honest broker making tough choices" schtick Amy Coney Barrett is laying on should contact us about a bridge we're selling.

Trump’s Fantasy G.I. Joe Project Gets Court-Martialed: Judge reminds ex-president that deploying mall cops with rifles isn’t covered by Article II.

Comensation Moves Still Few And Far Between: Better than no news at all.

Future Lawyers Realize They Don’t Need $500K Debt To Be Miserable: Law school tuition bubble bursts as schools realize students have cheaper ways to cry in the shower.

Law School Cockroach Takeover: At least the new “adjuncts” don’t charge $40K a semester to lecture about Pennoyer.

Jury Reaches Donna Adelson Verdict, In Latest Turn In True Crime Saga: The wheels turn slowly, but they turn.

Fed Courts Have Had It With SCOTUS — See Also

Maybe They Do Police Their Own: A judge called the ramp up in shadow docket usage “inexcusable.”

Verdict Reached In Donna Adelson Case: Guilty.

Will Work For Mentorship: COVID consequences make it harder to find mentorship in Biglaw.

Texting While Lawyering?: Some sound advice on how to communicate with clients via SMS.

Embracing Transparency, FDA Will Make All Future Drug Rejection Letters Public

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said publishing complete response letters recognizes public interest in the transparency and credibility of agency decision-making about drugs.

Leveraging CLEs For Networking And Client Development

With the right approach, your CLE can be a strategic tool.

Lawyers Should Never Go Down Without A Fight

Lawyers have an obligation to diligently represent clients.

NetDocuments Judge Analytics App: Mining For Gold

This new AI tool searches your firm's database to extract information about judges your lawyers have appeared before, pulling out useful intelligence.

Stop Random Acts Of Marketing And Start Getting Clients 

How you can replace guesswork with intentional, scalable strategy, on this 'Be That Lawyer' podcast.

How AI Should Replace My In-House Law Job

Here are three ways legal executives should work to increase AI adoption among their teams.

In A Bold Move, Federal Judges Are Calling Out The Supreme Court’s Bullsh*t

The judges are 'sounding the alarm' over Supreme Court's overuse of the shadow docket. Somebody *had* to say it.

How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

Judge Mehta’s Google Antitrust Remedies: Threading The Needle Between Overkill And Underkill

From the surprisingly-reasonable,-but-still-messy dept.

Morning Docket: 09.05.25

* Man who wishes we had a new term for attempted rape wishes we had new term for "shadow docket." [Bloomberg Law News]

* The law isn't an "opinion poll" says woman plugging a book where she literally says that constitutional rights should turn on whether they enjoy "broad public support." [CBS News]

* In a shock to no one with a brain, the Trump surrendering Biglaw firms are suffering with midlevel approval. [American Lawyer]

* DOJ Acting Deputy Chief says on hidden camera that the administration moved Ghislaine Maxwell to keep her quiet. But he wants you to know it was just to impress an au pair from Georgetown he picked up on an online dating app. I don't know if people know what this whole Epstein case is about, but... [X]

* Judge calls Neil Gorsuch's shadow docket aside "unhelpful and unnecessary." [MSNBC]

* UVA Law School... come get your boy. [The Independent]

Milbank Has Been Matched! — See Also

Law Firm Matches Milbank And Raises Salaries: Bet you wish you worked here!

Court Cracks Down On Military Police Takeover: Gotta love the rule of law!

Harvard Just Landed A Yuge Legal Victory: Billions in federal funding!

Lobbyist Defends Firms Capitulating To Trump: An argument was made. Not particularly strong, but there is one.

Donald Trump Really Gets Those Numbers Up: He’s the reason so many are applying to law school.

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Non-Equity Partnership Isn’t A Fast Track To The Equity Tier

All Biglaw 'partners' are not created (or paid) equal.