Above the Law

You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand It To Chief Justice Roberts

Ditto for Barrett and Gorsuch.

Before We Predict The End Of Lawyers, Let’s Take A Deep Breath

Despite all the hype, in many ways it’s still more or less business as usual.

Shutting Down Was Just The Beginning For This Midsize Firm — Now It’s Time For Bankruptcy

A once-prominent midsize firm moves from dissolution to liquidation in six weeks.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Debt To Society

You owe it to yourself to be consistent.

Legal Ethics Roundup: SCOTUS’s New Recusal Software, Is $9,350 Handbag Gift A Legal Ethics Violation?, IL May Limit Firm Investment, ‘Slaughtering’ Mansfield Rule, Law School Accreditation & More

Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.

What Experts Say About Hims & Hers’ $1.15B Acquisition Of Eucalyptus

Experts say Hims & Hers’ acquisition of Eucalyptus positions the company for global expansion and revenue diversification amid U.S. GLP-1 regulatory challenges.

Morning Docket: 02.23.26

* Law firms gear up to fight for tariff refunds. [Reuters]

* Albany Law student dead after what’s described as a terrorist attack on Hoover Dam. [Syracuse.com]

* Fake law firm and fake courts scammed immigrants. [Guardian]

* ABA takes steps to eliminate its law school diversity standard. Put aside the wisdom of the decision… how long does it take the ABA to vote? Because this has been a headline for at least a year. [Law.com]

* Florida AG gets $100K to teach a two-hour course as an adjunct. Presumably that’s standard compensation at the law school and not at all the naked plundering of public resources. [ABA Journal]

* Todd Blanche fires the legal U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to clear the way for another illegal appointment. [Law360]

* Republicans dusting off the independent state legislature theory. [Democracy Docket]

* Joe joined the Dan Abrams Show to discuss attorney discipline for Trump administration lawyers. [The Dan Abrams Show]

Supreme Court Justices Spend Opinion Sniping At Each Other — See Generally

SCOTUS Justices Spend 170 Pages Airing Office Drama: Supreme Court nukes Trump’s tariffs and treat us to all their petty grievances. Except for Thomas who just wrote some ramblings about the powers of the crown.

Another Biglaw Firm Decides Two’s Company When It Comes To Partnership Tiers: Global giant unveils shiny nonequity track and tweaked lockstep, pushing the single-tier partnership model doomsday clock closer to midnight.

Trump Judge Admits The Constitutional House Is On Fire: If it’s not yet a “constitutional crisis,” it’s rounding third with a head of steam.

DOJ Plays ‘Name The Crime’ And Loses: Trump administration wanted to prosecute Democratic lawmakers but never bothered to figure out a single statute that got broken.

No Facts, Pound The Law. No Law, Pound The Table. No Table, Pound The… Uh Oh: Texas prosecutors argue that a defendant masturbating during testimony wasn’t “inappropriate” if the judge and jury didn’t notice.

Another Am Law 100 Firm Discovers AI Is Not A Lawyer: Major firm accused of filing a hallucination-laced brief. When will this end?

Pentagon Decide Its Lawyers Need To Be Dumber: Defense Department tells future military lawyers that they can no longer attend the best law schools in the country.

Deposition Advice Of The Year Goes To “I’ll F—ing Kill You”: Brevity is the soul of wit and depostion responses.

Judge Declares Mistrial Over Shirt: Lawyer’s civil rights celebration shirt causes judge to cry bias.

Law Professor Arrested On 50 Counts Of Child Sexual Abuse Material: Barry University law professor and interim associate dean arrested in Florida; prosecutors say hundreds of thousands of images were found.

FBI Lied To Seize Georgia Voting Records — See Also

FBI Omitted Crucial Facts To Get What They Wanted: They didn’t let truth get in the way of revenge.

SCOTUS Justices Swing Over How Wrong They Are: Related, Trump’s tariffs were unconstitutional.

Are You Taking The Piss?: Report says judge who allegedly urinated himself during traffic stop had a BAC over 3x the legal limit.

Sometimes A Death Threat Is Just A Good Attorney-Client Relationship: Les Wexner’s lawyer gets caught on a hot mic.

Penn Law Students Taught How To Deal With ICE: Knowing your rights is a big first step!

The President Has A Personal Connection To His Latest Judicial Nominee

Trump is familiar with his lawyering.

Pentagon CTO Says It’s ‘Not Democratic’ For Anthropic To Limit Military Use Of Claude AI

‘What we're not going to do is let any one company dictate a new set of policies above and beyond what Congress has passed,’ Under Secretary Emil Michael said of the ongoing impasse between the Pentagon and Anthropic.

Clients Have Little Bandwidth For Legal Tasks

The clients aren't trying to break your will to live.

How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

Clients And GenAI: Lawyers Better Be Ready To Deal With It

Bottom line: if lawyers aren’t careful, they will face an erosion of trust in the attorney-client relationship as their judgment and advice is substituted for that of AI.

Top Global Biglaw Firm Announces Nonequity Partnership Tier, Expands Lockstep Compensation

Freshfields had an all-equity partnership for all of its existence, but times have changed, and now the firm is changing too.