Above the Law

Takes A Lot Of Stones To Accuse James Comey Of Threatening The President Over This — See Also

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!

Seems Like Law Firm Co-Workers Actually Care

Caring about your colleagues’ mental health lends itself to cameraderie!

Policies On Billing For Attorney Travel Time

It's best to be sure both sides are starting from the same point.

Mindshift: The Inner Work Of Sustainable Self-Care

Before you can build habits that truly support your well-being, you have to change how you think about yourself, your time, and your needs.

Stat(s) Of The Week: Get Up, Stand Up

ATL readers weigh in on Trump's war on Biglaw.

John Morgan Of Morgan & Morgan On Blueprints for Organizational Transformation 

The famed plaintiffs attorney discusses the business of law on the latest 'Be That Lawyer' podcast.

Getting Real About Being A Divorce Lawyer

When family law chooses you.

The Competitive Advantages AI Brings To Litigation Firms

This episode of 'Adventures in Legal Tech' explores the adoption trajectory, pitfalls, and interplay with human expertise.

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]

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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Partner Paydays Are WAY Up At This Biglaw Firm

Partners at the firm must be very happy!

DOJ’s New Biglaw ‘Conflict’ Policy: A Masterclass in Retaliation Theater

Oh no! We can't work do civil collection work anymore?

Anonymous FedSoc Snitches Needed For Super-Awesome Gossip-Based Lawsuit Against Law Review!

Jonathan Mitchell and FASORP target another law review.

If Trump Is Immune, So Is The WI Judge The DOJ Just Arrested

Her kink is karma.