Above the Law

Just Go Along With It Or Else — See Also

The DOJ’s Might Makes Right Biglaw EO Argument Isn’t Very Persuasive: They’re shaming lower courts for not bowing to presidential authority, legitimate or not.

That Did Not Please The Court: Judge shames Lisa Hsiao for “reckless disregard for the duty of candor owed to a federal court.”

Holding The Accountability Accountable: DOJ sues D.C. Bar for doing its job of holding lawyers to ethical rules.

Judge Orders Former Executive Director To Return Over $1M To Nonprofit: The money was earmarked for housing generally, not his house specifically.

Gotta Get A Government Gig: These law schools have great government job placements!

The Trump Administration’s Best Argument For Its Biglaw EOs Is That You Just Have To Trust The President

National security is the magic word for this administration.

DOJ Gets Nuked By RI Judge For ‘Appalling’ Lack Of Candor

Benchnuked???

The Law Schools Where The Most Graduates Got Government Jobs (Class Of 2025)

These law schools may help you land the government job you’ve been dreaming of.

Meet LOIS: The AI That Will Change How You Practice Law

What does the future of legal work look like? Let LOIS show you how.

Exterro’s Subpoena Manager: Start With A Pain Point, Find A Solution, Rinse And Repeat

The things Subpoena Manager does are primarily administrative functions at which AI does well.

Anthropic Goes All-In On Legal, Releasing More Than 20 Connectors And 12 Practice-Area Plugins For Claude

Anthropic took its biggest step yet into the legal market, linking Claude to the software that law firms and legal departments run on.

How Healthcare Leaders Are Reacting To The White House’s Proposed Fertility Benefit Rule

Healthcare leaders are divided over the Trump administration’s proposed rule to expand employer-sponsored fertility benefits.

Morning Docket: 05.14.26

* The DOJ takes the fight against law firms that refused to bow to Trump’s intimidation campaign to the appellate court. [National Law Journal]

* Federal judge has concerns over SEC’s sweetheart Elon Musk settlement. [Reuters]

* DOJ sues D.C. Bar for seeking professional discipline against Trump allied lawyers. There’s a reason… they understand bar discipline is coming for them all and they want to get a head start in intimidating licensing authorities to stay out of it. [NY Times]

* Private equity firms are unhappy with lawyer rates. Boo hoo. [Financial Times]

* Anthropic bid to become the legal industry’s AI front door and now it’s up to the rest of the tech industry to figure out how to react. [Legaltech News]

* Judge McElroy absolutely lets the DOJ have it in attempt to subpoena hospital records of trans patients. [Boston Globe]

Another Firm, Another Nonequity Partner Tier — See Also

Will A&O Shearman Be The Next Big Name To Adopt The Tier?: Sure looks like it!

One Hell Of A Campaign: George Conway is running on impeaching Trump.

New To The Game And True To It: Judge gives Susman Godfrey and a young associate, Dylan Salzman, respect for knocking it out of the park.

DLA Piper Faces Discrimination Suit From Fired Palestinian Lawyer: She was fired 26 days after disclosing she was Palestinian.

A ‘Hurricane’ Of Legal Fees: Jury finds Ye liable in copyright infringement sampling case.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Alito didn’t even bother to fact check his arguments and we talk layoffs.

Not Sure In-House Counsel Are Really Up On That Whole ‘Compliance’ Thing

It's not 'a little bit pregnant,' but it's not great.

CLOC Opening Keynote: What If You Could Automate Everything?

What to leave out of the automated tasks goes to the heart of what’s bedeviling legal in general and legal ops in particular. Or should be.

At 40, I Just Finished My 10th Marathon, So I Challenge JD Vance, 41, To Get Off The Couch And Run His First

A 26.2-mile marathon is a mere 17,292 couches placed end to end.

They Stole My Identity To Run An Executive Job Scam. Here’s What Every Professional Needs To Know.

Job scamming is a multimillion-dollar 'industry.'

Less Chair, More Chill: John Quinn Set To Discover The Joys Of Not Being In Charge At Quinn Emanuel

The former executive chair at the firm will be free to travel -- and still do work, of course.