Above the Law

What’s The Office Policy? It Depends — See Also

Four Days For Some: DLA Piper’s corporate associates will have to spend an extra day at the office.

Make America Great No More?: Former MAGA attorney Roger Alford goes full HPE/Juniper merger truther.

AI Adoption Is Hitting Top Tier Law Schools: Somebody has to teach future attorneys how to proof their work!

What’s In A Name, Anyway?: AffiniPay changes their name to 8AM.

Notes From The Technosphere: Musings on AI hallucinations and pirates fresh from ILTACON!

How The One Big Beautiful Bill Changes Retirement Planning For Lawyers

These changes create new opportunities for tax-efficient retirement planning, but they also require careful consideration of timing and strategy.

Will AI Really Move The Needle On The Billable Hour?

The billable hour is more embedded, especially in Biglaw, than most realize.

You Need To Maintain Relationships Throughout Your Legal Career To Succeed

What words of wisdom do you wish someone gave you when you graduated law school?

Elite Law Schools Are Offering Classes On Responsible AI Use

Gotta put the guardrails on early!

3 Questions For A Law Firm Marketing Professional (Part I)

The confidential nature of the work done by IP attorneys adds complexity to marketing their achievements.

Top Biglaw Firm Increases Its Office Attendance Mandate To Four Days — But Only For Corporate Associates

Will this new four-day requirement spread to other practice groups?

Mining For DOGE: Defense Budget Docs Show $11B In ‘Efficiencies,’ But What Are They?

An analysis by AEI conducted in partnership with Breaking Defense scoured thousands of pages of fiscal 2026 Pentagon budget documents, some of the most definitive accounting yet for DOGE’s impact at the DOD.

Morning Docket: 08.19.25

* DLA Piper bringing everyone back to the office 4 days a week, leaving attorneys an extra day of the week to schedule all their interviews.[American Lawyer]

* White House sending its social media teams with on FBI arrests. “Yo, it’s ya boy Steve, here at the qualified immunity channel…” [Reuters]

* Alina Habba is legally the U.S. Attorney of New Jersey according to Alina Habba. [Law360]

* Judge slims down Ozempic suit. [Legal Intelligencer]

* Paul Weiss and Reed Smith accused of multimillion dollar coverup. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Newsmax coughs up $67 million for lying about the 2020 election. [NPR]

* Fifth Circuit resuscitates student group’s lawsuit against college over banning drag show citing First Amendment, thus overturning Kacsmaryk opinion that had been based on… vibes. [Courthouse News Service]

Show Up Or Pay For It — See Also

Do Your Time Or Do A Fine: Biglaw firms are penalizing attorneys for not showing face.

Trump’s D.C. Police Takeover Has Failed: For now, at least.

Did Your Firm Just Implement A Vague 2400 Hours Target?: King & Spalding just did, and associates are pissed!

That Isn’t The “Test Hacking” I Thought You Meant!: Chinese hackers apparently tried to cheat the test.

The California Bar Has Two Options: More of the same? Or much needed changes?

Breaking Down Who’s On Top At The Supreme Court

This justice is used to being in dissent.

Is Donald Trump Anointed By God?

How long will it take, do you suppose, for evangelicals to apologize for having spouted this nonsense?

Corporate Clients Are Pushing Back Even More On Biglaw’s High Rates

When things are ‘wildly unpredictable,’ in-house counsel will ‘think harder about how they spend every dollar.’

China’s Hacking Operation Apparently Came For The LSAT

Turns out the hacking threat we needed to worry about was getting into the T14.

Biglaw Firm Adds Onerous Billable Target That Has Everyone Freaking Out

Tipsters are pretty pissed off.