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Birthdays Come And Go, But Billable Hours Are Forever — See Generally

Biglaw Partner Drops Future Therapy Fodder: Asked how she juggles being a working mom, a newly minted partner offered a refreshingly horrifying answer: sometimes you miss your own kid's birthday party.

The AI Pipeline Crisis Nobody Wants To Talk About: AI won't replace lawyers, but it might create a critical shortage of good ones.

Major Regional Firm Calling It Quits: Atlanta's Taylor Duma is shutting down after 21 years, given "the influx of firms into the Atlanta market."

One Law Firm Commits To Doing Something About Broken Recruiting Model: Susman Godfrey is done trying to fight over recruits who haven't even finished their first set of exams.

Former Attorney Generals... They're Just Like Us!: Bill Barr spotted in a 3-hour TSA line at Houston's IAH, courtesy of the president he sacrificed his reputation for.

Trump Says His Own Supreme Court Appointees "Sicken" Him: Girl, same.

My Cousin Vinny Somehow Managed To Get More Realistic Through The Studio Revision Process: In a fun exercise, Litera used the draft screenplays from My Cousin Vinny to show off its document comparison tool and AI assistant.

Jay Clayton's SDNY Throws ICE Under The Nearest Available Bus: Clayton's office informed the court that they've been accidentally lying to judges for months and it's all ICE's fault.

ATL March Madness Bracket Enters The Elite Eight: Voting continues through Monday to decide the Trump lawyer most deserving of their eventual disbarment.

Where The Head Goes The Body Follows — See Also

Midsize Firm Closes After Partners Leave: Taylor Duma closes for good this month.

Is This It For Section 230?: Does the design/content distinction unfairly punish websites for their user's faults?

Judge Throws Out White Student's Discrimination Suit Against Howard: Maybe he'll appeal next February.

Is Your Firm "A Breeding Ground For Misconduct?": This workplace harassment lawsuit accuses White & Case of being just that.

Harvard Law Students Push School To Divest From ICE: That includes the tech giants and law firms that allegedly work with ICE.

Justices Barrett And Gorsuch Have Fallen Out Of Favor — See Also

Trump Nominateith, Trump Complaineth When He Doesn't Get His Way: Trump got big mad at his justices at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner.

And Then There Were Eight: Which of these lawyers is most in need of a disbarment?

Michael Flynn Grabs 'Em By The Treasury: To the tune of $1.25M.

Litigant Swears Up And Down She Isn't Zooming In From Behind The Wheel: The live footage suggests otherwise.

Jay Clayton’s SDNY Throws ICE Under The Bus: Credibility still matters.

Susman Godfrey Ditches Giving 1Ls Exploding Offers — See Also

Proper Evaluation Takes Time: The firm has enough sense to not force 1Ls to rush their careers.

Bill Barred From Executive Privilege At Airport: Stand in line like everybody else!

You Can't Juggle It All: Biglaw partner shares refreshingly honest story about work/life balance.

$50K For A Public Interest Summer?: Biglaw stipends are bleeding over into non-Biglaw positions.

My Cousin Litera: This will be the coolest use of comparative legal AI you've seen in a while.

This Week On Thinking Like A Lawyer: Afroman's huge win and Elon's big loss.

The Results Are In! — See Also

The Biggest Losers Of Our Disbar March Madness: Jeanine Pirro and Kash Patel were neck and neck!

$35 Never Felt So Good!: Chance the Rapper wins lawsuit against Pat the Manager.

There's More To Lose Than Money: The legal industry's coverage of the Iran War is more focused on loss of profit than loss of life.

Sometimes The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play: Top SEC enforcer walks.

Was The Selfie Worth It?: Partner sanctioned $1100 over courtroom selfie.

Real Journalism Is Back! — See Also

Judge Strikes Down Pentagon's Free Press Squashing Policy: The American public will be better off for it!

AI Is Being Trained On Law: But who is training the lawyers? Lateraling good talent can only work for so long.

Morgan Lewis Picks Their Next Leader: Congratulations to David McManus on the new role!

The Verdict Is In: Jury finds Elon Musk defrauded Twitter shareholders in his 2022 purchase of the bird app.

What If We’re Just Mad This March? — See Generally

ATL Bracket: Which Of These Ghouls Should Get Disbarred First? There are still a few hours left to vote in our annual March anger bracket. Which Trump lawyer's ethically fraught work most warrants disciplinary inquiry. We have 4 regions worth of matchups... here, here, here, and here.

Back In The Day, Megafirms Cut Local Back Office Staff, Moving It All Offsite... AI Now Comes For Those Jobs: The jobs that were once cheaper in Tampa are now a lot cheaper with Claude.

Judge Calls Out NJ US Attorney's Office For Three-Raccoons-In-A-Trench-Coat Management Style: Who is actually running the NJ US Attorney's Office? Because the Trump DOJ's inability to do anything right is starting to risk putting child predators back on the streets. I mean... other than the ones in the redacted Epstein files.

Todd Blanche Still Laser Focused On Covering Up For Pedophiles: The Deputy AG seems to take a personal interest in blocking anything that might reveal Epstein's accomplices.

Weil Gotshal Names First Female Executive Partner: Ramona Nee will become Weil's first woman to hold the executive partner title in firm's history.

Trump Rage-Posts 1,000 Words About The Supreme Court At 11 PM On A Sunday: With a war in Iran, a China-Taiwan standoff, and DHS in shutdown, the president still found time for a meandering rant about the Court he packed.

Because I Got Sued (Because I Got Sued): Afroman mocked the cops who wrongfully raided his house... so they sued him for hurting their feelings.

Another Day, More Brackets! — See Also

Which Trump Administration Attorney Most Deserves To Lose Their License?: Vote on the winner (?) of the John Eastman region!

But Wait, There's More!: Vote on the biggest loser in the Stephen Miller region!

Going To Law School With Advocacy In Mind?: These schools should be on your radar!

The Executive Order Fight Heads To The D.C. Circuit: No way this will backfire in the government's face!

U.S. District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Against RFK Jr.: Turns out the vaccine schedule changes are reviewable!

It Isn’t March Madness Without A Bracket! — See Also

Which Trump Administration Lawyers Should Lose Their License The Hardest?: Here's your explanation on the regions.

And Here's Where You Cast Your Vote!: Who should be the biggest loser in the Giuliani division?

George W. Bush Appointed Judge Reminds Trump The White House Isn't His House: He also has no time for the "alteration" excuse.

Total Victory For Afroman!: The most ridiculous trial of the year came through with the right verdict!

Biglaw Partner Teaches AI Class At Columbia Law: That sounds way more interesting than contracts!

DOJ Lawyer Gets Tossed Out Of Courtroom — See Also

Showing Up Unannounced Is One Thing, But Speaking?: Supervisory AUSA Mark Coyne gets shown the door.

Will Someone Please Think Of The Aggressors!: Raiding officers want millions from musician who hurt their feelings.

Another Break In The Glass Ceiling: Weil Gotshal & Manges announces their first female executive partner!

Here Would Be The Epstein Files: If not for Todd Blanche!

Does That Supercar Have The Proper License?: California is cracking down.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: AI hallucinations, lazy lawyering and the fallout of swinging dicks.

Open Offices And Talent Acquisition — See Also

Reed Smith Opens A New Office And Grabs Talent From Other Firms: Yoink! Yoink!

VanDyke Supporters Are Cracking Out Philosophy To Defend Him: Much easier to call the guy dumb and move on.

Read This Before That Law Review Submission: Taking legal scholarship seriously is a step-by-step process.

Did You Catch Trump's Supreme Court Meltdown?: This Truth Social rant makes you wonder if he needs to do another round of testing.

Amazing Name, Even Better Service: RealityCheck catches AI hallucinations in legal briefs!

Judge Kaplan Is On Karen Duty: Did SBF's mom leave a voicemail for the judge?

No Experience? No Problem!: DOJ drops experience requirements to keep the dumpster fire going.

There Goes The Tampa Office — See Also

Baker McKenzie Scales Back Even Further: Restructuring has its consequences.

Jeanine Pirro Does It Live!: Catch up on her meltdown here.

Judge Newman Petitions The Supreme Court: Will they affirm her dissenting opinion once again?

Is The Better Place In The Room With Us?: John Lauro's take on the DOJ is hard to believe.

AI Costs Human Lawyer His Job… Just Not The Way The Tech People Expected — See Generally

AI-Brained AUSA Falls On His Sword... I Wonder If That Was Also ChatGPT's Advice: Federal prosecutor who filed AI-hallucinations -- and then made misleading statements about how they got there -- resigned rather than force a judge to decide whether his entire office should share the sanctions.

DOJ Argues Biglaw Cowardice Proves Its Orders Are Legal: After briefly pretending it would stop defending Trump's Biglaw executive orders, DOJ is back in appellate court and arguing that the orders are legal because so many other law firms did NOT challenge the orders.

Ninth Circuit Judges Beg Colleague To Act Like A Grown-Up: Judge Lawrence VanDyke opted for crude trolling in a trans discrimination dissent, prompting colleagues to issue judicial plea for the unqualified judge to display basic professionalism.

Sidley Joins The 'Partner, But Not Like That' Club: Another firm adopts an income partner tier, as old guard attorneys continue building moats around their equity.

Law Student's 'End Political Violence' Flyers Earn Discipline... Earning Law School A Legal Threat: A Campbell Law student put up Charlie Kirk flyers with the message "End Political Violence," and the school pulled them down with a warning. Now they've got some explaining to do before ending up in court.

UNM Law Hits The Scholarship Jackpot: A $4.5 million donation from alumni Eric and Dana Marie Knapp will fund full-ride scholarships for ten UNM law students over 30 years, up from one every three years.

DLA Piper Makes A Verein Important Decision: The massive law firm is ditching its Swiss verein structure in favor of a unified profit pool.

Leave ‘Swinging Dicks’ Out Of Dissents — See Also

Van Dyke's Dissent Makes Everyone Else Immature By Association: Why didn't more judges call out his shenanigans?

4th Circuit Upholds Gender Discrimination Against Adults: Skrmetti was just the beginning.

Student Makes Charlie Kirk Flyer Removal A Free Speech Issue: Campbell Law has a chance to update their policies. Will that resolve the issue?

Be On The Lookout For Fake Attorneys: Here are the signs.

Another Nonequity Tier Debut! — See Also

Sidley Austin Takes The Nonequity Plunge: Welcome to the fold, "Partner"!

DLA Piper Abandons The Verein Structure: Will other firms adopt the move?

From Calling It Quits To Running For Office!: Former DOJ attorney Julie Le is running for Congress.

Costco Customers Fight For Savings!: There's a class action suit for customers to get their share of the potential tariff refund.