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The Explosive Look Inside Paul, Weiss — See Also

The Man Now Running Paul, Weiss Reportedly Didn't Want A Trans Partner Working On His Clients: Before Scott Barshay took the corner office, he allegedly decided Lex Korberg was bad for business.

Upon Further Reflection...: Jeanine Pirro declined to further imperil her law license by pushing the insane Reflecting Pool theory. It's probably going to cost her the job.

Should Boris Epshteyn Approve Paul, Weiss's Website? A Firm Actually Discussed It: Plus a dropped Pentagon client and a lawsuit the firm talked itself out of -- inside the NYT's account of a firm that stopped being its own master.

Pretending This Slush Fund Order Is Real Is An Insidious Form Of Gullible: Sens. Cornyn and Tillis got their written commitment but we've seen this movie before.

Attention Moot Court All-Stars: Check out the top 10 best schools for moot court here.

Bar Exam Meltdown And Summer Bonuses — See Generally

Yakima, We Have A Problem: Washington scrapped its entire July NextGen administration after a convention center hardware failure left roughly 645 applicants unable to log in, offering them a tentative September makeup date, a transfer to February 2027, or a refund.

The NCBE Disaster Is A Reminder: Everyone mocked California's attempt to develop its own bar exam, but across the country the supposed "experts" didn't do better.

Maryland Wins By Losing Least: One Maryland site went down for under an hour before applicants finished day one on schedule, which by the standards of this week's rollout qualifies as a triumph.

Milbank Doesn't Need A Permission Slip: For the third straight year, Milbank opened summer bonus season without waiting on Cravath, handing associates and special counsel between $6,000 and $25,000 depending on class year, payable by August 31.

The Most Expensive Bench In Central Park: Gibson Dunn pulled six litigation partners out of Wachtell, including executive committee co-chair William Savitt, and the seventh name on the list quietly vanished from the deal after a TikTok caught him making out with an associate.

IMMEDIATELY, Adverb, Meaning Never: Trump announced on Truth Social that he would seek rehearing of his 6-3 birthright citizenship loss in Trump v. Barbara, and then let the 25-day window under Rule 44 close without filing a thing.

Todd Blanche Is Doomed Because Of Todd Blanche: Senate Judiciary postponed Todd Blanche's confirmation vote because Cornyn and Tillis want written assurances that Blanche refuses to provide.

Pardon Me?: Anthony Fauci's pardon theoretically prevents him from invoking the Fifth but the caselaw never contemplated a bad faith investigation.

The Biglaw Love Shack — See Also

If The Office Is A Rockin': It seems as though everyone at Wachtell was hooking up.

Anti-DEI Group Is Coming For The Biglaw Pipeline: They’ve filed suit against Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and 14 Biglaw firms.

Broken Clocks: Elon Musk brings a valid challenge to overbroad legislation.

Wondering Where Your Raises And Special Bonuses Are? If Biglaw firms weren't waiting for Cravath, you'd have more money already.

Todd Blanche Is In Trouble — See Also

Todd Blanche Still Won't Write Down The Promises He Swore To: It's getting weird, tbh.

Fifth Amendment Right Against... What?: Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment even though his pardon should make self-incrimination impossible. But it's a side effect of the rise of bad faith actors.

And Donald Trump Is Considering Betting Big On The Midterms: No, not on Kalshi (though, maybe, who knows) but with his AG nominee.

Spicy: Louisiana Supreme Court forcibly recuses their own Chief.

America's Thirstiest Judge: Judge James Ho has a long record of defending birthright citizenship. He's ready to denounce it all for a little bit of attention.

Supreme Unpopularity: Approval ratings for SCOTUS reach a historic low.

Temple's First Football Jersey Patch Sponsor Is A Personal Injury Firm: Grungo Law joins the corporate company of SoFi, FedEx, and JPMorganChase.

The Bar Exam That Went So Horribly Wrong The Whole Thing Got Canceled — See Also

The NCBE Called It A 'Historic Milestone.' Washington Canceled It. The state pulled the plug on the entire exam rather than trust the tech again.

What About Diploma Privilege? The question answers itself after Washington torched an entire bar exam — and it's the same fix the state has used in the past.

The Hubris Of The Gods: The NCBE's supporters mercilessly attacked California for trying its own exam. What happened with the NCBE exam in Missouri brings us full circle.

A Mini Disaster: Maryland bar examinees only had to freak out for an hour. Not so bad, comparatively.

Park Bench Smooch Turns Costly: Apparently the partner in the infamous viral video was about to bolt for a payday at Gibson Dunn, but he got left behind.

Sullivan & Cromwell's Civil War Just Got A Signature On It: Bob Giuffra's name is on the Supreme Court petition in the one case he told partners the firm would not touch.

More Summer Bonus Action — See Also

Another Day, Another Summer Bonus: Yet another firm is rewarding its associates with more money.

The Biggest Sharks In Biglaw: But which law schools do all of these sharks come from? Find out here.

Tell Us Your Bar Exam Horror Story: Poop, births, fires, tsunamis, ExamSoft -- we've heard it all, and we're ready for more.

If Todd Blanche Won't Commit To His Own Sworn Testimony In Writing, What Is His Word Worth? Two GOP senators on the Judiciary Committee want to know with the vote looming Thursday.

When We Compared Federal Judges To Murderers, We Didn't Mean Any Disrespect: DHS general counsel borrows the agency's "worst of the worst" branding for violent criminals it finds and applies it to federal judges, upping the threat level even more.

Paper Tiger: Donald Trump promised not to give up on the birthright citizenship fight. He gave up.

Milbank Is Paying Their Associates Even More Money — See Also

More Milbank Money: Up to $25K in special bonuses for associates and counsel. Is any firm willing to match without Cravath's permission?

What's Your Sign? This lawyer zodiac breakdown will leave you laughing.

Teaching Professional Responsibility As Cautionary Example: FIU has a new interim dean. He just got slapped with a sanction from the federal court down the street.

Wachtell Owns The Internet: Not in a way that the firm would probably like.

When 'Prestigious' Becomes A Warning Label: Law students are passing on the DOJ Honors Program, and their deans understand exactly why.

Hawley And Schmitt Didn't Ask The DOJ Witness About Todd Blanche. They Did Rage-Bait Their Followers Into Sending Her Death Threats: Elizabeth Oyer spent 13 years as the DOJ's pardon attorney... she's been getting death threats since last week.

Partner-Associate Park Passion Predicament — See Generally

What's The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral.

$1.2 Billion Worth Of 'Are You Sure This Is Legal?': MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state attorneys general came calling.

John "Torture Memo" Yoo Invents New Crime To Threaten Administration Critics: John Yoo went on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city's obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.

Judge Requests That Beatings Continue Until Morale Improves: Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues. He is never, ever beating the "he wasn't qualified for this job" rap.

The Pile Is Starting To Speak For Itself: DOJ walked into Judge Arun Subramanian's courtroom with grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters and took the judge's offer to withdraw rather than be quashed, and then issued a statement accusing him of overriding "common sense."

Twenty-Five Schools Where The Math Actually Works: U.S. News ranked the law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, and BYU leads at 3.41-to-1 with Utah at 1.98 and Temple at 1.91, which is a useful list right up until you notice how far the numbers fall after the top three.

One Paragraph Of Law, The Rest Of It Vibes: Ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by July 2, Todd Blanche produced no documents and instead filed a response consisting of a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances.

A Bold Confirmation Strategy: Tell The Committee They're Lying: Asked in written questions whether he stood by admitting the slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered "I contest the accuracy of this statement." Then he called Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars.

"Ketanji, You Were Very Good. Matt, We'll Talk.": Shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting their undergraduate acting scene, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say "I know that guy" about him.

Partner And Associate, Sittin’ In A Tree — See Also

Always Be Billing: A Biglaw partner and associate got caught making out by an obnoxious social media video.

I Consider Experience Experience: Guy posts his performance reviews from WilmerHale 15 years ago on his LinkedIn profile.

A Transatlantic Merger Can Do Wonders For Your Finances: HSF Kramer is showing off $2.4B revenue after a year.

DOJ Loses Subpoena Fight, Attacks Judge, Describes Itself As 'Meticulous': Department of Justice forced to withdraw their subpoenas of New York Times journalists.

How To Fail The California Bar And Still Come Out Ahead: Kim Kardashian's legal career is still pending, but her energy drink is already going viral.

Elena Kagan Doesn't Get It: The justice who spent a term calling out the majority's blatant overreach is now publicly telling the country everything is fine.

Todd Blanche Can’t Admit The Slush Fund Was A Mistake Because ‘That’s Not Proper MAGA Talk’ — See Also

Liar, Liar: Todd Blanche's unique confirmation strategy.

Stop Waiting For Cravath: Biglaw firms don't need permission anymore. It's time to make your money moves.

That's A Pretty Big Malpractice Claim You've Got There: Holland & Knight facing $1.2B lawsuit.

Robot Criminals Are Here: OpenAI's models escaped a secure environment and started hacking a website. That's illegal for humans, but what do we do with a bot?

When You Run Out Of Law, Reach For ‘Absurd’ — See Also

DOJ Files Childish Brief, Begs Judge Not To Take Its Allowance: The $1,000 a day fine Todd Blanche would really like to avoid.

Heartbreaking: DOJ Lawyers Used To Have To Follow Ethics Rules: While the current DOJ argues that government lawyers should be immune from professional responsibility, over 500 former Justice Department attorneys filed a brief explaining that they never had issues serving the government ethically.

So Much For Nothing To Hide: House Oversight threatens Alan Dershowitz with subpoena after the professor abruptly canceled scheduled testimony.

Hitting The Willkie Button: Willkie Farr and OpenAI partner to build AI system... and how this relates the the firm's deal with the Trump administration.

Can Your Salary Cover Your Debt? These law schools have the best salary-to-debt ratios.

Same Supreme Court Term Limits Bill, Much Worse Supreme Court: Senate Dems are back with SCOTUS reforms... and so is the record-low confidence that keeps making their case for them.

This Judge Is Just Begging For A Benchslap — See Also

Judge VanDyke Has Taken To Asking The Supreme Court For Favors: Of the benchslap variety.

Full Metal Briefing: Todd Blanche feared DOJ would get "skullfucked" by the courts.

The Tortured Logic Of John Yoo: Yoo tells Fox News that the DOJ should probe Zohran Mamdani for thought crime, which is as scary as it is buffonish.

No Merger, No Problem: Linklaters is doing just fine when it comes to revenue, thank you very much.

The Process Is The Process: Generative AI is all over the legal industry, but when it comes to discovery, process beats technology.

Congress Has Some Pointed Questions For Skadden: Will they answer? Probably not! But that won't necessarily make the problem go away.

Supreme Court Takes Up Case Of Most Expensive Six-Pack Of Bud Light Ever — See Also

Just ‘Plane’ Wrong: Alaska wants to take a man's $95,000 plane because he didn't notice a passenger bringing a six-pack of Bud on board. By the state's reasoning, it's perfectly reasonable that it's only a $1,500 fine, but a $95,000 forfeiture.

The Trump Administration Has A Theory About Who Shouldn't Be Litigating The Biglaw EO Case: It argues Susman Godfrey is conflicted out of the case.

Send In The Clowns: Trump brings DOJ into his lawsuit against the BBC after the news organization refuses to just give him money to go away. Because why not spend taxpayer resources to pursue his own flagging lawsuit?

Constitution As Suicide Pact Alert: Fifth Circuit considering blowing up 99 percent of federal law to help a trafficker keep his gun.

Law Student Takes Jeopardy! By Storm: He's made nearly $350K so far, which is an awesome run.

Bad News Out Of Biglaw — See Generally

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff -- accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm.

U.S. Attorney's Fifty-Four Minutes Of Fame: Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, cleared out for the same first-assistant shell game that keeps rendering indictments worthless.

Crystal-Balling The Next Rankings Circus: Pepperdine's Paul Caron ran the ABA numbers to project the 2027 U.S. News law school rankings, and the suspense is whether Yale -- knocked out of the top spot for the first time ever this year -- can claw its way back.

Unitary Executive Theory Steps On A Rake: After successfully getting the Supreme Court to bless the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does -- except the Fed -- a federal judge cited that right back to him over his attempt to sue the federal government to give himself a sweeping release and his cronies a slush fund.

Always Be Charging: The Department of Justice has told all 93 U.S. Attorney's offices that every line prosecutor must keep at least 25 open matters at all times.

No Honor Among Capitulators: The DOJ hit all nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump's executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epshteyn and dragging in the very firm leaders who signed the $940 million in deals to avoid this in the first place.

Welcome To The Gaslight District: Legal scholars reviewing Kathryn Ruemmler's closed-door House Oversight testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it "classic gaslighting."

Speaking Of Gaslighting: Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to "read the opinion" before judging the Court, informed Congress that it is inappropriate to expect the justices to actually explain their shadow-docket opinions.

Recuse Me While The Whole Bench Bails: Lawsuit to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming dean of Kentucky Law over faculty objections kicked upstairs after every judge acknowledged a conflict in a case against their colleague.

DOJ Remains Dullest Tools In The Shed — See Also

The DOJ Gabs About Its Biglaw Subpoenas: I don't think it'll work out the way they planned it in their head.

House Oversight Caught With Their Pants Down: Alan "Underpants" Dershowitz cancels Monday Epstein interview at the last minute.

Holding The Powerful... Not Accountable At All: Amid mounting court findings of DOJ misrepresentations, a federal court in Michigan calls out the government for an AI hallucination designed to keep a man locked up. No sanctions.

Trump's Called In An FBI Forensics Team: The Reflecting Pool saga takes [more] of an absurdist turn.

It's Getting Hot In Here: So stop your billables! Hogan Lovells Cadwalader lawyers get to work remotely thanks to a broken A/C.