DOJ Has A Cool New Way To Demoralize The Attorneys It Has Left Working For It: Mandatory case quotas. Read The Opinion… No, Not Like That: Amy Coney Barrett tells Congress that the Supreme Court doesn’t really care about explaining itself all the time. Law School Doesn’t Need To Be A Debt Sentence: These schools […]
Benchslapped By His Own Petard: Judge nixes Trump v. IRS settlement citing administration's unitary executive nonsense.
Todd Blanche Loses Lindsey Graham: Contentious confirmation hearing set to begin this week will have to go ahead without Lindsey Graham after the senator died over the weekend (perhaps he'll be dealing with Graham's sister, who has been tapped to fill out his term).
Yale Law Lost The Top Spot In The 2026 U.S. News Rankings: And the school's placement is even worse in this projected version of the 2027 ranking.
But Yale Law Students Still Hold Moral High Ground: Even if USNWR doesn't celebrate the school, the students are out here standing up for the rule of law.
Curb Your Billable Hours: Latham partner nails speaking role on Larry David's new show.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing Twice And Expecting...: Trump wants the same Supreme Court that just rejected his birthright citizenship order to rehear the whole thing "immediately." And he decided to insult them in the process.
Grievance Studies: A conservative watchdog group filed a bar complaint against Roberta Kaplan as Trump keeps trying to wriggle out of paying the nearly $5.8 million he owes E. Jean Carroll.
The House Always Wins: A member of Congress wants John Roberts to explain what exactly stops justices and clerks from betting real money on Kalshi about cases that only they know the outcome of.
The Unexamined Laptop Is Not Worth Using: The University of Chicago is yanking laptops out of 1L classrooms and leaning back into the Socratic method as its answer to the AI era.
Prestige Without Borders: Harvard edges out Yale and Stanford atop the Quacquarelli Symonds global law school rankings, because the rest of the world grades on a different curve than U.S. News.
The Red Line Bob Giuffra Drew For Himself Didn't Last: Sullivan & Cromwell said it would never touch the Carroll cases... Sullivan & Cromwell is now touching the Carroll cases.
Law School Laptop Ban: Chicago wants to get ahead of AI and decided banning laptops from classrooms was the way to do it.
What Is Biglaw Waiting For?: Just announce raises already. Associates are tired of this waiting game.
Trump's Supreme Court Redo Requests: Twice in one week, Trump has suggested the Supreme Court give him another shot despite nothing having changed.
Small Law Success: Smaller law firms are doing better on collections, but AI isn't saving them any time yet.
Discovery Really Is The Best Part Of Litigation: ABA wants the deets on the Trump Biglaw executive orders.
The World's Best Law Schools: Of course the USA features prominently on this ranking.
CSI Agentic: Exterro releases an agentic AI tool for forensics. Courts will take a while to come to grips with this.
Born To Lose: Donald Trump asks Supreme Court for big favor by calling them insane.
Doesn't Reviewing 6 Months Of Time Entries Sound Fun?!?! Pour some out for legacy Cadwalader attorneys.
Ken Paxton Heal Thyself: Or at least get your voter registration issues in order before going after others.
You, Sir, Have The Boorish Manners Of A Yalie!: Yale Law School is trying to convince the university that settling with Donald Trump has literally never worked in the history of ever.
You'll Never Guess Which Law Schools Have The Lowest Acceptance Rates: Okay, fine, you will, but two T14 schools didn't make the cut.
Emil Bove Is Le Fou With A Lifetime Appointment: Judge keeps Trump on his phone's lock screen because no one's slick as Donald, no one's quick as Donald, no one's ass is as incredibly thick as Donald's!
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
SCOTUS Betting On Its Own Cases? It shouldn't be this hard for Chief Justice Roberts to answer this one.
More People Come Out Against Todd Blanche's nomination for the Attorney General Role: But what the Senate does with that information is up to the Senate.
The Trump Administration May Be Making It More Difficult To Do Pro Bono Work: But these Biglaw firms managed to crack the code to help others.
Blanked: Blank Rome hit with a couple lawsuits over data breach caused by trusting a fake IT call.
Roberta Kaplan Wants Her Client To Get Paid: Trump's legal goons, on the other hand, are trying more delay tactics.
World Cup Of Lawyerball: The United States dragged the soccer world into its national pastime -- legal threats.
You'd Have To Be High To Buy Elon Musk's Legal Arguments: And Judge Charles Breyer was not, refusing the billionaire's request to blow off the fraud verdict against him.
Environmental Law Isn't Just For Tree-Huggers: Check out the law schools that make the latest Honor Roll here.
Kasowitz Sued: Former clients accuse Kasowitz of pocketing lion's share of settlement.
Roberts Writes Two Opinions With One Shrug Emoji: The Chief Justice declared independent federal agencies unconstitutional and then turned around and, without a note of irony, said that OF COURSE the Federal Reseve is a duly ordained independent federal agency because... [trails off].
Sam Alito Has Not Retired: NPR accidentally published Nina Totenberg's pre-written Alito retirement piece, creating a 10 minute fire drill. But when all was said and done, Sam Alito continues to let his freak flag fly at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Sets Another Low Point: New poll finds that only 22% of registered voters have "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of faith in the Supreme Court. Even 47% of Republicans say the Court needs stronger oversight.
We're All Looking For The Guy Who Did This: Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb called Trump's $1 billion crypto haul "the greatest onslaught of corruption in the history of mankind."
Second Circuit Judge Collects Second Reprimand: Judge Sarah Merriam has been scolded a the second time for creating a "tense and challenging" work environment.
The Firms Clients Love, Or At Least Will Call Back: BTI Consulting released its annual ranking of the 113 law firms that in-house counsel love most.
The Supreme Court's Politics Are Becoming A Big Problem: And Americans are catching on.
Compensation Decisions Don't Wait Around For Biglaw: Boutiques are taking over when it comes to paying their people.
Imagine What America's Semiquincentennial Could Have Been: America's 250th anniversary would have been so much better in this alternate universe.
Vacationing at Blackacre: Checking out the vrbo reviews of some lawyerly lairs.
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
In-House Counsel May Love Your Law Firm: But is it one of the "Best of the Best"? Find out here.
Neil Gorsuch: Agent Of Chaos: The justice's dissent in the birthright citizenship case managed to undermine the Trump administration's whole strategy.
Norton Rose Raises Salaries: Most of Biglaw is still sleeping on associate compensation.
Ty Cobb Has *Thoughts* On Donald Trump's Crypto Haul: None of it good.
Reports Of Samuel Alito's Retirement Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: A lil' oopsie from NPR.
Small firms, big money: Raises and bonuses going around.
No Holds Barred Take On Attorney General Nominee Todd Blanche: Sheldon Whitehouse is *not* a fan.
Citations At The Root Of AI Hallucinations? When lawyers can't easily track down a case cite, AI runs wild.
Second Circuit Judge Gets Disciplined: Again.
Stop Hitting Your (Former) Self: The NRA will be suing the 1791 Foundation in three courts!
John Roberts Is Not As Clever As He Thinks He Is: Releasing two contradictory opinions at the same time is what happens when hubris meets madness meets being a shameless hack.
SCOTUS Justices Take Shots At A Free Press: Guess who? Hint -- it isn't Sotomayor or Jackson.
An Ounce Of Prevention...: The NY Bar calls for clearer emergency protocol.
Hope You're Ready For The PACER Shakedown: Your favorite court records site is bumping up the costs.
Legal AI Is Getting Better: Unfortunately, the progress is a little difficult to put into words.
Bringing Out The A-Team!: These firms are at the top of client service.
Sam Alito Huffed That He Totally Could've Made Better Arguments (Spoiler: He Could Not Have): Alito broke protocol at the Supreme Court this week to whine from the bench that Sotomayor's dissent made him look bad for gutting Holocaust-era asylum protections in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado.
Everybody Loves Living By The Sword Until The Sword Turns Around: While star partners are hauling in packages approaching $40 million, consultants estimate that 10 to 30 percent of partners are heading into mid-year reviews with a pay cut coming, because lockstep's replacement is a system that concentrates rewards at the top and somebody has to be at the bottom.
Ben Sasse Is Either Totally Oblivious Or The Funniest Man Alive: The former senator argues that adding cameras might make the Supreme Court seem political.
Stan Woodward Sends Judge Strongly Worded Note; The Judge Sends Back Scheduling Order: Stan Woodward, the DOJ's go-to signature for its most embarassing filings, sent a two-page "notice" informing Judge Leonie Brinkema that her recent order was "unnecessary." She was not amused.
The Faintest Praise Money Can't Buy: Bill Barr wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing that Todd Blanche should be confirmed as AG because he "will run the department as effectively as anyone could under President Trump."
The Swamp Is Real And It's At The Lincoln Memorial: Trump spent millions of taxpayer dollars painting the Reflecting Pool blue, and now Jeanine Pirro's Justice Department is arresting citizens for the president's pool maintenance failures.
Trump's Favorite Law Firm Loves A Pay Raise: Sullivan & Cromwell -- Donald Trump's preferred law firm these days -- has apparently matched the new Milbank salary scale.
The Machine Had The Right Answer; The Court Had The Law: An AI transcript accidentally rendered a defendant's ambiguous "Do I need to have an attorney here?" as a clear invocation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel, but the judge decided it wasn't THAT clear and evaporated the defendant's Miranda rights.
The Law Review Article That Made Me Chuckle (Once, Then Twice When He Explained The Joke): A Vermont Law Review article argues that humor improves legal pedagogy and retention, is itself funny enough to prove the thesis, and then undermines its own credibility by following two of its better jokes with "See what I did there?" -- which is, somewhat poetically, a lesson in why timing matters.
Sullivan & Crowell Raises Associate Salaries: Probably to the Milbank scale.
Brendan Carr Wants To Crack Down On "The View": Wasn't a problem over the last 26 years.
Is This Satire? If only: Ben Sasse's creed against SCOTUS cameras is dead serious.
Hostage Negotiations: Bill Barr wants Todd Blanche confirmed. Or Else.
$10K AI Error: New York Appellate court issues sanctions after fake cites and holdings.