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10,000 Federal Lawyers Gone — See Also

We Knew Folks Have Been Jumping Ship, But The Number Is Staggering: The government has been bleeding attorneys since 2025.

Hueston Hennigan Is Paying Out The Big Bucks: Summer bonuses up to $35K!

Aging Out Of Life Tenure: The reasons for giving Supreme Court justices life appointments don't hold up anymore.

Trump Gets The Boot: The Kennedy Center gets its old name back.

Florida Supreme Court Tells You To Check Your Sources: You should have learned this in legal writing!

A Banner Week For Getting Caught Screwing Around — See Generally

If The Chambers Are A-Rockin' Don't Come A-Knockin': A federal district court judge was caught having sex in her chambers with a high-ranking police official and then lying about it. judicial complaint. Her fellow judges issued a private reprimand, scrubbing the report of obviously identifiable material. But the judges didn't realize that AI could decipher that it was Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia within minutes based just on the reports and public internet access.

Department Of Justice Served With Bar Tab: A New York bar complaint targets Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after Chief Judge Waverly Crenshaw found that he orchestrated a presumptively vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. At the same time, more than 120 scholars and former judges reminded the Florida Bar that it previously said that as long as Pam Bondi remained the sitting Attorney General it couldn't investigate ethics charges against her. And, well, she's not anymore.

A Real Dog Of A Case: Houston attorney Steven Swain faces a bestiality charge after his wife's newly installed home-surveillance cameras allegedly caught him with the family dog.

Two Fox Rothschild Attorneys Shot Outside A North Carolina Courthouse: Both lawyers are expected to survive after a pro se plaintiff allegedly opened fire following a contentious hearing.

DOJ Continues To Confuse 'Enforcing Criminal Laws' With 'Weaponization': The DOJ fired four career prosecutors who enforced the FACE Act and then released a Weaponization Working Group report branding their work as biased against criminals that Republicans agree with,

When It Rains, It Pours Sanctions: A Cayman Islands judge concluded that a Quinn Emanuel partner's affidavit was a deliberate attempt to mislead the court, adding to a rough year that already featured a $3 million sanctions order from Judge Edward Chen.

A Hot Bonus Spring: Selendy Gay surprised associates with spring bonuses of up to $25,000, the latest sign that the boutiques are again setting the pace on comp.

Looking For More Experience: For the first time in years, the majority of Biglaw associate hiring happened on the lateral end of the market in 2025, with law student hires sliding to 37.5 percent.

Threats To Judges Apparently Only Count Above A Certain Pay Grade: A swatting attempt at Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home generated headlines, but the documented surge of threats against lower court judges -- 241 against 202 judges in 2026 alone -- keeps getting buried near the bottom of the story.

Working For Trump Is Its Own Form Of Punishment: DLA Piper's Caryn Schechtman signed a brief for Trump in the Central Park Five defamation appeal, joining a long line of lawyers serving a client who already owes a dozen firms $1.6 million.

Bonuses Are In The Air! — See Also

Selendy Gay Springs Money On Their Associates!: This boutique pays out the big bucks!

The Climate Scoreboard Is Out!: See where the biggest names in Biglaw rank on climate work.

Attempted Swatting At Amy Coney Barrett's Home: Dangerous time to be a judge.

Trump Gets Legal Help From DLA Piper: A partner at the firm was hired to defend his comments about the Central Park 5.

Siloed Workers Don't Learn At The Water Cooler: Senior partners can't outsource training new talent to LLMs.

Naming Unnamed Fornicating Judges — See Also

This Is Going To Be The Best AI Sleuthing Story You Read Today: Here's how we figured out Eleanor Ross was the unnamed judge.

Todd Blanche Faces NY Bar Complaint: Vindictive prosecution has consequences. Sometimes.

Patagonia Takes Pattie Gonia To Court: This IP suit is about as far from drab as it gets!

Nice Win, I Guess: Paxton's wife couldn't bother to endorse him.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Pauline Newman's very loud absence and Quinn Emanuel's "deeply disturbing" ethics.

Experience Rewarded — See Also

Firms Are Hiring More Laterals Than Law Students: Killing OCI has its consequences.

Quinn Emanuel Earns Another Benchslap!: If an associate did what the leading partner on the matter did, they'd have been shown the door.

Let's Look At Trump's Settlement Agreement: It looks like he's trying to hide something.

Consider The Alternatives!: These schools do an amazing job of teaching alternative dispute resolution.

Blessed Be No Longer: Pope Leo's announcement on AI could change how professors give exams.

Shots Follow Court Hearing — See Also

Litigant Allegedly Opened Fire On Opposing Counsel: She was charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder.

Look At This Lawyer, Dog; He's Going To Jail: Attorney jailed on bestiality charges.

Churn Baby, Churn: Associate burnout lateraling is real and law firm culture is part of the reason why.

DOJ Targets Prosecutors Who Did Their Jobs: No good deed goes unpunished by this administration.

SCOTUS Term Limits?: A band-aid on a much larger problem, but still worth discussing.

Meta Loses SCOTUS Bid To Evade Suit In Vermont: Prepare to get sued everywhere!

Biglaw Firm Slapped Over ‘Culture Of Lawyering That Is Deeply Disturbing’ — See Generally

Write Your Own Detention Slip: Judge Edward Chen hit Quinn Emanuel with nearly $3 million in sanctions and ordered three of its attorneys to complete an eight-hour ethics course that the firm itself must design.

Devil's Food, Not Bundt Cake: The DOJ indicted a former federal prosecutor for emailing herself the still-secret volume of the Jack Smith report under the file name "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf." Because the administration REALLY doesn't want that report going public.

Stand Down And Stand By Reaches Its Payday: Todd Blanche testifies that he's not ruling out taxpayer funds flowing to pardoned J6 rioter -- one convicted of molesting two children and reportedly promising victims "Trump bucks" for their silence out of $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

Temu Schoolhouse Rock: The Federal Circuit released a civic-education theme song boasting that judges "serve for life to stay independent and fair" -- while it is actively in litigation for locking Judge Pauline Newman out of her courtroom.

Litigation Department Is Fine, Says Litigation Department On Fire: Paul, Weiss has lost even more litigators.

An Improper, Warrantless Breakfast: Judge suppressed evidence in the Luigi Mangione case after finding that Altoona police conducted an improper, warrantless search of his backpack at a McDonald's -- a ruling the press framed as the court "throwing him a bone" rather than the Fourth Amendment doing exactly what it is supposed to do.

$22,500 A Day For A Meme: Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee sheriff who spent 37 days in jail for posting Facebook memes about Charlie Kirk's death, settled his First Amendment suit against Perry County for $835,000 -- proof that the arresting officers might have wanted to skim the Constitution before skipping straight to the cuffs.

Todd Blanche's 'Trump's Personal Lawyer' Shirt Has People Asking A Lot Of Questions Already Answered By His Shirt: Pressed by Senator Van Hollen on his conflict of interest, Blanche responded by yelling that the press should stop calling him Trump's former personal lawyer despite being entirely accurate.

Arraignment Proceeds Without The Defendant -- Or Her Dignity: A 33-year-old woman gave birth on a bench in a Brooklyn arraignment courtroom after being held more than 30 hours on low-level charges, and the system, rather than pausing for the arrival of a human being, simply ran the arraignment without her.

The Looksmaxxer Got Out-Looksmaxxed: Looksmaxxing influencer "Clavicular" took a plea deal for shooting a dead alligator on livestream, but the internet ignored the charge entirely and instead declared that Miami-Dade Judge Marcus Bach-Armas had decisively "mogged" the 20-year-old in his own courtroom.

Smiling Through The Pain — See Also

Paul, Weiss Loses Two More Litigation Partners: They insist everything is still alright.

Sure, Just Let AI Do The Hiring Now I Guess: Revolut's "disruptive" tech adoption is getting ridiculed.

Expensive Internet? Blame The Migrants!: Trump wants to pin broadband cost increases on immigrant fraud.

Biglaw Firm Announces Partner Bonus Pool: Debevoise & Plimpton is swimming in the money!

Another Free Speech Social Media Arrest: This time, Texas police show they don't care about the First Amendment.

Happiness Matters — See Also

The Firms Women Are Happy To Work At: These firms report some of the highest job satisfaction levels!

Young Lawyers Need To Figure Out Timing: Now is the best time to read this advice.

Experts Say Things Are Bad For The Rule Of Law: This should surprise no one. That's part of the problem.

You Can't Just Destroy Official Records: Judge stops Trump from disappearing the evidence.

UC Berkeley Takes A Stand On AI Learning: Huge! How many schools will follow their lead?

DOJ Lawyer Indicted Over Emailing Herself: The Jack Smith report must be terrible!

Quinn Emanuel Learns $3M Ethics Lesson — See Also

"A Culture Of Lawyering That Is Deeply Disturbing": Quinn Emanuel gets sanctioned over repeatedly spreading misleading statements.

Looksmaxxing, Mogging And Banging Gavels: Clavicular's judge humbled the alligator corpse desecrator in more ways than one.

Capitol Police Want Their Share Of The Jan. 6th Slush Fund: The first suit of many!

Susman Godfrey Isn't Afraid Of Diversity: The Biglaw firm continues with their DEI scholarship despite the Administration's bullying.

Thanks, Constitution!: Former Sheriff earns 6 figure settlement after being arrested for social media post.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Another DOJ brief that looks like Trump wrote it and a young associate that knows his stuff.

Biglaw Firm Mourns Veteran Partner — See Also

Quinn Emanuel Honors Harry Olivar: Our condolences to his friends and family.

That's Not The Bragging Point You Think It Is: Todd Blanche reminds everyone Trump owns him.

Not Only A Riot, A Get Rich Scheme!: Check out the $1.8B Jan. 6th slush fund!

Costco Moves To Dismiss Tariff Refund Class Action: There's no guarantee that the tariff refunds will come through anyway.

The ABA Might Actually Matter?!: Empirical data backs the ABA's gatekeeping role.

‘A Profound Moral Failure’ — See Also

Mother Gives Birth On Courtroom Bench: Rather than reschedule, the arraignment went ahead without her being there.

Three Cheers For Due Process: Judge keeps fruit of warrantless search from becoming evidence in Mangione trial.

The New Song And Dance: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's musical number is incredibly tone deaf.

Minnesota Or New Hampshire, What's The Difference?!: These DOJ attorneys could do with a geography primer.

Interested In Public Interest?: These are the school with the best placement numbers!

Trump’s Ballroom Case Gets Loopy — See Generally

They Didn't Cover "Trump" In Legal Writing: The ballroom case briefs continue to sound like a dementia patient wrote them.

Admit It, You've Ordered A "6-3 Decision" This Week: Matt Damon brought his Brett Kavanaugh impersonation back to SNL and brought us an iconic legal drink order.

Insider Trading Case Update: This week, we learned the identity of the Wachtell insider.

James Comey Does The Don Draper Meme : The former FBI Director doesn't think about Todd Blanche at all.

Trust The Associates: Judge applauds Susman Godfrey for giving key argument to junior lawyer.

All Partners Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: Another firm looks to the non-equity partner model.

John Roberts Pulls The Racial Discrimination Panic Button: The Chief thought Alabama's proposed maps were too racist a few years ago. But that was before Republicans faced grim Midterm prospects.

DOJ Launches Attack On Ethics: Government sues D.C. Bar for trying to enforce ethical rules.

Selective Viewing — See Also

Ken Paxton Sets His Sights On Suing Netflix: Less to do with consumer protections and more with handling Trump's enemies.

Davis Polk Is Committed To California: They're looking to build out a full-service office in Southern California!

Practicing Without Competency: Another poorly written DOJ brief looks like Trump penned it.

Context Matters: NetDocuments' new cross-referencing feature makes it much easier to organize and work on projects.

On Exam Day, Bring Your Bible: Utah's new religious freedom law looks like it will be difficult to implement in law exams.

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!