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You Can See The Strings On These Supreme Court Justices — See Also

Trump Reminds ACB And Gorsuch He's The Reason They're On The Bench: Sitting President demands loyalty from the "neutral" branch of the government.

Kevin Hart Isn't The Only One Getting Roasted: James Comey lands sick burn on Todd Blanche.

What A Difference A Couple Years Makes: The gerrymandered maps Chief Justice Roberts said were too racist are fair game now.

The British Are Explaining!: John Oliver gives a deep dive on the shadow docket.

Can Get Some Satisfaction!: These are the firms associates rate the highest!

Report, If You Dare: The DOJ doesn't plan on respecting the freedom of press any longer.

Justice Matt Damon Orders Drinks — See Also

SNL's Brett Kavanaugh Finds 3rd Term Loophole: Don't worry, it’s just a joke. For now.

John Quinn Is Stepping Down: What a difference a year can make!

We Have Another Name: The Wachtell insider trading co-conspirator has been named.

Did You Buy The Dua Lipa TV?: The singer alleges Samsung used her likeness to sell TVs without her permission and she wants millions.

DOJ Forum Shopping To Harrass Trans Kids: The medical privacy of thousands is at stake.

Biglaw’s Inside Job — See Generally

The DOJ's Insider Trading Case Is Basically A Vault 100 Firm Directory: Sidley, Latham, Goodwin, Weil, DLA Piper, Willkie, Wachtell -- this indictment would be for an impressive on-campus interview schedule.

Paul Weiss Technically Isn't Having Layoffs, It's Just That Associates Are Leaving Very Quickly And Not By Choice: The firm keeps losing litigation leadership and now its "performance" reviews have forced out a suspicious number of litigation associates.

A Newly Combined Firm Has Also Embarked On Layoffs: A newly merged top-20 Biglaw firm is working through growing pains that include layoffs, which is what "synergies" always meant in the fine print if anyone had bothered to read past the press release.

In Alito's Defense, The Made-Up Facts He Cited Would Have Been Convincing: The Supreme Court inserted fabricated factual claims into its opinion functionally striking down the Voting Rights Act.

But, Remember, Stop Talking About The Emperor's Lack Of Clothes: Chief Justice Roberts is disappointed that everyone seems to think the Court is political just because they decided to rewrite election law.

Virginia Supreme Court Rules 'Sure, The Text SAYS This Is Legal But What This Opinion Presupposes Is... What If It Didn't?': After Virginia voters approved congressional redistricting, the majority of the state supreme court spent 30 pages redefining one sentence.

Republicans Seem To Get Carded A Lot: Todd Blanche thinks you need ID to go to a restaurant (this guy must really want to start eating at a private club).

Good Things Come In Small (And Midsized) Packages: Vault drops its annual small and midsize firm rankings.

Law Students Create Content That Is More Watchable Than Anything The DOJ Filed This Week: The 17th annual ATL Law Revue Video Contest has a winner.

Biglaw Insider Trading Scheme Gets Even Bigger — See Also

More Biglaw Firm Names Enter The Fold: The former associates weren't making enough money as it was?!

Many Roads To Preventing Fair And Free Elections: Louisiana v. Callais teed up Virginia's Supreme Court to overturn an election.

A Loss And An Explanation: Matt Taibbi loses SLAPP suit, gains our ridicule.

These Small Firms Punch Above Their Weight Class!: These are the small, boutique, and midsize firm worth keeping an eye out for.

NYU Law Dean Steps Down: He plans to return to teaching. Living the dream!

We Have Our Winner: Check out the champion of our 17th Annual Law Revue Video contest!

Decades-Spanning Web Of Insider Trading — See Also

Yale Law Grad Accused Of Facilitating Insider Trading Scheme: Some of the largest M&A practices were taken advantage of.

Taking A Break With The Kardashians: Kim plans to break from bar prepping until 2027.

Calling It What It Is Is The Real Problem: Chief Justice Roberts doesn't like getting called a partisan hack. Even if it is true.

First The Merge, Then The Culling: A&O Sherman is doing more layoffs.

What You Don't Say Matters: Federal judge pushes to sanction lawyer who neglected to mention a defendant's full criminal history.

Dershowitz Keeps Standing Up For Pedophiles: Of his own volition, by the way.

First The Partners, Then The Associates — See Also

Paul, Weiss Associates Are Being Shown The Door: Looks a lot like the first firm to fold to Trump is doing stealth layoffs.

At Least McDermott Was Honest About It: The firm confirms suspected layoffs.

Why Does Biglaw Keep Bleeding Lateral Partners?: Defection is an expensive problem to fix.

Harvard Law Students Support The Union: Hundreds of students and a good chunk of faculty signed their support.

Midsize Is Where It's At!: These are the best midsized law firms to work for!

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: OnlyFans, James Comey, and not caring enough to fix the draft document.

Cast Your Vote!: Two more days to decide the winner of the 17th Annual Law Revue Video Contest!

The Biglaw Second Hundred Firms Are Making Money! — See Also

Average Profits Per Equity Partner Is Up Almost 10%!: See what other changes are happening here.

Justice Alito Blows A Gasket Over Justice Jackson Following The Rules: He won't let accuracy get in the way of his temper tantrum either.

Guilty Verdicts Hurt: Defendant accused of punching his lawyer in the face after an unwelcome verdict.

Former Biglaw Partner Flexes Outcome Independence In Congressional Run: Vote for him! Or not. It's whatever.

Joy Matters: It isn't just for the birds! Make sure it plays a part in your strategy.

Is Good Enough For Epstein Good Enough For Harvard Law? — See Also

Brad Karp Takes His Resume To Harvard Law: The students didn't seem to approve.

That's Not How It Works, Actually: Todd Blanche confuses the voter verification process with eating at Applebee's.

The FTC Wants Tennessee To Join Stupid: Will Tennessee abandon the ABA like Florida and Texas did?

They Don't Realize They're The Bad Guys: DOJ uses Star Wars-themed messaging to recruit troops to the dark side.

And Here Are The Finalists!: Who wins this year's Law Revue? You decide!

Accidentally Filing A Draft Motion Might Be The Least Embarrassing DOJ Story Of The Week — See Generally

Tell Me The DOJ Didn't Check The Filing Without Telling Me: Justice Department files motion complete with giant "DRAFT" watermark on every page. Cracker jack lawyering!

Somehow This Wasn't The Most Racist Legal Story Of The Week: But this Georgetown professor gave it his best effort until the Supreme Court eclipsed him.

Donald Trump Scolds Democrats For Disrespecting The Supreme Court He Just Called A Disgrace: He might not like a Court that strikes down tariffs, but he'll defend to the death a Supreme Court taking voting away from Black people.

DOJ Can't Help But Feed The Conspiracy Theories: Hours after the White House Correspondence Dinner attack, the DOJ put aside the serious task of criminal justice to lean into "false flag" conspiracies by reorienting the response around salvaging Trump's illegal ballroom project. If that wasn't enough, Todd Blanche followed this up in the grand tradition of JFK and Trump's Butler attempt, by inventing a new magic bullet -- suggesting this attacker's bullet vanished into thin air.

Dementia Take The Wheel: The government followed up with a new brief demanding an end to the ballroom lawsuit and it reads as though the lawyers gave Donald Trump final cut.

The Biglaw To OnlyFans Pipeline: A 20-year Skadden veteran bolts for new business cards only slightly more awkward to hand out at bar association events.

Jeopardy Champ's Next Opponent: The DOJ: While Seton Hall law student turned Jeopardy megachamp preps for the Tournament of Champions, he's adding a new battle, taking on intervenor status in the fight in New Jersey's ongoing fight to protect its voter rolls from the Trump DOJ.

The Upper Crust Does Not Appreciate Bottom-Feeders: Todd Blanche is trying to join an exclusive Washington club -- members are not enthusiastic about it.

Shell Game: James Comey indicted over seashell picture.

The Invoice Says $2,000; The Check Says 'Let's Talk': Biglaw's optimistic quarter has some problematic caveats.

Drake Law Saves On Overhead By Eliminating The 'Justice' Part Of 'Justice Clinic': Law school shutters wrongful convictions clinic after a dispute involving a $154,000 estate.

Your Motion To Reconsider Has Been Reconsidered, And The Answer Is Now Worse: A federal judge received the government's motion to reconsider a prior ruling, thought about it carefully, and realized the DOJ had successfully argued itself into a less favorable position.

The Bar Is A Vague Suggestion For Federal Prosecutors Now: Trump's latest U.S. Attorney pick has a thin trial record but an impeccable resume for at least one very specific day in January 2021, which in this administration apparently counts as a distinguished credential.

Trump Wants Hakeem Jeffries To Pull A Sotomayor — See Also

He's Being Told To Apologize For Noticing The Case That Gutted Voting Rights: Very rude of him to be honest, frankly.

Habba Doubles Down On The 86 Gambit On The View: The crowd didn't love her performance.

Voter Privacy Is Under Attack: Jamie Ding is one of the people fighting to protect it.

Will Protest For Employment: You'll never guess where this unqualified U.S. Attorney pick was on Jan. 6th, 2021.

Last Call For Law Revue Submissions!: Show us what you've got in our 17th Annual Law Revue Contest!

Goodbye Skadden, Hello OnlyFans!– See Also

Former Skadden Partner David Eisman Makes A Huge Career Shift: Don't worry -- he'll still be on the legal side of things.

The Biggest In Texas: See if your firm places on this regional prestige list.

Charging Is Easy; The Collecting Is Hard: The most important part of getting paid is the collection cycle.

Drake Law Shuts Down Their Wrongful Convictions Clinic: All over a $154k estate dispute.

Reconsider The Reconsideration: Judge Brown puts the ball back in the DOJ's court.

Dhillon Pays More Attention To Twitter Than The Work Coming Out Of The DOJ — See Also

The Fools Sent Out The Draft Doc: Nobody was awake enough to catch that?

Cool If I Flip The Bird?: Flashing the finger as patriotic duty.

Keep The Hate Outside The Club: Metropolitan Club members want to keep Todd Blanche out.

ABA Folds On Diversity. Again: They settled the Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund issue rather than go to trial.

Chasing Federal Clerkships?: These schools should be on your radar.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Kash Patel's drinking, SPLC accusations, and AI blunders at Sullivan & Cromwell.

Disappearing Bullets At The White House Correspondents’ Dinner — See Also

Did Todd Blanche Really Just Say That?: The best and the brightest can't manage forensics.

...Did Donald Trump Write This?: This DOJ ballroom brief looks a LOT like a Truth Social post.

How Did Obama Get Swept Into This?: Georgetown Law professor tries turning a former president mourning a murdered boy into comedy.

One Hell Of A Streak!: Law student finishes Jeopardy! run with nearly $900k in winnings!

Suspicious Time To Talk About The Ballroom — See Also

No Room For Thoughts And Prayers This Time: Bad White House Correspondents’ Dinner optics fan false flag flames.

Did They Forget Other People Would Read This Email?: What's worse? That a Perkins Coie partner said this or HR's response time?

Inclusion Matters: Vault ranked the best law firms for inclusion!

You're Up, SCOTUS: Judges and former clerks ask the Supreme Court to hear Pauline Newman's case.

Todd Blanche Really Doesn't Want To Talk About The Epstein Files: Shame people keep bringing it up. Like this.

The DOJ’s Week Of Disaster — See Generally

The Streisand Effect Finds Its Spirit Animal: The Atlantic published an article based on multiple insider accounts of Kash Patel's drinking prompting the FBI Director to promise swift legal retaliation. He made good on that pledge with a flimsy $250 million defamation complaint (possibly drafted by AI), that only managed to look weaker the more he talked about it.

DOJ Does A Solid For The KKK: Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director (for the moment...) Kash Patel announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center for its work gathering intelligence on known hate groups. But apparently no one bothered to double-check the charging documents, because the indictment fails to allege a whole element.

S&C's Letter To The Court, Translated: 'Please': Sullivan & Cromwell submitted an emergency filing asking a federal court not to sanction the firm after discovering their filings were riddled with AI hallucinations.

Powell Pwns Pirro: Adding to the DOJ's woes this week, Jeanine Pirro tried to quietly extricate the Justice Department from its phony case against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Freedom Of Religion Means Everyone Is Free To Worship The Way The Fifth Circuit Tells You: The Fifth Circuit embarked on some quirky mental gymnastics to explain why Texas can demand public schools post the Ten Commandments in every classroom is not "establishment of religion."

When The Law Is On Your Side, Pound The Law; When The Facts Are On Your Side, Pound The Facts; When You Have Neither, Pound The Leak: Uncovered memos reveal Chief Justice Roberts's deeply cynical role in inventing the Supreme Court's new hyperactive shadow docket as a policy instrument.

Ranking Law Schools: By buildings, real estate, practical training, and Biglaw job prospects.

Law Professor's Love Letter To Hungarian Authoritarianism: Jonathan Turley is just a Republican talking points pullstring toy at this point, but his lament over the fall of Viktor Orban is conspiracy theory stuff.

It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Partners Are?: Because the lateral market keeps churning, with Paul Weiss losing prominent appellate partner to Davis Polk.

Corporate Clients Memory Hole DEI: Corporate legal departments, which once loudly demanded diversity commitments from outside counsel, are now quietly letting those commitments expire, in what we in the journalism business call "a pattern."

The Federalist Society's Extremely Normal Evening: A Federalist Society event intended to present the legal case for DHS immigration operations as something other than what they are encountered mild friction when the protesters outside declined to pretend otherwise.