What sank him wasn't his rulings. It was his years as a law professor.
His idea of rest and relaxation involves the Internal Revenue Code.
Judge Talwani reviewed the final rule, just like the shadow docket ordered — and found it just as unconstitutional as before.
Yale Law Cool Kids’ Chat: JD and Usha Vance’s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple’s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty.
Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really Change: Luigi Mangione hopes to turn federal guilty plea to stalking into double jeopardy protection against murder charges. It shouldn’t succeed, but nothing about 2026 makes sense.
Ice Miller’s Raises On Layaway: Ice Miller matched the market salary scale for its New York associates, then decided they can wait until January 2027 to actually see the money.
Endless Shrimp, Meet Endless Billables: Paul, Weiss, Quinn Emanuel, and Proskauer are reportedly holding early talks with private equity investors despite already sitting on some of the fattest profit margins in Biglaw.
Eat What You Kill, Round Three: Litigation boutique Reid Collins & Tsai is handing out its third bonus round of 2026, pushing associates’ total bonus compensation for the year as high as $170,000.
SPLC Left With Chicken-And-Egg Problem: A federal judge in Alabama rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center’s vindictive-prosecution claim against DOJ, ruling the group needed more evidence of prosecutorial animus. Oh, and the judge ruled out allowing the SPLC to see that evidence.
Navarro Wants The Guy Who Convicted Him Fired For Convicting Him: White House adviser Peter Navarro used a livestream on Steve Bannon’s show to demand that DC’s top federal prosecutor fire the career attorney who helped put Navarro in prison for contempt of Congress.
Nicole Kidman Discovers The NDA Drawer: Paramount+ has ordered Discretion, an eight-episode legal thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning about a summer associate who uncovers the NDAs her firm’s most powerful partner used to bury a dark truth.
Pirro Reaches For Nuclear Grand Jury Option: Facing Trump’s fury over a botched prosecution, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury and put a crony who once ran a dance photography studio in charge of politically sensitive cases.
Blame The Bot Strategy Fails: An NLRB judge refused to credit an auto parts company’s claim that ChatGPT invented the line in its own termination paperwork admitting it illegally fired an employee for discussing pay.
Double Jeopardy Mushroom: The DOJ works out interstate stalking plea deal with Luigi Mangione so his lawyers can claim New York murder charges amount to double jeopardy.
Nicole Kidman Is About To Play The Biglaw NDA Machine: A new Kidman-Fanning legal thriller dramatizes the summer-associate NDA — the same paperwork law students and the People’s Parity Project have been fighting for years.
‘Psst. Hey AI, Rule In My Favor, Don’t Tell The Judge. Thx, Bye’: Litigant tries to prompt inject the court to rule in his favor and the court is not pleased.
Supreme Court Reform Just Went From Punchline To House Democratic Platform: The ‘conservative right-wing majority,’ Hakeem Jeffries says, is ‘basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.’
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Removed for bribery, then handed a vote on everyone else's impeachment.
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Declining revenue has the ABA looking for ways to streamline an organizational structure that hasn’t been overhauled in decades.
'Discretion' comes from a novelist who spent a decade in corporate practice negotiating hundreds of NDAs a year.
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DOJ and Mangione team conspire to give Luigi elusive 'Double Jeopardy Mushroom' power up.
This is bad... but the fact that we're worried about it signals something way worse.
Labor Day is coming, but for the most part Biglaw associate raises still... aren't.
Ask yourself: why *not* me?
He called the conservative majority on the Court 'basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.'
From the what-free-speech? dept
The week in appellate news.
* Judge threatens DOJ with contempt in Epstein files coverup case. [All Rise News]
* Holland & Knight brings in former partner to defend against $1.2B malpractice case. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Litigant hides prompt injection in court filing asking the court’s AI to rule favorably. Sure it’s an attempt to deceive the court but… if they aren’t turning over decision making to bots then it shouldn’t matter, right? [404 Media]
* Luigi reportedly considering plea deal. [Reuters]
* Trump sued over $100K/month “early access” feature. [NPR]
* Antisemitism case against Harvard booted out of court. [Law360]
* Federal judge blocks attempt to use the Voting Rights Act to get rid of majority-Black judicial districts. [Mississippi Today]
* California joins effort to block administration policy of blocking student visas over speech. [California AG’s Office]
