SCOTUS Shadow Docket Hands Trump His Mail-In Ballot Wish, And Justice Jackson Is Having None Of It
'Catch-me-if-you-can,' the Court's newest addition to election law.
Legal Budgeting In The New Normal
How forward-looking GCs can rethink their budgets.
3 Brand-Maintaining Tips For In-House Counsel
These tips, if executed consistently, can help you maintain your brand with less brain drain and stress.
Providers Will Likely Face More Lawsuits Against Vaccine Mandates. But They Are Also More Likely To Win.
Providers' legal defense against lawsuits aiming to tear down vaccine mandates is wide-ranging, from making the argument that allowing an unvaccinated worker into their facilities could pose a direct threat to the worker to invoking a 1905 precedent set by the Supreme Court.
Biglaw Firm Announces One-Time Only Bonuses For Counsel And Senior Attorneys
A Biglaw firm actually remembers its counsel in this year of big bonuses.
Morning Docket: 08.05.21
* Lawyers alleging an election conspiracy dropped a complaint so bad they had to pay opposing counsel’s attorney fees. Ha. [ABA Journal]
* Illinois Governor puts a stop to immigrant detention. That’s ill. [Jurist]
* Teacher for a career that makes its money arguing is adamantly against being vaccinated. This is why nobody likes lawyers. [Reuters]
* Mask Free, Died Hard: Anti-vaxxer politician dies of COVID. [Business Insider]
* Biden is gassed up over electric cars. 2030, baby! [CNN]
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected].