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Choosing Between Money And The Right Thing — See Also

Biglaw Associate Quits With Dramatic Flair: Strong commitment to morals underneath all of the cog metaphors.

Did You Hear About The Paul Weiss Partner Event?: It might not have been about the Order, but the whole thing was a PR nightmare — you’ll love it!

Doug Emhoff Isn’t Happy With Willkie Farr: He would have preferred their name be on a different part of our Spine Index.

Guess He Didn’t Inherit Everything: Prince William causes stir overseas by choosing his own law firm to work with.

Jeffrey Williams Beats The Prosecution Again!: Glad Judge Whitaker has some common sense.

Crafting The Next-Gen Legal Community With Robert Hanna

In a world where technology evolves faster than ever, building networks of trust and collaboration has never been more crucial.

Small Firms Should Advertise To Real Potential Clients, Not To Other Lawyers Or Their Own Egos

If you are focusing your marketing efforts on piling up legal industry awards, you are probably advertising more to other law firms than to the general public.

Legal Ethics Roundup: Biden Disbarment, TX May End ABA Oversight, Ethics Of Zealous Advocacy, $100M Judicial Election, 3 New EO Threats, Fed Misconduct Survey, Jobs, & More

Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.

The Real A.C.B.

Data and analysis bring clarity to the question of whether Barrett is the weak link on a conservatively dominated Court.

What’s The Over/Under On How Long Trump’s Tariffs Will Remain?

Who are you going to believe -- Trump administration officials or your own lying eyes?

4 Notable Health Tech Funding Announcements In March

Health tech companies made several major funding announcements in March. Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds.

Morning Docket: 04.07.25

* Are the Biglaw settlements legally enforceable? Obviously not, but that's not really the point of bribes. [American Lawyer]

* Hundreds of law firms signed onto the amicus brief in the Perkins Coie case... with a lot of notable absences. [Law360]

* Attorney General won't dismiss possibility of third Trump term. [Newsweek]

* DOJ places attorneys on leave when they wouldn't lie to the court. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Texas investigating Kellogg over breakfast cereal health claims. Also Texas has a massive measles outbreak brought on by vaccination skepticism pushed by its elected officials for years. [Reuters]

* Doug Emhoff blindsided by his firm's capitulation. [CNN]

* Obama sends "I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" vibes toward surrendering law firms. [Washington Post]

Biglaw Badge Of Dishonor Ranking — See Also

Profiles In Cowardice: Above the Law unveils its Biglaw Spine Index following firm responses to threats to the rule of law.

Show Me The Money: Attorneys wonder about firm finances as raises and bonuses get delayed.

Bro, Do You Even Have A Law Degree?: JD Vance flexed his J.D. from Yale. Yale Law probably wishes he hadn't since he was wrong about every substantive issue.

Law Students Strike Back: A law school group told Skadden not to waste its breath trying to recruit after its surrender to the Trump administration.

Law Professors Too: Academics join authoritarianism fight with new amicus brief.

Bar Exam Blues: February bar scores hit new low.

Robots And The Justice Gap: What can AI do for those denied legal help?

Say Hello To The ATL Spine Index! — See Also

It Is Hard To Keep Up With Each New Biglaw Capitulator On Your Own: Did your firm show Trump its belly? Find out using this tracker!

Kirkland Is Waving The White Flag: They probably could have stayed under the radar if they didn’t bring attention to themselves.

Members of UVA Law’s Faculty Are Speaking Up: They join the many voices yelling at the Trump administration.

Things Are So Bad, Libertarians Are Making Cogent Arguments: Read analysis on this once in a blue moon good Rand Paul take.

We’ve Got Your In On In-House: These are the Biglaw firms in-house recommends.

The Biglaw Firm That Provides The Best Training To Be An Actual Lawyer

Law school doesn't *really* prepare you to be a lawyer.

‘It Will Set Us Back Multiple Decades’: Why Public Health Experts Are Panicking About The HHS Overhaul

HHS underwent a sweeping restructuring this week, resulting in about 10,000 layoffs across various agencies. With critical programs for things like disease prevention and outbreak response already crumbling, experts believe the fallout from this decision could set public health efforts back by decades.

Stat(s) Of The Week: Judicial Elections

Is Wisconsin an outlier? How many other states let voters decide who sits on their highest court?

The Battle For The Heart Of The First Amendment Is Heating Up 

There could be some major changes to First Amendment jurisprudence.

Is It Really ‘Unfair To Criticize’ Biglaw Firms That Cut Deals With The Trump Administration?

There were, after all, other viable options that several firms have chosen to take.