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Partnerships, Legal Education, Marriages… Lawyers Were Destroying Everything Last Week — See Generally

Another Biglaw Single-Tier Partnership Falls: The path to upward mobility got a little narrower.

Florida And Texas Take Over Legal Education From The ABA: Both states have made abundantly clear that their schools are headed for a dumpster fire.

Supreme Court Hacked, Which Tracks: America’s highest court might want to consider changing its password to something harder than "12345."

Former Senator Turned Biglaw Lawyer Sued For Ruining A Marriage: The complaint reads less like a legal dispute and more like a prestige HBO drama. Well... STARZ drama anyway..

Former Biglaw Associate Who Refused To Bend The Knee Earns Top Honor: Above the Law readers select lawyer who chose principle over prestige as 2025 Lawyer of the Year.

Lindsey Halligan Responds To Illegal Appointment Allegations By Doubling Down: Trump’s most loyal lawyer insists the problem isn’t the law -- it’s everyone insisting on following it.

New Law School Rises From The Ashes Of A Prior Disaster: Hopefully this time is different.

Former Biglaw Partner Charged With Murder: The profession confronts a grim reminder that elite credentials are not character references.

Law School Arms Students With Anti-ICE Hotline: As federal enforcement escalates, one institution decides protecting students matters more than staying quiet.

Law Firm Earns Coal Right Before Christmas — See Also

Leave The Trick Or Treating For Halloween: Firm tries to teach the importance of cybersecurity by tricking their associates.

Florida Newest State To Break From ABA: Only 48 states remain under the weight of the ABA's unenforced diversity requirements.

Welcome, Dean! Goodbye, Dean!: The culture war claims the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's newest dean hire's job.

United States Threatens UK Over Investigating America's CSAM Bot: We're the only ones that can ban foreign apps!

Beveridge & Diamond Mourns The Loss Of Albert Beveridge III: We send our condolences to the firm, family and friends.

Lawyer Of The Year Stays In Good Trouble — See Also

Rachel Cohen Keeps Pushing Against Authoritarianism: Somebody has to take these 10-year-old phone thieves to task.

Bonus Dollars And A Nonequity Partner Track: Check out Sullivan & Cromwell's new bonus program!

Who Needs TV When You Can Read Complaints?: Kyrsten Sinema sued for alienation of affection.

Time To Make GenAI Competency Mandatory?: It's a bold opinion for bold times.

UMaine Law School Preps Community Against ICE: Know your rights and stay safe!

Hacked Database To Match Their Hack Opinions — See Also

The Supreme Court's Online Security Is Trash: Tennessee man accused of hacking SCOTUS 25 times in a two-month span.

Former Biglaw Partner Accused Of Murder: The former Duane Morris partner is accused of killing his wife.

California To Investigate xAI Over Pornographic Deepfakes: One of the main witnesses? Grok.

Following The Rules Is Bias Now?: Plaintiff gets accused of false citations and gets mad at the (accurate) call out.

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Third Amendment time???

Not One Super Bonus, But Two! — See Also

Pillsbury Associates Are Eating This Bonus Season!: You can go back for a 4th plate of cash if you've worked hard enough!

Lindsey Halligan Doubles Down On Her U.S. Attorney Acting Role: Asked to justify themselves, the DOJ threw a temper tantrum.

Not All Money Is Earned The Right Way: Former attorney pleads guilty to defrauding clients out of over $4M.

It Really Is A Boston Market!: Haynes & Boone opens their office doors in Boston.

Charlotte Gets Another Change To Make Good: Elon University plans to open on the Queens University of Charlotte campus.

Associated With Excellence — See Also

Rachel Cohen Is Above The Law's Lawyer Of The Year!: What will 2026 bring?

No Fraud Behind The Gavel: Judge resigns after fraud charges.

Since When Is Jerome Powell Leading The Resistance?: DOJ opens criminal probe because he didn't lower interest rates like Trump wanted.

Kristi Noem Wants ICE Above Inspection: She wants you to give notice a week in advance before any oversight happens.

The New Year Is A Time For Endings — See Generally

Midsize Law Firm Begins New Year By Closing: Firm's resolution appears to have been to shed all its offices.

Judge Ho Trades Common Decency For Chance To Suck Up To Trump: The president's fans are sending violent threats to federal judges. Judge Ho wants to make clear to anyone who might choose a future Supreme Court justice that he doesn't think those threats should be that big of a deal.

ICE Kills Minneapolis Woman And Will Probably Evade Justice: Prosecuting the ICE agent who killed Renee Good presents an uphill battle. Unfortunately, civil relief could prove just as elusive.

The Third Amendment Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer To Midnight: Hilton cut off a franchisee after the Department of Homeland Security attacked the global chain over social media because the local management did not want to deal with the protests related to housing ICE agents.

See Ya!: Judge placed on leave after video of racist and homophobic remarks went viral has now lost her job.

Fake U.S. Attorney Can't Take A Hint: Judge losing patience with Lindsey Halligan pretending to be a prosecutor.

Chief Justice's Annual Report Cites Founding Father Who Would Have Zero Tolerance For This Nonsense: The man who gave Donald Trump absolute immunity framed his latest report around Thomas Paine.

Government Attacks Abrego Garcia’s Reputation As He Awaits Trial — See Also

Garcia Wants To See Some Consequences When They Violate Court Orders: He's pushing for sanctions.

Too Bad To Punish: Ethics authority opts out of charging Brendan Carr.

A Record-Setting Year For M&A!: Which businesses will be the next to combine?

So Long, Judge Ryan!: "New Racist" judge finally calls it quits after collecting free money for 15 months.

Appearing Healthy Is Good For Business: Your colleagues might not be as healthy as they're letting on.

Irony Died A Long Time Ago — See Also

Judge Ho Attacks Judges With "Overinflated Intelligence": Stop hitting yourself.

Attorney Indicted On 91 Felony Counts: That's a lot of stalking!

Vibes Can't Get You That Far: Another hopeful fails to make U.S. Attorney.

All Eyes On Them: See if you can guess the most searched law firms of 2025!

ICE Kills Legal Observer In Broad Daylight — See Also

Obviously Wrong, But Probably Not Wrong Enough For Qualified Immunity: Mayor Jacob Frey has since told ICE to leave his state.

Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Firm starts off new year by shutting its doors forever.

So Much Money Can Only Mean One Thing: Layoffs are coming.

Why Keep Up The Act?: Judge makes Lindsey Halligan explain why she's pretending to be U.S. Attorney.

Texas Supreme Court Just Gave Themselves A New Job: They've severed ties with ABA accreditation. Kinda.

Third Amendment Jawboning!? — See Also

This Administration Keeps Knocking At The Third Amendment: And at the doors of Hilton, no less!

K-9s Are One Thing, But Give Me A Break: AI model claims officer morphed into frog.

George Conway Is Running For Congress: The former partner wants to represent you!

Judge Resigns After Obstruction Conviction: She says Milwaukee Branch 31 deserves to start the year with a judge on the bench.

Cast Your Vote!: Who deserves to be crowned Lawyer Of The Year?

You Can Say Whatever You Want When You’re The Chief Justice — See Also

Chief Justice Roberts Invents Thomas Paine Legacy From New Cloth: If only he were here to defend himself.

Steven Banks Takes Helm As Corporate Counsel: New York is in good hands!

Law Students Call On ABA To Tell Biglaw To Chill Out On Recruitment Speeds: As it stands, everybody is stressed out.

Timing Matters: The DOJ's attention to detail is lacking in the DC Pipe Bomb case.

Thrice As Nice!: Lowenstein Sandler takes our 17th annual Holiday Card Contest!

Doing Good Work Used To Pay Off — See Also

Trump Rule Made A Lot Of Public Service Work Ineligible For Loan Forgiveness: There goes helping your fellow man.

Third Amendment Aficionados Perked Up For A Bit: The National Guard can't sleep on your couch!

Government Immigration Attorney Watch List Gets Leaked: That's a scary thing to know is out there.

In Bonus News: Norton Rose Fulbright starts the year off right!

Even AI Knew Something Was Up — See Also

That Time ChatJAG Pointed Out The Obvious: Immediate egg on Hegseth's face.

Look At All That Prestige!: Vault's Biglaw rating struck a little off for not factoring in the pro bono payola firms.

Take That, Ed Martin: Georgetown Law had no qualms with fighting back.

Now That's A Commute!: Could you imagine regularly flying in for class?

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: This year of Thinking Like A Lawyer!

What Should We See In 2026?: Here's a list of hope and appropriate snark.

Recall A Biting Memory — See Also

Touchy With The Teeth: Sidley associate fired after (politely) gnawing on her co-workers.

Keep The Congratulations On The Hush Hush: Kirkland opts out of advertising their newest partners.

Prof. Files Fed Suit After Kirk-Related Censorship: Bold move, University of Tennessee.

Amy Coney Barrett Outlines The King Decision: Excuse me, President for life*.