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Countdown Until ‘Skadden Represents 3rd Officer This Week In Police Brutality Case’ Headline Gets Written — See Also

Beat The Charge, Free Of Charge: Executive order tees up domesticated law firms to represent cops accused of unlawful use of force and other charges.

Of Course It Involved Golf: Sullivan & Cromwell's "negotiations" probably weren't as formal as you'd think.

Speaking Of Money Matters: How about a $300k starting salary for associates?!

Perkins Coie Teaches Lesson In Malicious Compliance: You want the names? Now you've got 40 pages worth!

Harvard Law Gets Hit With Spite Emails About Law Review: FASORP is back at it again. This time they're encouraging honor code violations.

This Is What 100 Days Of ‘Winning’ Looks Like — See Also

Things Are Going Historically Bad: Looks like we're living in the worst 100 first days of a presidency.

FASORP Goes Full Spite LARP-ing: The losers want law review applicants to lie about themselves on their personal statements.

Don't Find Tax Law Too Taxing?: Here's where you want to enroll!

Are There 9 People Out There Who Don't Know About Diddy?: This is going to be a rough jury selection!

These Are The Top Law Schools For Job Prospects!: Do your best to make sure your investment pays off!

The Courts Are Fine, We’re Fine, Everything’s Fine — See Also

Orange Is The New Black (Robes): FBI agents arresting judges in their courthouses sadly was on our 2025 bingo card.

Justice Breyer Still Believes In Institutions... For Some Reason: Bless his heart, he thinks the rule of law is still a thing.

New DOJ Slogan: 'Fake It 'Til You Make It': After making up a fake Supreme Court quote, is the Justice Department farming out their wrongful deportation case to ChatGPT?

Having A Conscience, Not Just For Philosophy Majors Anymore: Law students taking their disgust over Biglaw surrender straight to OCI.

You Yadda Yadda-ed The Best Part: Sam Alito skips the “actually applying the law” part of in his latest deportation opinion.

The Rich Get Richer: The AmLaw 100 has 99 problems but cash ain't one.

From SCOTUSblog To MAGABlog: The venerable Supreme Court blog acquired by former Trump DOJ official.

More Like LinkedOUT, Am I Right?: Disillusioned Kirkland attorneys are quitting in revulsion and airing it all out one LinkedIn post at a time.

'I Don't Like The Look Of It': A deep dive into the experience of Willy Wonka's general counsel during Charlie & The Chocolate Factory.

You Can Check Off ‘Judges Are Getting Arrested’ From Your How-Bad-Is-It-Really? List — See Also

The Judge Was Arrested In Her Own Courthouse: Kash Patel bragged about the arrest on Twitter.

Hunting For A Federal Clerkship?: These are the schools judges want to see on your application!

Movement Of The People: The Kirkland Exodus grows in number.

Pauline Newman's Oral Argument Gets Bogged Down By Judge Hypotheticals: Much ado about disability scenarios that weren't related to the case at all.

Turns Out Trying To Shut Down Employee Communication Isn't Just Rude: There's an NLRB probe coming for Skadden.

Judge Turns Insurance Dispute In To Navel-Gazing Enterprise — See Also

Is This A Judicial Opinion Or Freshman Philosophy Hour?: Next up, a hamburger contract breach that asks how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

Signs Before The Fall: Both Kirkland and Simpson lined Trump associated lobbyist's pockets before they knelt.

Interested In Public Interest?: Here are the schools that should be on your radar!

Check Out This Football-Related Opinion: Judge Wilken sides with the students.

Musical Canadian's Legal Team Takes Offense At Kendrick's Halftime Show: They argue not saying the word still rises to the level of defamation.

Good Luck Finding New Talent! — See Also

Law Students Refuse To Work For Capitulating Firms: Resistance matters at every level.

Want To Make Sure Your Law School Investment Pays Off?: These are the top law schools for Biglaw employment prospects!

Donna Adelson Tries To Get Judge Disqualified: Didn't work, but hey -- gotta see what sticks!

Brand New Experimental Test Probably Wasn't The Time To Use AI: Yes, it was dumb. Yes, it was for the California Bar.

SCOTUSBlog Ownership Hits A "Turning Point": The right wing just gained another media outlet.

The Deadline Approaches!: Submit your entry to ATL's 16th Annual Law Revue Video Contest by April 25th (also known as Friday)!

This Week On Thinking Like A Lawyer: Biglaw made loads of money & even conservatives are worried about the Rule of Law.

It’s An Honor, Really — See Also

Rachel Cohen Honored For Standing Up To Skadden For The Rule Of Law: Now that's a line for the resume!

It's Like Saying "I Do" To The Rule Of Law: Check out Lawyers for Good Government's National Law Day of Action!

DOJ Makes Another "Administrative Error": DOJ's lawyers can't even properly quote the Supreme Court!

Getting A Neutral Jury For Luigi Is A Big Ask: From medical bills to the perp walk, a lot of people have already formed their opinions.

Read The Deep Dive Into Legal Spending: See the breakdown of the riches firms of all sizes pulled in last year.

Former Justice Breyer Rings The Criminal Contempt Alarm — See Also

Refusing The Court Is Criminal: Former Justice thinks Marc Rubio, Pam Bondi, and others can be held in criminal contempt for defying orders.

Bad Thing About Public Opinions Is That They're Public: Justice Alito shares his piss poor IRAC skills and gets made fun of.

In-House Lawyer At Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory Speaks Out: You'll never look at the Golden Ticket sweepstakes the same way ever again.

Law Students Are Getting In On The Amicus Briefing: What's the point of a JD if there's no law left when they graduate?

There's Rich, And Then There's The Firms On This List: See if your firm is one of the super rich ones!

The Intellectual Legal Right Is Coming For Trump — See Also

Lawyers On The Right And The Left Agree: What the Trump administration is doing is deeply disturbing.

More Folks Are Quitting The Cowardly Firms That Made Deals With Trump: Simpson Thacher, Latham and Kirkland are down some quality attorneys -- and they have no one to blame but themselves.

But Not Everyone Is Bending The Knee To Trump: Law school faculty is taking a stand.

Susman Godfrey Is Fighting The Good Fight: And notching an early -- and important-- victory.

A&O Shearman Has Never Seen The Original Star Wars: Because they think Trump will respect boundaries.

Even The Thoughts You May Think Are Dangerous — See Also

Marco Rubio Pushes For Thought Crime Deportations: This is going to end up in the "How did they let things get so far" part of a history book.

NYU's Law Faculty Model Principled Defiance: Show these other schools how its done!

Law School Punishes Hopefuls For Not Committing Quick Enough: Hurry it up folks, its just a major life decision!

Wisconsin Governor's Veto Power Creates Perpetuities Problem: His quick edits look to be on the books for the next 400 years.

World's On Fire But The Party Goes On: Send in your Law Revue submissions!

A&O Shearman Drew A Very Strange Line In The Sand — See Also

The Firm's $125M Capitulation Has A Very Small Asterisk: No free work on trade deals!

That's Way Too Many Pro Boner Hours: Attorney may have gotten caught streaming 60+ hours of porn at work.

Plagiarism Isn't Just A School Problem: Lawyer gets punished for copy and pasting from a public complaint.

...Is That A Brian Steel Shirt?: Young Thug immortalizes his lawyer with album promo swag.

At What Point Is Showing Up Early Just A Waste Of Time?: Biglaw pushed back their OCI recruiting even earlier than before.

Biglaw Wins, Losses, And Goodbyes — See Also

Resisting Firms Are Winning Bigly!: Not only is this the 4th firm to win a TRO, the judge sends their compliments!

Reed Smith Nixes Their Diversity Program To Avoid The EEOC: Weird, that was kind of their thing for the last decade or so.

Sometimes, Good Advocacy Means Departure: Associates jump ship from Kirkland, Latham.

Diversity Backlash Hits Non-Profit Fighting Discrimination: Threats to funding forced hard decisions.

Two Too Many?: DOJ sues Maine over accommodating children they don't like.

Defending Bad Boys: Brian Steel joins Sean Comb's legal team.

This Week On Thinking Like A Lawyer: Arbitrary law school rankings, due process and Biglaw butchering their reputation.

Pro Bono Or Protection? — See Also

Call It What It Is: The free labor these firms pledged to Donald Trump have nothing to do with helping those in need.

Criticism From On High: Paul Hastings partner has strong words for firms that capitulated to Trump's will.

Rankings Are Out!: Very strong financial year for big names in Biglaw! Shame they didn't invest those profits in a strong backbone.

ABA Faces Lawsuit For "Discriminating Against Whites": More of the same old diversity suits.

Law Revue Is Here!: Send in your submissions and brighten up everyone's day. Please. We need a win.

Another Associate Tells Firm Goodbye And Good Riddance — See Also

Working For Simps No Longer: Attorney ends stay at capitulating firm with a fiery send off.

Partner Sends A Norm Check To The Firm: In short, none of this is normal and people need to stop acting like it.

Laura Loomer Complains That Bill Maher Hired "Anti-Trump" firm: She does realize that means most firms, right?

Special Bonuses!: Boutique law firm hands out a nice little distraction from everything else going on.

Keep Up To Date On Who Stands And Falls!: Give our consistently updated Biglaw Spine Index another glance.

A&O Shearman One Of Most Recent Firms To Make The $100M+ Pro Bono Mistake — See Also

The Associates Have Spoken & The Pressure Is On: An overwhelming majority of the associates want the firm to stand their ground.

Too Little, Too Late: A&O Shearman folded, along with several other cowards.

Our Time's "All Deliberate Speed" Ruling Was Met With Two Middle Fingers: The government is refusing to "operate on judicial timelines" after disappearing a man without due process.

One Firm's PR Crisis Is Some Sad Soul's PR Opportunity: Would you want to scrub Skadden's reputation after they knelt to The Don?

How Far Is Your Classroom?!: Law student regularly takes 4000-mile round trip commute to attend unspecified law school in New York.