See Also

Quitting Biglaw Over Executive Orders Isn’t Just For Third Years — See Also

Biglaw Firm Loses One Of Their Most Experienced Lawyers: The first of many to come?

Susman Godfrey Targeted By Latest Executive Order: That isn't even the worst news.

Jenner And WilmerHale Keep The Fight Going: They want the whole executive order to be enjoined.

Jay-Z Isn't Letting Up Off Tony Buzbee: Defamation or SLAPP? The judge will decide.

Finally Making Sense Of The U.S. News Shake-Up: This will make it a lot easier to see where your school placed compared to last year!

Are You Tired Of Winning Yet?: Ruining the economy isn't some 4-D chess move meant to help the voter base.

Ballard Spahr Accused Of Discriminating Against Former Employee: She alleges gender discrimination and being fired over a disability.

Supreme Court Pretends To Give Due Process Its Due — See Also

Shadow Docket Opinion On Due Process Too Little, Too Late: Based on her dissent, Sotomayor has had enough of it.

The Don Sets Sights On Cadwalader: Will they stand tall or fold over?

US News Royally Messed Up Their Rankings Release: Come for the live ranking discrepancies, stay for the damage control and the seventeen "T14" members.

Respect For Authority Has Its Limits: Vivia Chen squares off with Stephen Gillers.

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!

U.S. News Releases The Wrong Law School Rankings: Maybe no one will notice -- just kidding, ATL noticed.

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.

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 Waiving 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 in-house recommends.

Weird Place To See Your Professor’s Name! — See Also

Hundreds Of Law Professors File Amicus Brief: See if your school is represented!

Didn't Expect To See That Name So Soon: The prosecution wants a second bite at Jeffrey Williams.

A Decision Meant To Last: Cheers to 18 years of sobriety!

Are You Caught Up On The Fealty List?: Start with Milbank and go in reverse order.

Milbank Goes Morally Bankrupt — See Also

Milbank Is The Latest Biglaw Firm To Kneel To Trump: More pro bono payola.

DLA Piper Has A Reason For Cracking Down On Diversity: It isn't a good one, but it is there.

Law School Applications Bump In Response To Trump's 2nd Term: Shame there might not be the rule of law when they graduate.

Can't Even Squarely Call It A Republican Problem: Bush Jr's Attorney General isn't a fan of Trump's law firm revenge plan.

Some Alumni Throw Dirt On Their Alma Mater: Sure Yale is loving whatever JD Vance is doing.

Keep Your Fraud And Your Girlfriend Separate: Disbarred attorney gets 6 years for fraud spree.

Hey, Where’s My Money? — See Also

Biglaw Firm Delays Bonuses And Raises: What's the matter with Lewis Brisbois?

Willkie Might Be Next On The Chopping Block: No way Willkie will cave!

About That Maybe: Another $100M in pro bono payola for the "Art Of The Deal" president. Damn it.

A Goodbye Worth Sipp-ing To: Another Former Skadden associate speaks truth to power.

Spurned Group Targets Michigan Law Review: They really need you to know that they were good enough to get in.

Georgetown Law Students Humble Skadden — See Also

Nobody Wants To Work At A Firm With No Bite: Student group tells Skadden to not even bother with recruitment efforts.

The Big Punches Aren't Coming From Biglaw: Boutique firms are doing the most damage against the administration.

Justice Sotomayor Must Have Seen The News: Her belief that legal norms would be respected isn't as strong as it used to be.

Skadden Associates Are Fighting Back Against The Firm: They won't recruit for a firm they don't believe in.

Human Lawyers, Please And Thanks: Appellant's AI avatar didn't entertain the judges.

Not Trying To Be Mean...: But these are some really low MBE score averages.

Two Biglaw Paths Diverge In The Woods — See Also

Fallout From Skadden's Capitulation: A principled "I QUIT" from an associate.

Suddenly Skadden Associates Can't Send Out Mass Emails: Not suspicious at all...

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale Get Court Victories Against Trump: From a pair of GOP-appointed federal judges.

Speaking Of Conservative Judges And Principled Stands: Maybe stop calling for impeachment when judges are just doing their jobs is a good idea.

Trump Admin Big Mad Over Due Process: And would really like SCOTUS to bail them out.

Biglaw Firms Square Off Against The Administration — See Also

Look At That, Lawyers Willing To Mount A Legal Defense!: There's still some fight in the industry!

They Aren't The Only Ones!: WilmerHale and Paul Clement prepare to do battle.

Skadden Makes Paul Weiss Look Like They Got Off Easy: $100M pro bono payola.

Calling Pam Bondi, Do Your Job!: Thousands urge her to prove her competency.

Law School Platforms Project 2025 Author And Calls It Free Speech: Hard to call it a free exchange of ideas when ICE is only arresting one side of the conversation.

Switch 'Em Out: Biglaw Trump cases get assigned to new judges.

Ad Homs Aren’t As Forceful As The Administration Thought — See Also

[Late night developments... Skadden caves to Trump threat and the White House targets WilmerHale]

Trump Administration Insults Fail To Sway Judge: No falling in line!

Law School Deans Denounce The Trump Administration: Three cheers for the rule of law!

Fraud Comes With Costs: Disbarred lawyer gets 25 years stemming from weed fraud.

Turns Out Groveling To Trump Is Horrible For Business: Paul Weiss's “financial decision" could cost them a lot of money.

So Much For OCI — See Also

Just Send In Your Resume: This elite Biglaw firm is done with OCI. Is yours?

The List Grows In Number!: Over 50 bar associations stand between Trump and the rule of law.

About Those Checks And Balances: Republicans want to get rid of federal courts because they're stopping the Trump Train.

Associates Hit Back At Firms Falling In Line: The PR nightmare for Paul Weiss is only going to get worse.

Tough Luck Judge Boasburg: Guess who got saddled with Signalgate!

Elon Musk Sets His Sights On Skadden — See Also

Announcing Battle By Tweet: Biglaw firm in the hot seat for challenging conspiracy laden Dinesh D’Souza film.

Jenner & Block Joins The Trump Hit List: Let's see how they respond!

Due Process So Bad That Godwin's Law Showed Up: D.C. Circuit judge says that Nazis had better due process than Venezuelan nationals.

American Constitutional Society Calls Out Law School Deans: Who will be the next to speak up?

Time Flushes Out The Nonsense: And this Paul Weiss interview aged horribly.

Small Firm, Hard Hits — See Also

Boutique Law Firm Punches Back Against The Trump Administration: Paul Weiss should be taking notes.

The Story On Saving Hide: Here's some intel on why Paul Weiss bent the knee.

Alina Habba Got A Promotion: Great for her; probably bad for New Jersey.

Former Clerks Get Preferential Treatment!: $175k signing bonus!

Jessica Aber Passed Away In Her Home: We extend our condolences to her family and friends.