AZA Bumps Up Their Pay Scale: Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing P.C. pay their associates for their excellence!
You Get What You Pay For: Trump’s lawyers keep missing easy deadlines.
Fired Law School Dean Files Sexual Discrimination Suit: Despite clear successes, he was fired several months after marrying his husband.
Just A Nomination For Now: Will Todd Blanche actually get confirmed?
Dead Lawyer Theory: Will LLMs and laziness push out actual human lawyering?
Trump's Kennedy Center Benchslapped Over Loser Of A Lawsuit: You think they'd point to an actual contract in a breach of contract suit!
Groom Law Adopts The Milbank Scale: Setting their associates up for success!
Zealous Advocacy Has Its Limits: Ken Paxton's own lawyer didn't vote for him.
Todd Blanche Is A Joke: John Oliver didn't have to work too hard for these punchlines.
Ninth Circuit Judge Charged With Battery Over Parking Attempt Turned Violent: You'd think a judge would be better at staying in the lines.
Law School Gifted $5M To Study The Rule Of Law: Huge win for Temple!
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
Milbank Shocks The Market: Everyone had settled into the old associate pay scale, when Milbank decided to yet again respond to the rise in the cost of living.
Scoreboard: Follow all the matching salary moves with this scorecard.
That's The Price Of A Checked Bag: Davis Polk's Spirit Airlines bankruptcy filing shows second-year associates billing $1,410 an hour.
DOJ Lawyers Either Very Dumb Or Working As Moles: The superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center managed to make the government's already flimsy case even worse.
Calvinball With A Twist: Supreme Court Republicans used the shadow docket to let Alabama install new, racist maps... because they don't want to even try to pen an opinion explaining this one.
Regularity Is A Virtue: Supreme Court reform is almost inevitable. The latest installment in this spirited debate explains why term limits are the right answer.
Another Biglaw Firm Matches Milbank: Katten Muchin bumps up their salaries!
Keeping Up With The Milbanks: Check to see if your firm is on the scoreboard!
Here Lies Diversity Lab: The FTC successfully harassed the diversity initiative into shutting down.
Alternative Facts And Alternative Histories: The Trump administration tries erasing proof of the failed Jan. 6th coup.
Associate Prosecutor Disbarred Over Law School Stealing: Reminder of how important it is to police the police.
Lawyers Worth Their Fee Know Silence Is Golden: Talking less could make you better at your job.
Quinn Emanuel Matches Milbank's Salary Scale: With $2.7 billion in revenue for 2025, they can afford it!
This Boutique Is Doling Out Milbank Money: Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes is spreading the riches!
Spring Bonuses!: Dunn Isaacson Rhee announces special bonuses up to $25K!
Shia LeBeouf Pleads Guilty To Battery: He walked away with a slap on the wrist.
Interested In IP?: These schools should be at the top of your list!
"I Think He Will, Yeah": Trump thinks his former criminal defense attorney is doing a "very good job."
Explaining Is For Lower Courts: SCOTUS opts out of justifying Alabama's use of racist election maps.
I'm Busy, Go Talk To Me*: Biglaw firm launches AI partners for associates to interact with.
The Biggest Of The Big: These are the country's 500 largest law firms!
This Week On Thinking Like A Lawyer: Judicial chambers hook ups and AI sleuthing!
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
We Love To See The Associate Compensation!: And Milbank loves setting the scale.
We Have A Match!: McDermott Will & Schulte the first to match the Milbank scale!
Todd Blanche Got Mossed: The DOJ's Comey 86 prosecutions comes up with goose egg.
Law Firms Are Buying Up Real Estate: Remarkable! Not sure why they'll need all that space with AI adoption, though.
Might As Well Skip Office Hours: Double blind study suggests AI may be more helpful than your professors at answering questions.
We Knew Folks Have Been Jumping Ship, But The Number Is Staggering: The government has been bleeding attorneys since 2025.
Hueston Hennigan Is Paying Out The Big Bucks: Summer bonuses up to $35K!
Aging Out Of Life Tenure: The reasons for giving Supreme Court justices life appointments don't hold up anymore.
Trump Gets The Boot: The Kennedy Center gets its old name back.
Florida Supreme Court Tells You To Check Your Sources: You should have learned this in legal writing!
If The Chambers Are A-Rockin' Don't Come A-Knockin': A federal district court judge was caught having sex in her chambers with a high-ranking police official and then lying about it. judicial complaint. Her fellow judges issued a private reprimand, scrubbing the report of obviously identifiable material. But the judges didn't realize that AI could decipher that it was Judge Eleanor Ross of the Northern District of Georgia within minutes based just on the reports and public internet access.
Department Of Justice Served With Bar Tab: A New York bar complaint targets Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after Chief Judge Waverly Crenshaw found that he orchestrated a presumptively vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. At the same time, more than 120 scholars and former judges reminded the Florida Bar that it previously said that as long as Pam Bondi remained the sitting Attorney General it couldn't investigate ethics charges against her. And, well, she's not anymore.
A Real Dog Of A Case: Houston attorney Steven Swain faces a bestiality charge after his wife's newly installed home-surveillance cameras allegedly caught him with the family dog.
Two Fox Rothschild Attorneys Shot Outside A North Carolina Courthouse: Both lawyers are expected to survive after a pro se plaintiff allegedly opened fire following a contentious hearing.
DOJ Continues To Confuse 'Enforcing Criminal Laws' With 'Weaponization': The DOJ fired four career prosecutors who enforced the FACE Act and then released a Weaponization Working Group report branding their work as biased against criminals that Republicans agree with,
When It Rains, It Pours Sanctions: A Cayman Islands judge concluded that a Quinn Emanuel partner's affidavit was a deliberate attempt to mislead the court, adding to a rough year that already featured a $3 million sanctions order from Judge Edward Chen.
A Hot Bonus Spring: Selendy Gay surprised associates with spring bonuses of up to $25,000, the latest sign that the boutiques are again setting the pace on comp.
Looking For More Experience: For the first time in years, the majority of Biglaw associate hiring happened on the lateral end of the market in 2025, with law student hires sliding to 37.5 percent.
Threats To Judges Apparently Only Count Above A Certain Pay Grade: A swatting attempt at Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home generated headlines, but the documented surge of threats against lower court judges -- 241 against 202 judges in 2026 alone -- keeps getting buried near the bottom of the story.
Working For Trump Is Its Own Form Of Punishment: DLA Piper's Caryn Schechtman signed a brief for Trump in the Central Park Five defamation appeal, joining a long line of lawyers serving a client who already owes a dozen firms $1.6 million.
Selendy Gay Springs Money On Their Associates!: This boutique pays out the big bucks!
The Climate Scoreboard Is Out!: See where the biggest names in Biglaw rank on climate work.
Attempted Swatting At Amy Coney Barrett's Home: Dangerous time to be a judge.
Trump Gets Legal Help From DLA Piper: A partner at the firm was hired to defend his comments about the Central Park 5.
Siloed Workers Don't Learn At The Water Cooler: Senior partners can't outsource training new talent to LLMs.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
This Is Going To Be The Best AI Sleuthing Story You Read Today: Here's how we figured out Eleanor Ross was the unnamed judge.
Todd Blanche Faces NY Bar Complaint: Vindictive prosecution has consequences. Sometimes.
Patagonia Takes Pattie Gonia To Court: This IP suit is about as far from drab as it gets!
Nice Win, I Guess: Paxton's wife couldn't bother to endorse him.
On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Pauline Newman's very loud absence and Quinn Emanuel's "deeply disturbing" ethics.
Firms Are Hiring More Laterals Than Law Students: Killing OCI has its consequences.
Quinn Emanuel Earns Another Benchslap!: If an associate did what the leading partner on the matter did, they'd have been shown the door.
Let's Look At Trump's Settlement Agreement: It looks like he's trying to hide something.
Consider The Alternatives!: These schools do an amazing job of teaching alternative dispute resolution.
Blessed Be No Longer: Pope Leo's announcement on AI could change how professors give exams.
Litigant Allegedly Opened Fire On Opposing Counsel: She was charged with two counts of attempted first degree murder.
Look At This Lawyer, Dog; He's Going To Jail: Attorney jailed on bestiality charges.
Churn Baby, Churn: Associate burnout lateraling is real and law firm culture is part of the reason why.
DOJ Targets Prosecutors Who Did Their Jobs: No good deed goes unpunished by this administration.
SCOTUS Term Limits?: A band-aid on a much larger problem, but still worth discussing.
Meta Loses SCOTUS Bid To Evade Suit In Vermont: Prepare to get sued everywhere!
Write Your Own Detention Slip: Judge Edward Chen hit Quinn Emanuel with nearly $3 million in sanctions and ordered three of its attorneys to complete an eight-hour ethics course that the firm itself must design.
Devil's Food, Not Bundt Cake: The DOJ indicted a former federal prosecutor for emailing herself the still-secret volume of the Jack Smith report under the file name "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf." Because the administration REALLY doesn't want that report going public.
Stand Down And Stand By Reaches Its Payday: Todd Blanche testifies that he's not ruling out taxpayer funds flowing to pardoned J6 rioter -- one convicted of molesting two children and reportedly promising victims "Trump bucks" for their silence out of $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
Litigation Department Is Fine, Says Litigation Department On Fire: Paul, Weiss has lost even more litigators.
An Improper, Warrantless Breakfast: Judge suppressed evidence in the Luigi Mangione case after finding that Altoona police conducted an improper, warrantless search of his backpack at a McDonald's -- a ruling the press framed as the court "throwing him a bone" rather than the Fourth Amendment doing exactly what it is supposed to do.
Todd Blanche's 'Trump's Personal Lawyer' Shirt Has People Asking A Lot Of Questions Already Answered By His Shirt: Pressed by Senator Van Hollen on his conflict of interest, Blanche responded by yelling that the press should stop calling him Trump's former personal lawyer despite being entirely accurate.
Arraignment Proceeds Without The Defendant -- Or Her Dignity: A 33-year-old woman gave birth on a bench in a Brooklyn arraignment courtroom after being held more than 30 hours on low-level charges, and the system, rather than pausing for the arrival of a human being, simply ran the arraignment without her.
The Looksmaxxer Got Out-Looksmaxxed: Looksmaxxing influencer "Clavicular" took a plea deal for shooting a dead alligator on livestream, but the internet ignored the charge entirely and instead declared that Miami-Dade Judge Marcus Bach-Armas had decisively "mogged" the 20-year-old in his own courtroom.
Paul, Weiss Loses Two More Litigation Partners: They insist everything is still alright.
Sure, Just Let AI Do The Hiring Now I Guess: Revolut's "disruptive" tech adoption is getting ridiculed.
Expensive Internet? Blame The Migrants!: Trump wants to pin broadband cost increases on immigrant fraud.
Biglaw Firm Announces Partner Bonus Pool: Debevoise & Plimpton is swimming in the money!
Another Free Speech Social Media Arrest: This time, Texas police show they don't care about the First Amendment.