See Also

The Papertrail Always Comes Back — See Also

Get A Load Of John Bolton's Emails: Dude talked about everything.

Not All Work Is Created Equal: Does your firm punish associates with hard work?

Innovation Matters!: Is your law school one of the most innovative?

Washington Litigation Group Is Ready To Fight: The nonprofit is taking on cases core to the rule of law.

Now That's What I Call A Lot Of Law Students!: The boost in applications means easy pickings for law schools.

Clio Wants To Be A One Stop Shop: How will they scale up from small law?

Show Us The Money! — See Also

Ever Wondered How Much Small And Midsize Practitioners Make?: We wonder too! Let us know so we can share.

Coverage From The Other Side: SCOTUSBlog founder is headed to trial.

It's A Matter Of Value: See which law schools carry the most!

San Francisco Sends Warnings To The National Guard: You can't beat up on their citizens and not expect the law to get you.

You Really Should Just Stick To ‘Your Honor’ — See Also

No Evidence, Some Problems!: Wasting tax payer money for the sake of Trump's vengeance.

Dear Deans, This Is For You!: Just change out your school name to add a little personal flair to your next free speech announcement.

FASORP Faces Another Public Loss: The quitters fizzled out before anything meaningful happened.

It’s All Relativity: Check out Joe's rundown of RelativityFest!

Make Your Biglaw Predictions!: Keep us informed so we can return the favor!

Magically Disappearing Partners — See Generally

Who? Never Heard Of 'Em: Kirkland decides not to name the new partners.

Disappearing Lawyers The Old Fashioned Way: Cadwalader loses nearly 40 in raid.

DOJ Gets Creative: And annoys judge in the process.

We Expect Fake History, But This Is Ridiculous!: Federal judges asked to explain how fake cites ended up in their opinions.

We're Not Saying They're Connected, But...: Judge's home burns down after she ruled against Trump administration and Stephen Miller told the faithful that judges are shielding terrorists.

I Used To Bullseye Womprats: Harvard Law professor arrested after going rat hunting.

Don't Take The Brown Acid: Deloitte caught issuing report with AI hallucinations.

The DOJ Isn’t Getting Their Way — See Also

If You Fail Once, Try Failing A Second Time: Good luck getting a local statute to bind the federal judiciary!

Trump Admitted To Taking The Right To Free Speech Away: Hard to get more anti-American than that.

Is Your Firm Outsourcing Recruitment To Law Students?: This is the nonsense that happens when you get rid of NALP guardrails.

He's Not Like Us, Legally: Federal judges dismisses Drake's lawsuit against UMG.

Send Us Your Bonus Predictions!: Take our survey so we can keep everyone up to date on bonuses.

New Merger Alert! — See Also

Welcome To The Fold, FBT Gibbons!: They are set to go live on January 1st, 2026.

Crime May Actually Pay: Sullivan & Cromwell got scammed for half a million dollars.

Here Is The Letitia James Indictment: Who needs evidence, really?

Can You Argue A Murder Charge In 11 Hours Flat?: Oregon wants that to be the new standard.

Future Lawyers Won't Need A Backbone Or A Heart Beat: How will the practice adopt to AI attorneys?

World’s Richest Law Firm Is Hush Hush About Their New Partners — See Also

Kirkland Opts Out Of Announcing Their New Partners: Is it because they are too ashamed after partners lateral out?

Would Have Gotten Away With It Too If Not For The Lack Of Evidence!: The Trump administration is having a hard time prosecuting James Comey.

Williams & Connolly Hit By Hackers: They join the number of firms hit by Chinese hackers searching for sensitive information.

Grading Doesn't Stop After Law School: Law professor catches law firm's failure to clean up after AI hallucinations.

Politics Boosts Law School Application Numbers: Weird time to want to think like a lawyer!

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Utah paves a way without the bar exam.

Mind Your Cell Phones — See Also

Immigration Attorney Gets His Phone Nabbed By ICE: He successfully got a TRO, but the damage may have already been done.

Will The Original Originalists Please Stand Up?: Alito accuses other jurists of not being hardcore enough in the Originalism department.

The Investigation Is Under Way: The fire that hit Judge Goodstein's home doesn't seem deliberately set.

Legal Tech Can Be Used For Good: Relativity is investing in justice.

...But You Have To Be Good When You're Using It: Senator asks if AI is to blame for judges’ poorly written orders.

This Biglaw Firm Is Bleeding Talent — See Also

One Firm's Loss Is Another Firm's Gain: The defecting attorneys set sail for Orrick.

Visiting Professor At Harvard Arrested: One of the charges was for illegally discharging a pellet gun.

Shameful To Talk About Shame: Paul Weiss doesn't seem too keen on the term "Capitulation Firm."

Judge's House Catches Fire After Death Threats: Strange timing considering this Stephen Miller tweet.

State Ditches Bar Exam As Only Way To Become Lawyer — See Generally

State Previews Future Without The Bar Exam: Utah unveils a new, alternate pathway to licensure focused on practical experience.

Storied Wall Street Firm Enters Its “Co-Management” Era: After capitulating to Trump and suffering bigtime talent losses, Cadwalader adds a co-manager.

Justice Thomas Shows Cowardice Of His Convictions: Thomas described stepping away from teaching after erasing reproductive freedom rather than deal with critical law students.

Biglaw Is A Lot Like A Family... In That You Have To Go Spend Time With Them No Matter How Much You Want To Stay Home: Another firm announces some mandatory office time.

Go Out There And Decide One For The Gipper: Federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan delivers scathing rebuke of Trump administration tactics.

Texas Decides It’s Done With The ABA, Which Is Fair Since It’s Been Done With Education For Awhile: Maybe it would help if the ABA agreed to hang the Ten Commandments in all law schools?

What We Didn't Want To Do In The Shadows: The conservative justices hoped to keep rubberstamping the administration's dismantling of the federal government, but the White House couldn't leave the Federal Reserve alone.

Life Of A Show Prosecutor: Nevada's interim U.S. Attorney joins the ranks of Trump appointees found illegally trying to serve by adverse possession.

James Comey Hires Experienced Counsel To 86 47's Criminal Case Against Him: The former FBI director picked a small firm with a rich pedigree for his witch hunt prosecution.

Biglaw Money Is Talking — See Also

Blue Cheese: Biglaw lawyers and staff are sending their money to overwhelmingly Democrat causes.

Nevermind The Child Porn Allegations: Federal judge rules Nirvana's second album cover isn't sexually suggestive.

Why Be Good When You Could Be Worse?: AI could be making productivity worse!

He Kept His Enemy Too Close: Kid gets snitched on by ChatGPT.

If You Thought Rowdy Students Were Bad, Imagine Being Forced To Be A Mom — See Also

Justice Thomas Explains That He Jumped Ship From Comfy Teaching Gig Because The Dobbs Backlash Amounted To "Unpleasantness": He taught students at a GWU law school who all volunteered for his class. How much backlash was there really?

Utah Bets On The Bar Being Optional: Check out their alternate licensing path!

Harvey To Your Left, Harvey To Your Right: The LLM is taking over the T14.

The Chilling Effect Is Real: Firms back down from representing the ABA on Trump matters.

Salaries Above The Cravath Scale! — See Also

Big Money Over At Brithem LLP!: They expect to have at least 20 attorneys by 2026.

MMMaking America Great Again: Republican-appointed judge compares Trump tactics to the Klan.

Global Office Attendance Update: DLA Piper plans to bumps up their in-person requirements.

Trump's Harvard Strong-Arming Could Be Over Soon: He claims a $500M settlement is in the future.

Democracy Forward Is Putting The Work In: They have more than 100 actions against the administration.

The Force Of Law With None Of The Explanation — See Also

Lower Courts Pushed To Conform Their Rulings With Shadow Dockets: They have the majority, but actual cases would take too long.

Here's Where To Summer: A Biglaw tier list ranked by summer associates!

Lessons To Learn From Arguing Supreme Court Cases: Neal Katyal shares what he learned.

Trump Goes Hard On Microsoft: He wants an in-house attorney fired over her work experience.

DLA Piper Prepares For Court: It'll be up to a jury to decide if they fired an attorney for taking maternity leave.

Caldwalder Announcement: Stability Or Concern? — See Also

They Just Appointed A Co-Managing Partner: They aren't interested in mergers. For now.

Don't Mess With Texas: They want to cut the ABA out of their accreditation processes.

Kavanaugh Greenlit ICE Using Racial Profiling: How much further is the court willing to go?

James Comey's Lawyer Actually Knows What He’s Doing: Should be a strong defense against a prosecution that doesn't even know what they signed.

Donna Adelson Hail Mary Misses The Mark: Blaming TikTok won't get her out of sentencing.

This Week In Legal Ethics: Judicial tech duty, AI fines, and more!