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Some Law Firms Got Paid, Others Still Waiting By The Mailbox– See Generally

We Ran The Numbers So You Can Feel Worse: The annual taxonomy of which law firms successfully converted billable hours into generational wealth confirms that yes, some firms are very, very rich.

That Trump Check Is NOT In The Mail: Trump owes over a million in unpaid legal bills. Who could have predicted this except for everybody?

Ethics CLE Bingo: Attorney tells opposing counsel that they'll "burn in hell" for, checks notes, representing the family of a missing child.

A Different Kind Of Briefs: In a career pivot, a former adult film star has joined the legal profession.

The Passion Of The Coup Planner: John Eastman, disbarred coup-memo author, has upgraded his grievance narrative from "political persecution" to full messianic complex.

The 80 Million Dollar Man: Kirkland opens the checkbook to nab Wachtell rainmaker.

Man Who Helped Pave Highway Worried About Lack Of Guardrails: Former Trump lawyer fears that no one in the current administration appears to understand constitutional norms. Thanks for showing up late to the party.

Sir, This Is An Advice Column: Jordan Rothman has thoughts about attorney text message etiquette, and those thoughts are essentially "don't."

Can A Supreme Court Justice Just Leave Oral Arguments For Cancun?: Senate Republicans announced their readiness to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice if needed, and Ted Cruz appears to be a frontrunner.

Law School Faculties Discover Institutional Credibility, Slightly Late: A coalition of law professors has written to warn the ABA that gutting its diversity accreditation standard will damage its reputation, which is a newsflash the institution needed several months ago.

Is This A Legal Argument Or A Sermon? — See Also

Lawyer Tells Attorneys They Will Burn In Hell: Don't remember covering that in law school.

A Lesson In Transferable Skills: Former adult movie actress passes the bar.

Trump Allegiance And Owing Money Go Hand In Hand: Time for this Trump PAC to pay up!

Do You Know The Super Rich Firms?: Here they are!

Ty Cobb Says The Guardrails Are Gone: Who is taking advantage of the President's weaknesses?

For Some Reason Sotomayor Is The Only One Apologizing — See Also

Justice Says Sorry For Accurately Describing Kavanaugh's Pro-Racial-Profiling Opinion: He's yet to apologize for penning the damned thing.

You Can't Just Call Renovations A "National Security Necessity": The administration's ballroom plan has two left feet.

Looking For The Best Summer Associate Programs?: Look no further!

The T14 Is Dead. Long Live The T14: People will still use the term even if the data tells them otherwise.

Dicking Around Is Not A Crime: The only peace disturbance was arresting a protesting grandma!

What A Horrible Time To Show Support: DLA Piper contributed to Eric Swalwell's campaign after the rape allegations went public.

Talk About Failing Upward — See Also

Ted Cruz, Supreme Court Justice?: One hell of a promotion for being annoying to work with!

How Much Is Your Loyalty To Your Firm Worth?: Probably less than $80M!

The Rich Really Do Get Richer: The #1 firm raked in $10.556 billion in gross revenue!

Where Would You Like To Work?: This quality of life ranking should help you narrow down your options.

That's A Lot Of Judicial Firings: The Trump administration has fired over 100 immigration judges so far.

It Isn't What You Know, It's How You Think: Conservative judges are hiring clerks before 1L grades are in if their politics align.

The Verdict Is In — See Also

DLA Piper Wins Workplace Discrimination Suit: Guess juries don't like mistakes in work product either.

A Challenger Approaches!: A freshly merged firm will break into the top 20.

All's Well That Settles Well: Troutman Pepper settles $35M racial discrimination suit.

Clearing Up The Myths About Mythos: Read this before you panic. You can panic once you're done.

Looking For Who’s Who In California?: These are the top Biglaw firms in the state.

Now That The Lawsuit Is Over, Want Me To Lead? — See Also

Professor Applies To Be Dean At School His Agency Investigated: Is this a strong application or an attempt at strong-arming?

Here's The Best Of DC!: How does your firm compare to the best Biglaw firms in the region?

There's A New Boutique In Town: Liu Shur Kravis make their mark on the DC scene.

State Judges Are Arming Up: Threats are pushing judges to take safety in their own hands.

Welcome Back From Disability! Now Collect Your Things: K&L Gates gets hit with a hostile work environment suit.

Yale Chokes Back Tears To Declare There’s No Shame In Second — See Generally

Yale Fail: Yale's two-decade stranglehold on the No. 1 law school ranking ends in a rankings shakeup. Well, at least they have JD Vance -- another famous second banana!

Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out: Pam Bondi's tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar disciplinary investigation, unless Florida invents another reason to absolve Bondi of accountability for her actions.

Epstein, Who?: Meanwhile, Bondi hopes to use her firing to get out of explaining the Epstein files to Congress.

The Annual "Which Gilded Cage Is Most Prestigious" Survey: Vault again ranks the 100 most prestigious law firms in America.

Trolls Gonna Troll: Law school Federalist Society chapter invites Amy Wax to share her thoughts about the problem with women and minorities.

Diploma With A Two-Drink Minimum: Georgetown Law replaces its graduation gala with a school happy hour and many students aren't happy.

Time Is Relative, Especially On A Timesheet: Lawyer bills more hours than exist in a calendar day, professional hilarity ensues.

The More It Smiles, The More You Should Worry: Legal AI tools optimized for user satisfaction are also the ones most likely to confidently hallucinate a fake circuit court opinion.

The USFL Never Died, It Just Became Federal Policy: Trump deploys the DOJ against the NFL over grievances that predate most of his current staff, because using the justice system as a personal grudge machine apparently has no statute of limitations.

The Pentagon's Legal Battles Going About As Well As Iran: The Defense Department benchslapped over press policy.

Can’t Take A Dick Joke — See Also

Cops Arrest Woman For Protesting While Wearing A Penis Costume: Can't believe the prosecution took this case!

Regional Excellence: Check out Vault’s regional ranking of firms.

Justice Sotomayor Tells Law Students To Master AI: What will be the consequences of that mastery?

In Other News, People Still Care About Amy Wax: She got invited to speak by Cornell's FedSoc chapter.

$35M Is A Lot Of Money!: WilmerHale is facing public scrutiny over a bill that has some wild pay jumps and logged hours.

Lawyers Are Bad At Math, But Come On — See Also

Turns Out You Can Squeeze Too Much Out Of A Day: Australian lawyer billed over 31 hours for a day of work.

The Best Firms In The City That Never Sleeps: See the best of the Big Apple!

'Super Drunk' Judge Pleads No Contest: He's set to be sentenced on May 13th.

Like Being Fit For The Job, But Different!: ABA hands down their first unqualified judge designation to this round of Trump nominees.

Freak-Off King Fights For Reduced Sentence: His team argues the judge factored in extra time for behavior he was acquitted of.

These Biglaw Firms Are At The Top Of Prestige List — See Also

Did Your Firm Make The Top 100?: Read this and find out!

Goodbye And Good Riddance: Judge known for handcuffing a 13-year-old girl in courtroom retires.

From Prison To Hollywood: Michael Avenatti moved to halfway house until September 2028.

One More Reason To Hate Exams: UC Berkeley law students have some problems with the Electronic Bluebook software.

Firing Won't Void The Visit To Congress!: Pam Bondi is trying to squirm out of testifying.

Yale Law Has Fallen — See Also

Not Very Far, But It Still Counts!: Read the newest law school rankings here.

How Much Do Rankings Actually Matter Though?: Legal academia shares their thoughts.

Losing And Winning Go Hand In Hand: Pam Bondi wins ATL's disbar bracket!

Jones Day Should Have Bumped Up Cybersecurity: The Biglaw firm acknowledges a cyber attack.

Temple Law Students Can Do Without ICE: They're demanding their administration keep ICE off campus.

Sucks You Got Fired, It’s Saturday Night! — See Also

Pam Bondi's Firing Gets The SNL Treatment: The Dow won't stop the humor!

Who Will Replace Bondi?: Expect to see more of Jeanine, Alina, and Harmeet.

Georgetown Law Students Aren't Looking Forward To Graduation: Hundreds are petitioning the school's proposed changes.

More Bar Exam Takers Are Getting Extended Time: Is it because of increased access to diagnoses or are people paying for more time?

Have Your Sights Set On Government Work?: These are the schools you need to go to!

Trump Crashes Out At Supreme Court — See Generally

Born Loser: Donald Trump took the unprecedented step of sitting in as the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the challenge to the administration's executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship. He bailed long before the argument ended once even he could see his case was totally cooked.

You Can't Fix Stupid, But You Can Quote-Tweet It: Justice Jackson asked a hypothetical about stealing a wallet in Japan to -- a hypothetical to explore the various meanings of being subject to jurisdiction -- and kicked a hornets' nest of social media racists questioning her legal credentials from their mom's basement.

Check Your Cites: In its attempt to rewrite birthright citizenship, the administration cited Confederate officer and segregation advocate Alexander Porter Morse as an authority -- a reminder that not every supporting citation is a good idea.

Contempt Of Court, IT Edition: A Texas judge threw an IT worker out of his courtroom for the crime of diagnosing a non-existent audio problem. And then somehow the story kept getting crazier.

Clerk And Awe: Susman Godfrey bumped its federal clerkship signing bonus to $180,000, with $200K for multiple clerkships, joining Hueston Hennigan at the top of the market and making the rest of Biglaw's offers look like a participation trophy.

Bye Bye Bondi: Trump canned his Attorney General, describing her next move as "transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector" -- which is somehow even more brutal than the Kristi Noem treatment, where at least Trump bothered to invent a fake new government position.

Portrait Of A Lady In A Dumpster Fire: Bondi's official portrait was almost immediately spotted in the garbage at DOJ.

Will The Real Bloated Shady Please Stand Up: Trump's legal team argued in the January 6 civil case that, if you think about it, the president is basically like a rapper whose concert gets out of hand -- and Judge Mehta methodically dismantled the analogy.

It Shouldn’t Be That Hard To Understand This — See Also

Japan Theft Hypothetical Flies Over Heads Of Right Wing Grifters: Proving you can't just steal abroad is a great "subject to jurisdiction" example.

Leave Your License At The Door: Don't just take Bondi's job, take her license too!

Talk About Taking Out The Trash: Bondi's former co-workers IMMEDIATELY threw her work portrait in the trashcan.

Colbert Joins In On The Fun: Lot of black ink in the punchline.

Let The Jury Decide: DLA Piper taken to court in maternity leave discrimination suit.

The President: Convicted Felon And…Rapper? — See Also

Trump Team Fights Incitement Charge By Invoking The Spirit Of Hip-Hop: He made sure to imagine all hypothetical rappers were White.

And There Goes Pam Bondi: Wow, a member of The Trump Team getting kicked out when they're not useful anymore? Quick, check the Dow!

Ty Cobb States The Obvious: He thinks its time to invoke the 25th amendment.

Once, Twice, Five Times A Prosecutorial Error: Deborah Leslie got caught citing cases that didn't exist to prevent a murder retrial.