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DOJ Feels The Squeeze As DHS’s Courtroom Pain Sponge

DOJ Feels The Squeeze As DHS’s Courtroom Pain Sponge

It’s not every day that a federal judge threatens to hold the US government in contempt. But yesterday it happened three times. “The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again...

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Lying Has Consequences, Feds — See Also

Lying Has Consequences, Feds — See Also

Liars Keep Losing In Court: Judges keep catching federal officers with their pants on fire. These Aren’t The Lawyers You’ve Been Looking For: OpenAI helps shut down fake law empire. When Mardi Gras Turns Violent: Shia LeBeouf gets hit with two charges of battery and a...

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Legal AI: What Government Agencies Need To Consider

Legal AI: What Government Agencies Need To Consider

It’s an understatement to call this time exciting. But it can also be bewildering. With new AI offerings popping up every week, how can government professionals decide which ones are worth their time? Our friends at Filevine created this guide to answer these...

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The Human Cost Of Our Broken Justice System

In this episode of The Jabot Podcast, I sit down with public defender, reform advocate, and author Emily Galvin Almanza to discuss her new book The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender’s Search for Justice in America. Emily shares her...

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Oregon Jury Awards Record $242M To 16 Wildfire Victims

Oregon Jury Awards Record $242M To 16 Wildfire Victims

Wednesday's verdict, which is expected to increase to $305 million when doubling economic damages under Oregon law and adding a 25% multiplier for punitive damages, is the 16th trial against PacifiCorp.       Wednesday's verdict, which is expected to increase to $305...

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Gimme An ‘A’! Gimme An ‘I’!

Gimme An ‘A’! Gimme An ‘I’!

Given the recent gyrations in the markets, it’s no wonder that people are jittery about the effects (past, present, and future) of AI in our profession. True, we are not the only profession that is nervous about AI’s potential to completely reset our landscape. Jobs...

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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

How Appealing Weekly Roundup

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “Judge Vows to End Trump Administration’s Noncompliance ‘One Way or...

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Morning Docket: 02.27.26

* Anthropic rejects Defense Department ultimatum to rewrite their contract and remove guardrails or face potentially devastating retaliation. [Axios] * Bill Clinton due to testify about Epstein after Hillary’s deposition devolved into Pizzagate and UFOs. [Reuters] *...

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Law Firm Disrupted: The Limitations on Following the Money

Law Firm Disrupted: The Limitations on Following the Money

Are some legal markets at risk of being oversaturated as Big Law moves in? At this point, there appears to be no shortage of work to go around in some growing markets in the U.S., but a limited talent pool could pose problems down the road.       Are some legal...

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Tom Goldstein Goes Bust

Yesterday, a federal jury in Maryland convicted the SCOTUSblog co-founder on 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial befitting the wild indictment we covered last January. After celebrity testimony and constitutional showdowns, Goldstein’s trial ends with convictions...

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Too Good To Be True — See Also

Too Good To Be True — See Also

William Christopher Swett Gets Charged With A Lot Of Fraud: No relation, of course. Maurene Comey Makes Partner: The administration’s brain drain lets Biglaw snag major talent! Tom Goldstein Convicted On 12 Of 16 Counts: Can’t win ’em all. Abrego Garcia Still Getting...

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Maurene Comey Takes On New Role As Partner At Law Firm

Maurene Comey Takes On New Role As Partner At Law Firm

For all of the administration’s big talk of meritocracy coming back to put the people who actually deserve the jobs in power, there’s been a lot of incompetency at the helm. Planes falling out the sky, repeated failures to indict pedophiles — let alone a sandwich —...

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JFK Conspiracy Goes All The Way To Biglaw

The Warren Commission brought together a number of prominent lawyers– from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Covington alum Senator John Sherman Cooper — to investigate the Kennedy assassination, but who would be the only one enshrined in the name of a current elite Biglaw...

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Mental Health Days Are Not Uncommon In Biglaw

Mental Health Days Are Not Uncommon In Biglaw

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to a 2023 survey by mental health solutions provider Unmind, The State of Wellbeing in Law, what percentage of respondents said they’ve taken at least one day off because of mental health...

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The Comedy After The Storm — See Also

Supreme Judges Banter Over Oral Argument: They’re much nicer to each other in person than in writing! It Ain’t The Size Of The Firm: 9th Circuit rules small law firms can get paid their worth too. This Wasn’t Covered In Bar Prep: New York test takers had to fight a...

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Supreme Court Airs Dirty Laundry

The Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s effort to use IEEPA to impose arbitrary tariffs across the world and in the process delivered around 170 pages of epic shade. Meanwhile, the administration informed prospective military lawyers that they’re no longer...

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The Best Law Schools For Environmental Law

The Best Law Schools For Environmental Law

For those in law school, environmental law isn’t some niche, tree-hugger elective you take to feel virtuous — it’s rapidly becoming one of the most consequential battlegrounds in the legal industry. From regulatory whiplash in Washington to high-stakes litigation over...

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SCOTUS Lawyer Puts AI to the Ultimate Oral Argument Test

SCOTUS Lawyer Puts AI to the Ultimate Oral Argument Test

This week on Legal Speak, we preview a Supreme Court Brief discussion about the promise and peril of using AI to litigate cases at the Supreme Court.       This week on Legal Speak, we preview a Supreme Court Brief discussion about the promise and peril of using AI to...

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Transatlantic Law Firm Mergers Intensify

Transatlantic law firm mergers have a long history. But the pace and scale of recent announcements have demonstrated a distinct upswing in merger activity, leading one commentator to suggest that they have evolved from early 2000s expansion efforts into a “frantic”...

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What Separates Rainmakers From Service Lawyers

What Separates Rainmakers From Service Lawyers

(Getty Images/Ezra Bailey)In this episode of “Be That Lawyer,” I sit down with Jennifer Gillman, President and Founder of Gillman Strategic Group, to break down a distinction that quietly shapes every legal career: the difference between lawyers who control their work...

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Prepare For The State Of The Union — See Also

Prepare For The State Of The Union — See Also

Tonight’s Rambling Will Be Legendary: Empty your cups and mental health listening to the President our country deserves. ABA Tells Trump To Mind His Manners: It is rude to badmouth the Court just for doing their jobs, Mr. President. Does Sharing With ChatGPT Make It...

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Recruiter’s Corner: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

“The same problems followed me after I lateralled. Every firm is the same, and maybe I should just leave the practice of law.” “I stayed at my firm because I knew I could make partner, now I can’t get out of here fast enough, but I keep getting rejected.” These two...

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Feds Sue New Jersey for Barring ICE From State Property

Feds Sue New Jersey for Barring ICE From State Property

The New Jersey suit follows others filed by the DOJ against Los Angeles, New York City and the State of New York, and the state of Minnesota, against sanctuary policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.       The New Jersey suit follows...

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