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How Are AI-Equipped Associates Spending Their Time?

How Are AI-Equipped Associates Spending Their Time?

Everyone seems to agree that AI gets rid of rote work. But what that means for recruitment, development, and the actual work being done seems to be up for debate.       Everyone seems to agree that AI gets rid of rote work. But what that means for recruitment,...

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How The Onion Made Alex Jones Cry

How The Onion Made Alex Jones Cry

Last week, The Onion announced that it wasn’t going to wait for courts in Texas to unlock the Infowars IP. “The new InfoWars will livestream every Thursday at 8 p.m. this summer across any platform you watch video,” the company’s CEO Ben Collins said on social media....

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Quinn Emanuel Gives Pro Bono Its Own Bonus Credit

Quinn Emanuel Gives Pro Bono Its Own Bonus Credit

Quinn Emanuel has long had a complicated relationship with associate compensation and the levers attached to it. The firm’s 2,100-hour floor to access market-rate bonuses is above average, and through the years, the firm has played with the requirements for associates...

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Attorney Turns In License After Lazy AI Lawyering

Attorney Turns In License After Lazy AI Lawyering

“Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI” stories usually have a point and laugh, “How could they be so stupid?!” vibe to them, but this one feels more like a an unexpected retirement nobody bothered to plan a party for. After decades of lawyering, it isn’t uncommon for lawyers...

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The Other Side Of The Partner Pay Gap — See Also

The Other Side Of The Partner Pay Gap — See Also

Mid-Year Check Ins Are Coming: Time for some partners to double down or expect a pay cut. Mistaken AI Stenographer Almost Got A Suspect An Attorney: He came close to invoking the right to an attorney, yet landed so far. Attorney Turns In License After AI Errors: Kind...

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The DOJ’s Slush Fund Fallout — See Generally

The DOJ’s Slush Fund Fallout — See Generally

Ain’t No Government Service Like Self-Service: The Senate-confirmed DOJ official tasked with selling the slush fund to Congress, quietly tried to recuse himself from that work so he could file his own personal claim against the fund. Bar Tab Comes Due:  Associate...

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Happy Juneteenth! — See Also

Happy Juneteenth! — See Also

Is Your Firm Observing The Holiday?: Be sure to let us know! Trump Nominates His Own Lawyer To Be A Top Federal Prosecutor: The Sullivan & Cromwell partner’s cozying up with Trump is paying off. SCOTUS Term Limit Discourse Goes Mainstream?: Progressives favor...

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Arbitration Might Not Make Sense For Small Businesses

Arbitration Might Not Make Sense For Small Businesses

(Image via Getty)Most lawyers instinctively suggest that clients insert arbitration clauses into all kinds of contracts. This is usually because arbitration is much more private than litigation, and, depending on a number of factors, arbitration can take a lot less...

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Supreme Court Takes Center Stage In Midterm Election

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A new Democratic attack ad targeting Senator Susan Collins goes after her support of which judicial nominee? Hint: The ad spot focuses on a recent statement by Collins noting that she does not regret...

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Legal Tech & Marketing Issue COMING SOON

Coming October 2026 Legal Tech & Marketing Special Issue Attorney at Law Magazine has opened submissions for its all-digital issue featuring the leaders of the legal marketing and legal tech industries. Want to Participate? Complete the form below or contact us at...

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Preparing For Witness Preparation

How do you prepare a witness to testify? Sam Davidoff says there's one seemingly obvious but critical thing you need to do before prep day. Here's how he prepares to prep. The post Preparing For Witness Preparation appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law...

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How To Build An AI Prompt Library For Your Legal Team

How To Build An AI Prompt Library For Your Legal Team

A prompt can only be as powerful as the system it runs on. Connected to your contracts, playbooks, and workflows, a precise prompt does something a general-purpose tool cannot — it doesn’t just generate text, it triggers action. The prompt and the platform multiply...

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Does AI Give Male Lawyers Better Resumes?

Does AI Give Male Lawyers Better Resumes?

Yesterday, a fascinating thread by Jen Horsburgh described her recent experience using AI to update her resume. After asking Google’s Gemini to clean up her resume, she ran it again under her a man’s name, and watched the model mechanically rewrite the same career...

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Federal Judges Gone Wild

Above the Law’s Top 50 Law School rankings are out and a new school tops the list. But a number of other high prestige law schools have slipped out of the top 10… and it’s mostly a matter of cost. Meanwhile, we have two federal judges out of control. Judge Ryan Nelson...

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Diddy On Track For Even Less Prison Time

Diddy On Track For Even Less Prison Time

The freakiest thing about Sean Combs’s sentencing is that his projected time in prison keeps going down. At one point there was speculation that he’d be spending the rest of his life behind bars. His high-profile legal team managed to get that time down to about a...

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More Raises! — See Also

Warren LLP Matches The Milbank Salary Scale: The firm is rewarding their associates handsomely! Yetter Coleman Milbank Matches And Is Looking For Clerks: The judicial clerkship bonus is up to $145,000! Using AI To Work On Your Biglaw Resume?: LLM black boxes may spit...

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Luigi Mangione Will Mount Psychiatric Defense, Judge Reveals

Luigi Mangione Will Mount Psychiatric Defense, Judge Reveals

Mangione's defense team served a notice of intent back in September, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro said. Carro said he was unsealing the record relating to that litigation.       Mangione's defense team served a notice of intent back in September,...

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As Top Pay Rises, Plenty of Partners See Cuts

As Top Pay Rises, Plenty of Partners See Cuts

The need to allocate a law firm's profits more efficiently has increased as rival firms continue to lure talented partners for larger sums of money.       The need to allocate a law firm's profits more efficiently has increased as rival firms continue to lure talented...

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Blanche Is In Hot Water — See Also

Cold Truth Coming From The NYT: Their editorial board says Todd Blanche isn’t fit for office. Honestly, Nevermind: DOJ lawyer still gets hit with ethics complaint for trying to capitalize off the failed slush fund. Mind Your Networking: Here are some tips for making...

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The Biglaw Firm Tapped To Take SpaceX Public

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Biglaw firm led the SpaceX IPO, valued at $75 billion it was the largest IPO in history? Hint: More than 60 attorneys at the firm across multiple practice areas, including capital markets,...

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