{"id":107911,"date":"2025-02-07T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/morning-docket-02-07-25\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T15:02:33","slug":"morning-docket-02-07-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/07\/morning-docket-02-07-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 02.07.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Deal lawyers earning some vacation time next week as they billed like crazy to get mergers filed by today to avoid new rules. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/companies-wary-new-us-rule-scramble-file-mergers-by-friday-lawyers-say-2025-02-06\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Despite court orders, the federal hiring freeze hangs over everything and agencies are halting law school recruiting. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/trump-hiring-freeze-has-agencies-ditching-law-school-recruiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Supreme Court refuses Trump request to halt pending environmental cases because, unlike Trump, they understand that they can do a lot more damage to environmental law by issuing decisions. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/02\/06\/supreme-court-denies-trumps-request-to-pause-pending-environmental-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Reagan judge has harsh words for Trump administration\u2019s birthright citizenship stunt. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2294227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* That case is one many sparked by Trump\u2019s executive order push. If you\u2019re looking for a resource to compile all those dockets in one place\u2026 this is your answer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtwatch.news\/p\/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Courtwatch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Using firm credit card to get wine delivered to the house seems like a wellness expense, no? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/office-manager-used-law-firms-credit-card-get-wine-home-delivered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* If you had any doubts about the lawlessness of the Federal Circuit\u2019s approach to Judge Newman, remember they\u2019re refusing to release documents about their decision even though <em>Newman<\/em> is the one asking for the release.  [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/02\/07\/dc-circuit-keeps-docs-in-judge-newmans-misconduct-proceedings-sealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/morning-docket-02-07-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 02.07.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Deal lawyers earning some vacation time next week as they billed like crazy to get mergers filed by today to avoid new rules. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/companies-wary-new-us-rule-scramble-file-mergers-by-friday-lawyers-say-2025-02-06\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Despite court orders, the federal hiring freeze hangs over everything and agencies are halting law school recruiting. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/trump-hiring-freeze-has-agencies-ditching-law-school-recruiting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Supreme Court refuses Trump request to halt pending environmental cases because, unlike Trump, they understand that they can do a lot more damage to environmental law by issuing decisions. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/02\/06\/supreme-court-denies-trumps-request-to-pause-pending-environmental-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Reagan judge has harsh words for Trump administration\u2019s birthright citizenship stunt. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2294227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* That case is one many sparked by Trump\u2019s executive order push. If you\u2019re looking for a resource to compile all those dockets in one place\u2026 this is your answer. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtwatch.news\/p\/lawsuits-related-to-trump-admin-executive-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Courtwatch<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Using firm credit card to get wine delivered to the house seems like a wellness expense, no? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/office-manager-used-law-firms-credit-card-get-wine-home-delivered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* If you had any doubts about the lawlessness of the Federal Circuit\u2019s approach to Judge Newman, remember they\u2019re refusing to release documents about their decision even though <em>Newman<\/em> is the one asking for the release.  [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/nationallawjournal\/2025\/02\/07\/dc-circuit-keeps-docs-in-judge-newmans-misconduct-proceedings-sealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">National Law Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Deal lawyers earning some vacation time next week as they billed like crazy to get mergers filed by today to avoid new rules. [Reuters] * Despite court orders, the federal hiring freeze hangs over everything and agencies are halting law school recruiting. [Bloomberg Law News] * Supreme Court refuses Trump request to halt pending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/burnout-isXDjK.jpeg?fit=2120%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}