{"id":108839,"date":"2025-02-21T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/morning-docket-02-21-25\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T14:39:23","slug":"morning-docket-02-21-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/02\/21\/morning-docket-02-21-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 02.21.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* McDermott crosses $2B mark. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/02\/20\/mcdermott-crosses-2b-in-revenue-sees-pep-best-45-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Linklaters created a legal exam to certify AI tools to provide competent legal analysis. See <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/california-bar-exam-disaster-reaches-its-offer-everyone-a-refund-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California<\/a>, it\u2019s not so hard. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/linklaters-makes-ai-sit-law-exams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Having beaten Trump soundly over and over again in the Carroll case, Roberta Kaplan launches legal challenge over attempted congestion pricing ban. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/21\/roberta-kaplan-ny-congestion-pricing-trump-lawyer-00205289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administrative law judges can now be fired at will! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-power-administrative-law-judges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The administration\u2019s continued defiance of court orders brings judge to the brink of contempt finding. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/judge-again-orders-us-unfreeze-foreign-aid-stops-short-contempt-2025-02-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Senate Dems want clarity on reports that AG Bondi misled them under oath which would be an absolutely not shocking turn of events. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/senate-democrats-ask-bondi-for-records-on-alarming-ethics-memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Spirit creditors thought they were making one deal and then it became a lot more expensive. Welcome to Spirit. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2300286\/spirit-airlines-bankruptcy-plan-approved-with-opt-outs-intact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/morning-docket-02-21-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 02.21.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* McDermott crosses $2B mark. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/02\/20\/mcdermott-crosses-2b-in-revenue-sees-pep-best-45-million\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Linklaters created a legal exam to certify AI tools to provide competent legal analysis. See <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/california-bar-exam-disaster-reaches-its-offer-everyone-a-refund-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California<\/a>, it\u2019s not so hard. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollonfriday.com\/news-content\/linklaters-makes-ai-sit-law-exams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Having beaten Trump soundly over and over again in the Carroll case, Roberta Kaplan launches legal challenge over attempted congestion pricing ban. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/21\/roberta-kaplan-ny-congestion-pricing-trump-lawyer-00205289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Administrative law judges can now be fired at will! [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-power-administrative-law-judges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* The administration\u2019s continued defiance of court orders brings judge to the brink of contempt finding. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/judge-again-orders-us-unfreeze-foreign-aid-stops-short-contempt-2025-02-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Senate Dems want clarity on reports that AG Bondi misled them under oath which would be an absolutely not shocking turn of events. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/senate-democrats-ask-bondi-for-records-on-alarming-ethics-memo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Spirit creditors thought they were making one deal and then it became a lot more expensive. Welcome to Spirit. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2300286\/spirit-airlines-bankruptcy-plan-approved-with-opt-outs-intact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* McDermott crosses $2B mark. [American Lawyer] * Linklaters created a legal exam to certify AI tools to provide competent legal analysis. See California, it\u2019s not so hard. [Roll on Friday] * Having beaten Trump soundly over and over again in the Carroll case, Roberta Kaplan launches legal challenge over attempted congestion pricing ban. 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