{"id":109669,"date":"2025-03-04T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/04\/bomb-threat-received-at-biglaw-office\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:02:38","slug":"bomb-threat-received-at-biglaw-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/04\/bomb-threat-received-at-biglaw-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Threat Received At Biglaw Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scary news this morning from Hogan Lovells, where the Washington office building received a bomb threat this morning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"890\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-04-at-9.58.07%E2%80%AFAM-890x1024.png?resize=890%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1152539\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s no indication that the threat targeted Hogan Lovells specifically as opposed to another tenant (or was made for the purpose of general criminal mayhem). As the alert notes, these threats are generally not credible, but sending everyone home is the right move not only for safety but to provide law enforcement the space needed to conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>From our perspective here at Above the Law, we\u2019re assuming someone called the firm \u201cHoLove\u201d one too many times and the comms team snapped.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-443318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Headshot-300x200.jpg?resize=192%2C128&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Headshot\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/joe-patrice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:joepatrice@abovethelaw.com\">email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephpatrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/joepatrice.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpnexecsearch.com\/josephpatrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/bomb-threat-received-at-biglaw-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bomb Threat Received At Biglaw Office<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scary news this morning from Hogan Lovells, where the Washington office building received a bomb threat this morning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-04-at-9.58.07%E2%80%AFAM-890x1024.png?resize=890%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1152539\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There\u2019s no indication that the threat targeted Hogan Lovells specifically as opposed to another tenant (or was made for the purpose of general criminal mayhem). As the alert notes, these threats are generally not credible, but sending everyone home is the right move not only for safety but to provide law enforcement the space needed to conduct a thorough investigation.<\/p>\n<p>From our perspective here at Above the Law, we\u2019re assuming someone called the firm \u201cHoLove\u201d one too many times and the comms team snapped.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-443318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/Headshot-300x200.jpg?resize=192%2C128&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Headshot\" width=\"192\" height=\"128\" title=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/author\/joe-patrice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of <a href=\"http:\/\/legaltalknetwork.com\/podcasts\/thinking-like-a-lawyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#83e9ece6f3e2f7f1eae0e6c3e2e1ecf5e6f7ebe6efe2f4ade0ecee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josephpatrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/joepatrice.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpnexecsearch.com\/josephpatrice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scary news this morning from Hogan Lovells, where the Washington office building received a bomb threat this morning. There\u2019s no indication that the threat targeted Hogan Lovells specifically as opposed to another tenant (or was made for the purpose of general criminal mayhem). As the alert notes, these threats are generally not credible, but sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109658,"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-109669","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\/03\/Headshot-300x200-PbKezI.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109669","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=109669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}