{"id":110985,"date":"2025-03-20T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/morning-docket-03-20-25\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T05:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:02:44","slug":"morning-docket-03-20-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/20\/morning-docket-03-20-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.20.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Trump administration claims it will comply with court orders\u2026 for now. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2312853\/white-house-says-it-will-obey-court-orders-but-faults-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* New executive order seeks to resegregate federal contractors. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-musk-lift-ban-on-segregated-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Nation<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DLA Piper <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/biglaw-firm-scrubs-pronouns-from-attorney-signatures-without-telling-anyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">takes diversity erasure<\/a> up a notch disbanding all minority affinity groups. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/dla-piper-disbands-minority-employee-groups-after-trump-probes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* As firms run away from diversity, it\u2019s worth remembering that Biglaw is more profitable than ever and it got there through diversity. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailyreportonline\/2025\/03\/13\/doing-well-and-doing-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daily Report<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s March Madness, so here\u2019s an interview with a law school professor with an interesting side gig as Gonzaga basketball\u2019s team chaplain. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/from-courtroom-to-courtside-gonzaga-law-prof-bryan-pham-also-serves-as-chaplain-for-basketball-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Top dealmakers ranking. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/03\/19\/the-2025-dealmakers-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Weiss fired by client in light of the firm getting crosswise with the administration. But the good news is that it\u2019s a foreign bribery case and that might not even be a crime according to the Trump DOJ. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-law-firm-paul-weiss-fired-by-client-over-trump-executive-order-2025-03-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/morning-docket-03-20-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.20.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Trump administration claims it will comply with court orders\u2026 for now. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2312853\/white-house-says-it-will-obey-court-orders-but-faults-judges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* New executive order seeks to resegregate federal contractors. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/trump-musk-lift-ban-on-segregated-facilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Nation<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* DLA Piper <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/biglaw-firm-scrubs-pronouns-from-attorney-signatures-without-telling-anyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">takes diversity erasure<\/a> up a notch disbanding all minority affinity groups. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/dla-piper-disbands-minority-employee-groups-after-trump-probes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* As firms run away from diversity, it\u2019s worth remembering that Biglaw is more profitable than ever and it got there through diversity. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/dailyreportonline\/2025\/03\/13\/doing-well-and-doing-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daily Report<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s March Madness, so here\u2019s an interview with a law school professor with an interesting side gig as Gonzaga basketball\u2019s team chaplain. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/from-courtroom-to-courtside-gonzaga-law-prof-bryan-pham-also-serves-as-chaplain-for-basketball-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Top dealmakers ranking. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/03\/19\/the-2025-dealmakers-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Paul Weiss fired by client in light of the firm getting crosswise with the administration. But the good news is that it\u2019s a foreign bribery case and that might not even be a crime according to the Trump DOJ. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-law-firm-paul-weiss-fired-by-client-over-trump-executive-order-2025-03-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Trump administration claims it will comply with court orders\u2026 for now. [Law360] * New executive order seeks to resegregate federal contractors. [The Nation] * DLA Piper takes diversity erasure up a notch disbanding all minority affinity groups. [Bloomberg Law News] * As firms run away from diversity, it\u2019s worth remembering that Biglaw is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110986,"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-110985","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\/GettyImages-1300444386-1OSFo2.jpeg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110985","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=110985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}