{"id":112710,"date":"2025-03-31T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/31\/morning-docket-03-31-25\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T05:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:03:13","slug":"morning-docket-03-31-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/31\/morning-docket-03-31-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 03.31.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Trump\u2019s Biglaw nominees are disclosing their finances so get ready for another round of pearl-clutching over how much lawyers makes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/trump-nominees-disclose-us-law-firm-pay-2025-03-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Startup founder guilty of convincing JPMorgan to throw away money. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2316960\/startup-founder-guilty-in-175m-jpmorgan-deal-gone-awry-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Does a firm\u2019s balance of work dictate how obsequious it will be to the administration? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/03\/31\/does-litigation-or-dealmaking-pedigree-determine-whether-firms-fightor-fall-in-line-withexecutive-actions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Mainstream media starting to call out Biglaw firms for refusing to speak up against Trump orders, which sort of defeats the purpose of keeping their heads down. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/494a061a-ddc5-43cd-a855-7ced75447cc2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Harvard Law professors rip Trump rule of law assault. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/30\/trump-harvard-law-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Axios<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cFired\u201d independent directors lose bid to be reinstated pending appeal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/fired-agency-officials-lose-attempt-at-immediate-reinstatement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Bar exam scores drop in February. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/mbe-score-drops-a-full-point-for-february-exam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/morning-docket-03-31-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 03.31.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Trump\u2019s Biglaw nominees are disclosing their finances so get ready for another round of pearl-clutching over how much lawyers makes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/government\/trump-nominees-disclose-us-law-firm-pay-2025-03-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Startup founder guilty of convincing JPMorgan to throw away money. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2316960\/startup-founder-guilty-in-175m-jpmorgan-deal-gone-awry-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Does a firm\u2019s balance of work dictate how obsequious it will be to the administration? [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/03\/31\/does-litigation-or-dealmaking-pedigree-determine-whether-firms-fightor-fall-in-line-withexecutive-actions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Mainstream media starting to call out Biglaw firms for refusing to speak up against Trump orders, which sort of defeats the purpose of keeping their heads down. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/494a061a-ddc5-43cd-a855-7ced75447cc2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Harvard Law professors rip Trump rule of law assault. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/03\/30\/trump-harvard-law-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Axios<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cFired\u201d independent directors lose bid to be reinstated pending appeal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/fired-agency-officials-lose-attempt-at-immediate-reinstatement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Bar exam scores drop in February. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/mbe-score-drops-a-full-point-for-february-exam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Trump\u2019s Biglaw nominees are disclosing their finances so get ready for another round of pearl-clutching over how much lawyers makes. [Reuters] * Startup founder guilty of convincing JPMorgan to throw away money. [Law360] * Does a firm\u2019s balance of work dictate how obsequious it will be to the administration? [American Lawyer] * Mainstream media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112711,"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-112710","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\/money-stack-bonus-chart-2022-GettyImages-1008861200-Cx4XQY.jpeg?fit=2066%2C1451&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112710","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=112710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}