{"id":113189,"date":"2025-04-02T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/02\/fight-or-flight-the-biglaw-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:02:44","slug":"fight-or-flight-the-biglaw-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/02\/fight-or-flight-the-biglaw-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Or Flight\u2026 The Biglaw Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the Paul Weiss surrender we discussed last week, Skadden preemptively followed suit<\/a> agreeing to commit $100M in pro bono payola<\/a> to the MAGA cause. Bringing to light some embarrassing email policies in the process<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But other Biglaw firms showed a little more life, with Jenner & Block<\/a> and WilmerHale<\/a> suing the administration over its retaliatory executive orders. <\/p>\n

And a major firm announced an end to on-campus recruiting<\/a>, which seems like a bad policy for both students and the firm.<\/p>\n

The post Fight Or Flight\u2026 The Biglaw Conundrum<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Following the Paul Weiss surrender we discussed last week, Skadden preemptively followed suit<\/a> agreeing to commit $100M in pro bono payola<\/a> to the MAGA cause. Bringing to light some embarrassing email policies in the process<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But other Biglaw firms showed a little more life, with Jenner & Block<\/a> and WilmerHale<\/a> suing the administration over its retaliatory executive orders. <\/p>\n

And a major firm announced an end to on-campus recruiting<\/a>, which seems like a bad policy for both students and the firm.<\/p>\n

The post Fight Or Flight\u2026 The Biglaw Conundrum<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the Paul Weiss surrender we discussed last week, Skadden preemptively followed suit agreeing to commit $100M in pro bono payola to the MAGA cause. Bringing to light some embarrassing email policies in the process. But other Biglaw firms showed a little more life, with Jenner & Block and WilmerHale suing the administration over its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113190,"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-113189","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\/04\/strong-dog-vs-weak-dog-meme-template-full-7ea42e89-GFMuRk.webp?fit=800%2C659&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113189","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=113189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}