{"id":120426,"date":"2025-05-26T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/26\/bad-week-for-biglaw-capitulators-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T01:02:32","slug":"bad-week-for-biglaw-capitulators-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/26\/bad-week-for-biglaw-capitulators-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Week For Biglaw Capitulators \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ed. Note: We\u2019re starting a new feature, kicking off the week with a collection of top stories from the prior week. It\u2019s like our daily See Also, but for the week. So\u2026 See Generally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Weiss Lawyers Jump Ship Before It Becomes the S.S. Giuliani<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/paul-weiss-rainmakers-bolt-to-start-new-firm-free-of-trump-deal-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Top litigators leaving to form new firm free of Trump entanglements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elena Kagan Drops Brutal New Diss(ent) Track<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/elena-kagan-does-that-thing-elena-kagan-does-where-she-humiliates-the-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cBut then, today\u2019s order poses a puzzle\u201d is the constitutional  \u201cNot Like Us\u201d we needed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Kardashian Earns Right To Complain About The Cal Bar Exam Too<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/kim-kardashian-finally-graduates-from-law-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Her legal education is complete\u2026 on to the test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral Bankruptcy Loves Company<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/not-content-to-sell-out-their-own-principles-kirkland-wanted-all-of-biglaw-to-sell-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kirkland tried to herd the rest of Biglaw into its Trumpian embrace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Habeas Corpus Hocus Pocus<\/strong>: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/watch-kristi-noem-whiff-on-basic-constitutional-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noem asked to define basic legal principle and managed to make Sarah Palin look knowledgeable in the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biglaw\u2019s MAGA Pivot Gets 1 Star: \u201cWould Not Recommend\u201d<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/new-survey-results-are-in-the-legal-profession-is-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-the-biglaw-deals-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Survey finds legal industry overwhelmingly rejects firm decisions to work with Trump<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congress Demands Answers, Capitulating Firms Provide Reading List<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/trumps-biglaw-bootlickers-letters-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">When asked to explain deals with Trump, some of the firms replied by telling congressional representatives to try reading about it in American Lawyer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawyers Being Funny On Purpose?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/california-supreme-court-justice-goodwin-liu-shows-some-judges-actually-have-a-good-sense-of-humor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California Supreme Court justice cracks wise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/bad-week-for-biglaw-capitulators-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Week For Biglaw Capitulators \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: We\u2019re starting a new feature, kicking off the week with a collection of top stories from the prior week. It\u2019s like our daily See Also, but for the week. So\u2026 See Generally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Weiss Lawyers Jump Ship Before It Becomes the S.S. Giuliani<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/paul-weiss-rainmakers-bolt-to-start-new-firm-free-of-trump-deal-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Top litigators leaving to form new firm free of Trump entanglements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elena Kagan Drops Brutal New Diss(ent) Track<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/elena-kagan-does-that-thing-elena-kagan-does-where-she-humiliates-the-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cBut then, today\u2019s order poses a puzzle\u201d is the constitutional  \u201cNot Like Us\u201d we needed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Kardashian Earns Right To Complain About The Cal Bar Exam Too<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/kim-kardashian-finally-graduates-from-law-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Her legal education is complete\u2026 on to the test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moral Bankruptcy Loves Company<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/not-content-to-sell-out-their-own-principles-kirkland-wanted-all-of-biglaw-to-sell-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kirkland tried to herd the rest of Biglaw into its Trumpian embrace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Habeas Corpus Hocus Pocus<\/strong>: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/watch-kristi-noem-whiff-on-basic-constitutional-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noem asked to define basic legal principle and managed to make Sarah Palin look knowledgeable in the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biglaw\u2019s MAGA Pivot Gets 1 Star: \u201cWould Not Recommend\u201d<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/new-survey-results-are-in-the-legal-profession-is-overwhelmingly-opposed-to-the-biglaw-deals-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Survey finds legal industry overwhelmingly rejects firm decisions to work with Trump<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congress Demands Answers, Capitulating Firms Provide Reading List<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/trumps-biglaw-bootlickers-letters-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">When asked to explain deals with Trump, some of the firms replied by telling congressional representatives to try reading about it in American Lawyer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawyers Being Funny On Purpose?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/california-supreme-court-justice-goodwin-liu-shows-some-judges-actually-have-a-good-sense-of-humor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California Supreme Court justice cracks wise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/bad-week-for-biglaw-capitulators-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Week For Biglaw Capitulators \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: We\u2019re starting a new feature, kicking off the week with a collection of top stories from the prior week. It\u2019s like our daily See Also, but for the week. So\u2026 See Generally. Paul Weiss Lawyers Jump Ship Before It Becomes the S.S. Giuliani: Top litigators leaving to form new firm free of Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-120426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120426","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=120426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}