{"id":123249,"date":"2025-06-18T06:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/morning-docket-06-18-25\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T06:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:28:51","slug":"morning-docket-06-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/morning-docket-06-18-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 06.18.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Partners who <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/bevy-of-willkie-partners-depart-for-biglaw-firm-that-will-actually-stand-up-for-the-rule-of-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bailed on Willkie<\/a> leave no doubt about the motivation, publicly calling out the firm\u2019s \u201cgrave mistake.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/06\/18\/as-willkie-exits-grow-associates-are-publicly-criticizing-trump-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Elon Musk sues New York over law requiring social media companies to publicly disclose if they\u2019re even trying to moderate content. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g8vy2n3dko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s a day that ends in \u201cy\u201d so Paul Weiss lost more partners over its Trump deal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-bleeds-more-partners-to-spinoff-firm-dunn-isaacson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge strikes down administration\u2019s performative transgender passport policy. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-judge-blocks-trump-passport-policy-targeting-transgender-people-2025-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Florida AG held in contempt. There\u2019s a certain <em>former<\/em> Florida AG who could be next. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2354680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Time to boot the billable hour. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2025\/06\/17\/legal-tech-gc-turned-ceo-says-its-high-time-to-boot-the-billable-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Corporate Counsel<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Disciplinary charges for judge over taking too long to make decisions. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/retired-justice-faces-disciplinary-charges-for-taking-too-long-to-decide-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/morning-docket-06-18-25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 06.18.25<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Partners who <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/06\/bevy-of-willkie-partners-depart-for-biglaw-firm-that-will-actually-stand-up-for-the-rule-of-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bailed on Willkie<\/a> leave no doubt about the motivation, publicly calling out the firm\u2019s \u201cgrave mistake.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2025\/06\/18\/as-willkie-exits-grow-associates-are-publicly-criticizing-trump-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Elon Musk sues New York over law requiring social media companies to publicly disclose if they\u2019re even trying to moderate content. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4g8vy2n3dko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">BBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* It\u2019s a day that ends in \u201cy\u201d so Paul Weiss lost more partners over its Trump deal. [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-bleeds-more-partners-to-spinoff-firm-dunn-isaacson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge strikes down administration\u2019s performative transgender passport policy. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-judge-blocks-trump-passport-policy-targeting-transgender-people-2025-06-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Florida AG held in contempt. There\u2019s a certain <em>former<\/em> Florida AG who could be next. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2354680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Time to boot the billable hour. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/corpcounsel\/2025\/06\/17\/legal-tech-gc-turned-ceo-says-its-high-time-to-boot-the-billable-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Corporate Counsel<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Disciplinary charges for judge over taking too long to make decisions. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/retired-justice-faces-disciplinary-charges-for-taking-too-long-to-decide-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Partners who bailed on Willkie leave no doubt about the motivation, publicly calling out the firm\u2019s \u201cgrave mistake.\u201d [American Lawyer] * Elon Musk sues New York over law requiring social media companies to publicly disclose if they\u2019re even trying to moderate content. [BBC] * It\u2019s a day that ends in \u201cy\u201d so Paul Weiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123250,"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-123249","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\/06\/GettyImages-185324851-scaled-Kr5MPB.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123249","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=123249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}