{"id":131116,"date":"2025-08-20T05:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/morning-docket-08-20-25\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:20:02","slug":"morning-docket-08-20-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/20\/morning-docket-08-20-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 08.20.25"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Clients diversifying outside counsel options after Biglaw Surrendergate. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ed Martin has taken the fact that even Senate Republicans thought he was too stupid to be a U.S. Attorney and turned it into a career harassing Trump\u2019s political grudges through the Justice Department. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration proposes taking public service loan forgiveness away from grads who work with groups that support Trans rights. [ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* New fallout from Supreme Court\u2019s haphazard rejection of Chevron<\/em>: workers have fewer legal options to hold employers accountable for enabling client harassment. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kilmar Abrego moves to drop charges based on the DOJ only prosecuting him to cover up the fact that they wrongfully sent him to a torture camp. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* FCC considering regulatory changes to deliver windfall to the commissioners\u2019 inevitable future employers. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer charged with murder. [WSMV<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 08.20.25<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Clients diversifying outside counsel options after Biglaw Surrendergate. [American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Ed Martin has taken the fact that even Senate Republicans thought he was too stupid to be a U.S. Attorney and turned it into a career harassing Trump\u2019s political grudges through the Justice Department. [NY Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Administration proposes taking public service loan forgiveness away from grads who work with groups that support Trans rights. [ABA Journal<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* New fallout from Supreme Court\u2019s haphazard rejection of Chevron<\/em>: workers have fewer legal options to hold employers accountable for enabling client harassment. [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Kilmar Abrego moves to drop charges based on the DOJ only prosecuting him to cover up the fact that they wrongfully sent him to a torture camp. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* FCC considering regulatory changes to deliver windfall to the commissioners\u2019 inevitable future employers. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Lawyer charged with murder. [WSMV<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 08.20.25<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Clients diversifying outside counsel options after Biglaw Surrendergate. [American Lawyer] * Ed Martin has taken the fact that even Senate Republicans thought he was too stupid to be a U.S. Attorney and turned it into a career harassing Trump\u2019s political grudges through the Justice Department. [NY Times] * Administration proposes taking public service loan […]<\/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-131116","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\/131116","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=131116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}