{"id":133801,"date":"2025-09-24T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/24\/nothin-says-lovin-like-a-benchslap\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:45","slug":"nothin-says-lovin-like-a-benchslap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/24\/nothin-says-lovin-like-a-benchslap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothin\u2019 Says Lovin\u2019 Like A Benchslap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perkins Coie cut ties with an attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/perkins-coie-fires-lawyer-over-this-charlie-kirk-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over Charlie Kirk comments on social media<\/a>. The remarks were measured and reasonable, but the firm is still fighting the Trump administration in court and \u2014 seemingly \u2014 does not want any distractions or mere appearance of bias. But is that a worthy excuse? A Pillsbury partner received a benchslapping over what the judge considered <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/biglaw-partner-benchslapped-over-unchecked-entitlement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unchecked entitlement<\/a>. A Biglaw partner? Entitled? No! Also, a law school responds to the new federal loan caps with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/this-law-school-is-offering-guaranteed-scholarships-to-all-incoming-students-thanks-to-new-student-loan-caps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guaranteed scholarships<\/a> to cover the gap. Is this the start of a trend?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/nothin-says-lovin-like-a-benchslap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothin\u2019 Says Lovin\u2019 Like A Benchslap<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perkins Coie cut ties with an attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/perkins-coie-fires-lawyer-over-this-charlie-kirk-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over Charlie Kirk comments on social media<\/a>. The remarks were measured and reasonable, but the firm is still fighting the Trump administration in court and \u2014 seemingly \u2014 does not want any distractions or mere appearance of bias. But is that a worthy excuse? A Pillsbury partner received a benchslapping over what the judge considered <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/biglaw-partner-benchslapped-over-unchecked-entitlement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unchecked entitlement<\/a>. A Biglaw partner? Entitled? No! Also, a law school responds to the new federal loan caps with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/this-law-school-is-offering-guaranteed-scholarships-to-all-incoming-students-thanks-to-new-student-loan-caps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">guaranteed scholarships<\/a> to cover the gap. Is this the start of a trend?<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/09\/nothin-says-lovin-like-a-benchslap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nothin\u2019 Says Lovin\u2019 Like A Benchslap<\/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>Perkins Coie cut ties with an attorney over Charlie Kirk comments on social media. The remarks were measured and reasonable, but the firm is still fighting the Trump administration in court and \u2014 seemingly \u2014 does not want any distractions or mere appearance of bias. But is that a worthy excuse? A Pillsbury partner received [&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-133801","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\/133801","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=133801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}