{"id":136370,"date":"2025-11-05T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/05\/a-riot-by-any-other-name\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:52:03","slug":"a-riot-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/05\/a-riot-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A Riot By Any Other Name\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talk about the DOJ lawyers suspended by the White House for calling January 6 a riot in a sentencing memo, and the conversation veers down a rabbit hole about the proper role of pardons. For years, the billable hour seemed like the cockroach of law firm management, but after surviving numerous brushes with death, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/law-firms-prepare-to-automate-themselves-out-of-their-own-business-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI might finally force firms to look into alternative fee structures<\/a>. And if you\u2019re in law school and thinking about serving the public interest, expect it to be a lot more expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/new-trump-rule-declares-most-public-service-work-illegal-ineligible-for-loan-forgiveness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unless your future employer is blessed by the Trump administration<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/a-riot-by-any-other-name\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Riot By Any Other Name\u2026<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about the DOJ lawyers suspended by the White House for calling January 6 a riot in a sentencing memo, and the conversation veers down a rabbit hole about the proper role of pardons. For years, the billable hour seemed like the cockroach of law firm management, but after surviving numerous brushes with death, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/law-firms-prepare-to-automate-themselves-out-of-their-own-business-model\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI might finally force firms to look into alternative fee structures<\/a>. And if you\u2019re in law school and thinking about serving the public interest, expect it to be a lot more expensive <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/new-trump-rule-declares-most-public-service-work-illegal-ineligible-for-loan-forgiveness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unless your future employer is blessed by the Trump administration<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/11\/a-riot-by-any-other-name\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Riot By Any Other Name\u2026<\/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>We talk about the DOJ lawyers suspended by the White House for calling January 6 a riot in a sentencing memo, and the conversation veers down a rabbit hole about the proper role of pardons. For years, the billable hour seemed like the cockroach of law firm management, but after surviving numerous brushes with death, [&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-136370","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\/136370","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=136370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}