{"id":139722,"date":"2025-12-24T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/24\/closing-out-the-year-with-mergers-and-attacks-on-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:48:08","slug":"closing-out-the-year-with-mergers-and-attacks-on-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/24\/closing-out-the-year-with-mergers-and-attacks-on-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Out The Year With Mergers And Attacks On The Rule Of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

A critical analysis of the best variety of Coca-Cola product gives way to a conversation about law this week. Cadwalader ends its tumultuous year \u2014 involving a Trump administration capitulation and a series of defections \u2014 with a big quasi-transatlantic merger<\/a> announcement with cross-Pond Hogan Lovells. Christmas came early \u2014 to the extent anyone thinks of U.S. News law school rankings as \u201cChristmas\u201d \u2014 with a prediction about the new law school pecking order<\/a>. And it looks like garbage at a time when those rankings may be more important than ever. Also, ICE appears to be publishing an enemies list?<\/a> That doesn\u2019t seem great. All that and some thoughts on Alan Dershowitz writing a new book suggesting Trump might be able to get a third term<\/a> despite the clear text of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

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A critical analysis of the best variety of Coca-Cola product gives way to a conversation about law this week. Cadwalader ends its tumultuous year \u2014 involving a Trump administration capitulation and a series of defections \u2014 with a big quasi-transatlantic merger<\/a> announcement with cross-Pond Hogan Lovells. Christmas came early \u2014 to the extent anyone thinks of U.S. News law school rankings as \u201cChristmas\u201d \u2014 with a prediction about the new law school pecking order<\/a>. And it looks like garbage at a time when those rankings may be more important than ever. Also, ICE appears to be publishing an enemies list?<\/a> That doesn\u2019t seem great. All that and some thoughts on Alan Dershowitz writing a new book suggesting Trump might be able to get a third term<\/a> despite the clear text of the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A critical analysis of the best variety of Coca-Cola product gives way to a conversation about law this week. Cadwalader ends its tumultuous year \u2014 involving a Trump administration capitulation and a series of defections \u2014 with a big quasi-transatlantic merger announcement with cross-Pond Hogan Lovells. Christmas came early \u2014 to the extent anyone thinks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139723,"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-139722","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\/12\/handshake-merger-money-finance-lhOmRB.jpg?fit=688%2C508&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139722","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=139722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}