{"id":142439,"date":"2026-01-22T18:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/alienating-our-affections\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T18:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:10:50","slug":"alienating-our-affections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/01\/22\/alienating-our-affections\/","title":{"rendered":"Alienating Our Affections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biglaw world continues to watch single-tier partnerships slip away with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/top-25-biglaw-firm-announces-nonequity-partnership-track-plus-enhanced-bonuses-for-associates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan &amp; Cromwell joining the income partner trend<\/a>. Will the industry have any single-tier firms left by the end of the year? Also former Senator and current Hogan Lovells lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/former-senator-turned-biglaw-lawyer-sued-for-breaking-up-bodyguards-marriage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrsten Sinema tagged with an alienation of affection tort<\/a> from her former bodyguard\u2019s soon-to-be ex-wife. Come for the bad soap opera plot, stay for the MDMA-inspired psychedelic trip allegations. Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/supreme-court-hacked-proving-its-cybersecurity-is-as-robust-as-its-ethical-code\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court got hacked<\/a>, but federal law enforcement managed, a couple years after the fact, to track down the culprit whose social media handle was \u201cihackedthegovernment.\u201d Cracker jack work all around.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/alienating-our-affections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alienating Our Affections<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Biglaw world continues to watch single-tier partnerships slip away with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/top-25-biglaw-firm-announces-nonequity-partnership-track-plus-enhanced-bonuses-for-associates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan &amp; Cromwell joining the income partner trend<\/a>. Will the industry have any single-tier firms left by the end of the year? Also former Senator and current Hogan Lovells lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/former-senator-turned-biglaw-lawyer-sued-for-breaking-up-bodyguards-marriage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrsten Sinema tagged with an alienation of affection tort<\/a> from her former bodyguard\u2019s soon-to-be ex-wife. Come for the bad soap opera plot, stay for the MDMA-inspired psychedelic trip allegations. Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/supreme-court-hacked-proving-its-cybersecurity-is-as-robust-as-its-ethical-code\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court got hacked<\/a>, but federal law enforcement managed, a couple years after the fact, to track down the culprit whose social media handle was \u201cihackedthegovernment.\u201d Cracker jack work all around.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/01\/alienating-our-affections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alienating Our Affections<\/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>The Biglaw world continues to watch single-tier partnerships slip away with Sullivan &amp; Cromwell joining the income partner trend. Will the industry have any single-tier firms left by the end of the year? Also former Senator and current Hogan Lovells lawyer Kyrsten Sinema tagged with an alienation of affection tort from her former bodyguard\u2019s soon-to-be [&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-142439","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\/142439","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=142439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}