{"id":148705,"date":"2026-04-12T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/12\/yale-chokes-back-tears-to-declare-theres-no-shame-in-second-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:51:47","slug":"yale-chokes-back-tears-to-declare-theres-no-shame-in-second-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/12\/yale-chokes-back-tears-to-declare-theres-no-shame-in-second-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Chokes Back Tears To Declare There\u2019s No Shame In Second \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yale Fail<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/end-of-an-era-yale-booted-from-no-1-spot-in-historic-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-shakeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yale\u2019s two-decade stranglehold on the No. 1 law school ranking ends in a rankings shakeup. Well, at least they have JD Vance \u2014 another famous second banana!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/congratulations-to-pam-bondi-let-the-bar-disciplinary-investigation-commence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Bondi\u2019s tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar disciplinary investigation, unless Florida invents another reason to absolve Bondi of accountability for her actions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Epstein, Who?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/pam-bondi-to-congress-new-phone-who-dis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meanwhile, Bondi hopes to use her firing to get out of explaining the Epstein files to Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Annual \u201cWhich Gilded Cage Is Most Prestigious\u201d Survey<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/vault-100-rankings-the-most-prestigious-law-firms-in-america-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vault again ranks the 100 most prestigious law firms in America.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trolls Gonna Troll<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/cornell-federalist-society-invites-white-supremacy-speaker-because-thats-what-federalist-society-chapters-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law school Federalist Society chapter invites Amy Wax to share her thoughts about the problem with women and minorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diploma With A Two-Drink Minimum<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/georgetown-law-set-to-reward-graduating-law-students-by-replacing-graduation-gala-with-a-school-happy-hour-other-unpopular-changes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown Law replaces its graduation gala with a school happy hour and many students aren\u2019t happy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Is Relative, Especially On A Timesheet<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/lawyer-bills-36-hour-day-as-einsteins-theories-meet-law-firm-management\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyer bills more hours than exist in a calendar day, professional hilarity ensues.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The More It Smiles, The More You Should Worry<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/why-helpful-legal-ai-is-often-the-least-trustworthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal AI tools optimized for user satisfaction are also the ones most likely to confidently hallucinate a fake circuit court opinion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The USFL Never Died, It Just Became Federal Policy<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/trump-sends-doj-after-nfl-to-avenge-his-own-public-humiliation-in-the-80s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump deploys the DOJ against the NFL over grievances that predate most of his current staff, because using the justice system as a personal grudge machine apparently has no statute of limitations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon\u2019s Legal Battles Going About As Well As Iran<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/defense-department-lawyering-almost-as-good-as-hegseths-pullups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Defense Department benchslapped over press policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/yale-chokes-back-tears-to-declare-theres-no-shame-in-second-see-generally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yale Chokes Back Tears To Declare There\u2019s No Shame In Second \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yale Fail<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/end-of-an-era-yale-booted-from-no-1-spot-in-historic-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-shakeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yale\u2019s two-decade stranglehold on the No. 1 law school ranking ends in a rankings shakeup. Well, at least they have JD Vance \u2014 another famous second banana!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/congratulations-to-pam-bondi-let-the-bar-disciplinary-investigation-commence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Bondi\u2019s tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar disciplinary investigation, unless Florida invents another reason to absolve Bondi of accountability for her actions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Epstein, Who?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/pam-bondi-to-congress-new-phone-who-dis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meanwhile, Bondi hopes to use her firing to get out of explaining the Epstein files to Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Annual \u201cWhich Gilded Cage Is Most Prestigious\u201d Survey<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/vault-100-rankings-the-most-prestigious-law-firms-in-america-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vault again ranks the 100 most prestigious law firms in America.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trolls Gonna Troll<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/cornell-federalist-society-invites-white-supremacy-speaker-because-thats-what-federalist-society-chapters-do\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law school Federalist Society chapter invites Amy Wax to share her thoughts about the problem with women and minorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diploma With A Two-Drink Minimum<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/georgetown-law-set-to-reward-graduating-law-students-by-replacing-graduation-gala-with-a-school-happy-hour-other-unpopular-changes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgetown Law replaces its graduation gala with a school happy hour and many students aren\u2019t happy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Is Relative, Especially On A Timesheet<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/lawyer-bills-36-hour-day-as-einsteins-theories-meet-law-firm-management\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawyer bills more hours than exist in a calendar day, professional hilarity ensues.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The More It Smiles, The More You Should Worry<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/why-helpful-legal-ai-is-often-the-least-trustworthy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal AI tools optimized for user satisfaction are also the ones most likely to confidently hallucinate a fake circuit court opinion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The USFL Never Died, It Just Became Federal Policy<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/trump-sends-doj-after-nfl-to-avenge-his-own-public-humiliation-in-the-80s\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump deploys the DOJ against the NFL over grievances that predate most of his current staff, because using the justice system as a personal grudge machine apparently has no statute of limitations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon\u2019s Legal Battles Going About As Well As Iran<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/defense-department-lawyering-almost-as-good-as-hegseths-pullups\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Defense Department benchslapped over press policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale Fail: Yale\u2019s two-decade stranglehold on the No. 1 law school ranking ends in a rankings shakeup. Well, at least they have JD Vance \u2014 another famous second banana! Feel Free To Let The Screen Door Hit You On The Way Out: Pam Bondi\u2019s tenure as Attorney General ends just in time for a bar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148706,"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-148705","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\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1464706614-scaled-4YdzbQ.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148705","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=148705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}