{"id":148882,"date":"2026-04-15T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/15\/talk-about-failing-upward-see-also\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:30:08","slug":"talk-about-failing-upward-see-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/15\/talk-about-failing-upward-see-also\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About Failing Upward \u2014 See Also"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ted Cruz, Supreme Court Justice?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-senate-is-prepared-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-justice-and-ted-cruz-might-be-the-pick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One hell of a promotion for being annoying to work with<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><strong>How Much Is Your Loyalty To Your Firm Worth?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/kirkland-lures-wachtells-top-restructuring-lawyer-with-an-80m-incentive-to-jump-ship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Probably less than $80M<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rich Really Do Get Richer<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-2026-am-law-100-is-out-and-surprise-the-rich-law-firms-got-richer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The #1 firm raked in $10.556 billion in gross revenue<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where Would You Like To Work?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/vault-quality-of-life-rankings-the-best-law-firms-to-work-for-in-america-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This quality of life ranking should help you narrow down your options<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s A Lot Of Judicial Firings<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-trump-administration-has-fired-over-100-immigration-judges-without-explanation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump administration has fired over 100 immigration judges so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It Isn\u2019t What You Know, It\u2019s How You Think<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/conservative-judges-hiring-clerks-before-1l-exams-because-ideology-is-the-only-grade-that-matters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservative judges are hiring clerks before 1L grades are in if their politics align<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/talk-about-failing-upward-see-also\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talk About Failing Upward \u2014 See Also<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ted Cruz, Supreme Court Justice?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-senate-is-prepared-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-justice-and-ted-cruz-might-be-the-pick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One hell of a promotion for being annoying to work with<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><strong>How Much Is Your Loyalty To Your Firm Worth?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/kirkland-lures-wachtells-top-restructuring-lawyer-with-an-80m-incentive-to-jump-ship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Probably less than $80M<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rich Really Do Get Richer<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-2026-am-law-100-is-out-and-surprise-the-rich-law-firms-got-richer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The #1 firm raked in $10.556 billion in gross revenue<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where Would You Like To Work?<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/vault-quality-of-life-rankings-the-best-law-firms-to-work-for-in-america-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This quality of life ranking should help you narrow down your options<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>That\u2019s A Lot Of Judicial Firings<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/the-trump-administration-has-fired-over-100-immigration-judges-without-explanation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Trump administration has fired over 100 immigration judges so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It Isn\u2019t What You Know, It\u2019s How You Think<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/conservative-judges-hiring-clerks-before-1l-exams-because-ideology-is-the-only-grade-that-matters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conservative judges are hiring clerks before 1L grades are in if their politics align<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/04\/talk-about-failing-upward-see-also\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talk About Failing Upward \u2014 See Also<\/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>Ted Cruz, Supreme Court Justice?: One hell of a promotion for being annoying to work with! How Much Is Your Loyalty To Your Firm Worth?: Probably less than $80M! The Rich Really Do Get Richer: The #1 firm raked in $10.556 billion in gross revenue! Where Would You Like To Work?: This quality of life [&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-148882","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\/148882","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=148882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}