{"id":150854,"date":"2026-05-10T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/10\/biglaws-inside-job-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:31:26","slug":"biglaws-inside-job-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/10\/biglaws-inside-job-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Inside Job \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DOJ\u2019s Insider Trading Case Is Basically A Vault 100 Firm Directory<\/strong>: Sidley, Latham, Goodwin, Weil, DLA Piper, Willkie, Wachtell \u2014 this indictment would be for an impressive on-campus interview schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Weiss Technically Isn\u2019t Having Layoffs, It\u2019s Just That Associates Are Leaving Very Quickly And Not By Choice<\/strong>: The firm keeps losing litigation leadership and now its \u201cperformance\u201d reviews have forced out a suspicious number of litigation associates.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Newly Combined Firm Has Also Embarked On Layoffs<\/strong>: A newly merged top-20 Biglaw firm is working through growing pains that include layoffs, which is what \u201csynergies\u201d always meant in the fine print if anyone had bothered to read past the press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Alito\u2019s Defense, The Made-Up Facts He Cited Would Have Been Convincing<\/strong>: The Supreme Court inserted fabricated factual claims into its opinion functionally striking down the Voting Rights Act.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, Remember, Stop Talking About The Emperor\u2019s Lack Of Clothes<\/strong>: Chief Justice Roberts is disappointed that everyone seems to think the Court is political just because they decided to rewrite election law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Virginia Supreme Court Rules \u2018Sure, The Text SAYS This Is Legal But What This Opinion Presupposes Is\u2026 What If It Didn\u2019t?\u2019<\/strong>: After Virginia voters approved congressional redistricting, the majority of the state supreme court spent 30 pages redefining one sentence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans Seem To Get Carded A Lot<\/strong>: Todd Blanche thinks you need ID to go to a restaurant<\/a> (this guy must really want to start eating at a private club<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Good Things Come In Small (And Midsized) Packages<\/strong>: Vault drops its annual small and midsize firm rankings.<\/a><\/p>\n

Law Students Create Content That Is More Watchable Than Anything The DOJ Filed This Week<\/strong>: The 17th annual ATL Law Revue Video Contest has a winner.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s Inside Job \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The DOJ\u2019s Insider Trading Case Is Basically A Vault 100 Firm Directory<\/strong>: Sidley, Latham, Goodwin, Weil, DLA Piper, Willkie, Wachtell \u2014 this indictment would be for an impressive on-campus interview schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Weiss Technically Isn\u2019t Having Layoffs, It\u2019s Just That Associates Are Leaving Very Quickly And Not By Choice<\/strong>: The firm keeps losing litigation leadership and now its \u201cperformance\u201d reviews have forced out a suspicious number of litigation associates.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Newly Combined Firm Has Also Embarked On Layoffs<\/strong>: A newly merged top-20 Biglaw firm is working through growing pains that include layoffs, which is what \u201csynergies\u201d always meant in the fine print if anyone had bothered to read past the press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Alito\u2019s Defense, The Made-Up Facts He Cited Would Have Been Convincing<\/strong>: The Supreme Court inserted fabricated factual claims into its opinion functionally striking down the Voting Rights Act.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, Remember, Stop Talking About The Emperor\u2019s Lack Of Clothes<\/strong>: Chief Justice Roberts is disappointed that everyone seems to think the Court is political just because they decided to rewrite election law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Virginia Supreme Court Rules \u2018Sure, The Text SAYS This Is Legal But What This Opinion Presupposes Is\u2026 What If It Didn\u2019t?\u2019<\/strong>: After Virginia voters approved congressional redistricting, the majority of the state supreme court spent 30 pages redefining one sentence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Republicans Seem To Get Carded A Lot<\/strong>: Todd Blanche thinks you need ID to go to a restaurant<\/a> (this guy must really want to start eating at a private club<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Good Things Come In Small (And Midsized) Packages<\/strong>: Vault drops its annual small and midsize firm rankings.<\/a><\/p>\n

Law Students Create Content That Is More Watchable Than Anything The DOJ Filed This Week<\/strong>: The 17th annual ATL Law Revue Video Contest has a winner.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DOJ\u2019s Insider Trading Case Is Basically A Vault 100 Firm Directory: Sidley, Latham, Goodwin, Weil, DLA Piper, Willkie, Wachtell \u2014 this indictment would be for an impressive on-campus interview schedule. Paul Weiss Technically Isn\u2019t Having Layoffs, It\u2019s Just That Associates Are Leaving Very Quickly And Not By Choice: The firm keeps losing litigation leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150855,"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-150854","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\/05\/GettyImages-1227562488-620x413-9I5j7V.jpg?fit=620%2C413&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150854","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=150854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}