{"id":152488,"date":"2026-05-20T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/dont-let-the-client-write-the-brief-as-a-treat\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:45:13","slug":"dont-let-the-client-write-the-brief-as-a-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/20\/dont-let-the-client-write-the-brief-as-a-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let The Client Write The Brief As A Treat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We keep learning more from Biglaw\u2019s insider trading scandal, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/the-wachtell-insider-trading-co-conspirator-has-been-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identity of the Wachtell co-conspirator revealed<\/a>. How did this scheme succeed for so long? The Department of Justice continued its battle to allow Trump to unilaterally rip up national monuments with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/looks-like-trump-dictated-another-barely-coherent-ballroom-brief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another barely coherent brief<\/a>. They may say \u201cthe customer is always right,\u201d but when it comes to litigation, turning over the briefing to the client can present serious ethical issues. Which might be why this DOJ is fighting so hard <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/doj-sues-d-c-bar-for-holding-trump-lawyers-to-ethical-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to punish disciplinary authorities<\/a> for seeking to enforce ethical rules against government lawyers. And one prestigious litigation firm earns praise from the judge for allowing a young associate to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/a-federal-judge-praises-susman-godfrey-for-letting-a-young-associate-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take on key responsibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/dont-let-the-client-write-the-brief-as-a-treat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Let The Client Write The Brief As A Treat<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We keep learning more from Biglaw\u2019s insider trading scandal, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/the-wachtell-insider-trading-co-conspirator-has-been-identified\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">identity of the Wachtell co-conspirator revealed<\/a>. How did this scheme succeed for so long? The Department of Justice continued its battle to allow Trump to unilaterally rip up national monuments with <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/looks-like-trump-dictated-another-barely-coherent-ballroom-brief\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another barely coherent brief<\/a>. They may say \u201cthe customer is always right,\u201d but when it comes to litigation, turning over the briefing to the client can present serious ethical issues. Which might be why this DOJ is fighting so hard <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/doj-sues-d-c-bar-for-holding-trump-lawyers-to-ethical-rules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to punish disciplinary authorities<\/a> for seeking to enforce ethical rules against government lawyers. And one prestigious litigation firm earns praise from the judge for allowing a young associate to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/a-federal-judge-praises-susman-godfrey-for-letting-a-young-associate-cook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take on key responsibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/05\/dont-let-the-client-write-the-brief-as-a-treat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Let The Client Write The Brief As A Treat<\/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>We keep learning more from Biglaw\u2019s insider trading scandal, with the identity of the Wachtell co-conspirator revealed. How did this scheme succeed for so long? The Department of Justice continued its battle to allow Trump to unilaterally rip up national monuments with another barely coherent brief. They may say \u201cthe customer is always right,\u201d but [&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-152488","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\/152488","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=152488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}