{"id":152618,"date":"2026-05-22T05:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/morning-docket-05-22-26\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:24:03","slug":"morning-docket-05-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/22\/morning-docket-05-22-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 05.22.26"},"content":{"rendered":"

* Michael Cohen says he\u2019s applying to the DOJ slush fund. Let\u2019s see how this plays out. [Daily Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk eye largest IPO in history \u2014 a $2 trillion valuation for a company that brings in about $15 billion a year. Who doesn\u2019t love a 130x valuation? [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Tom Goldstein hires Elizabeth Prelogar. So he knows he\u2019s heading for an appeal. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* If it seems like Todd Blanche has reoriented the whole DOJ around delivering illicit gifts to Trump, it\u2019s because he has \u2014 and it\u2019s why he\u2019s going to keep his job. [Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Company turns over its outside counsel engagement process to an AI bot. What could go wrong? [Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* New report says the administration will move immigration lawyers into the DOJ to \u201cspeed up\u201d the process. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* ChatGPT confesses to crime that it didn\u2019t commit. [Lowering the Bar<\/a>]<\/p>\n

The post Morning Docket: 05.22.26<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* Michael Cohen says he\u2019s applying to the DOJ slush fund. Let\u2019s see how this plays out. [Daily Beast<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk eye largest IPO in history \u2014 a $2 trillion valuation for a company that brings in about $15 billion a year. Who doesn\u2019t love a 130x valuation? [Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Tom Goldstein hires Elizabeth Prelogar. So he knows he\u2019s heading for an appeal. [Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* If it seems like Todd Blanche has reoriented the whole DOJ around delivering illicit gifts to Trump, it\u2019s because he has \u2014 and it\u2019s why he\u2019s going to keep his job. [Politico<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* Company turns over its outside counsel engagement process to an AI bot. What could go wrong? [Roll on Friday<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* New report says the administration will move immigration lawyers into the DOJ to \u201cspeed up\u201d the process. [Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n

* ChatGPT confesses to crime that it didn\u2019t commit. [Lowering the Bar<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

* Michael Cohen says he\u2019s applying to the DOJ slush fund. Let\u2019s see how this plays out. [Daily Beast] * Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk eye largest IPO in history \u2014 a $2 trillion valuation for a company that brings in about $15 billion a year. Who doesn\u2019t love a 130x valuation? [Bloomberg Law News] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152619,"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-152618","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\/michael-cohen-T1u1TC.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152618","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=152618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}