{"id":154738,"date":"2026-06-15T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/morning-docket-06-15-26\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:53:12","slug":"morning-docket-06-15-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/06\/15\/morning-docket-06-15-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Docket: 06.15.26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Spencer Fane keeps merging. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2026\/06\/12\/this-law-firm-continues-green-lighting-mergers-what-would-make-them-see-red\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump keeps paying his personal lawyers in patronage instead of cash,. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-lawyer-us-attorney-manhattan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* SBF conviction upheld. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2489136\/2nd-circ-backs-bankman-fried-s-25-year-fraud-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge orders administration has to return history to national parks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump administration shuts down Claude\u2019s most advanced  model and bans its top engineers from working on it \u2014 which is exactly how you forfeit the global economy to China. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/anthropic-says-us-government-ordered-it-to-shut-down-mythos-models\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WIRED<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPaul Weiss Ties to Tisch Family Cited in Malpractice Allegations\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-ties-to-tisch-family-cited-in-malpractice-allegations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justin Baldoni ordered to pay Blake Lively\u2019s legal fees. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/blake-lively-legal-fees-justin-baldoni-court-orders-1236620370\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/06\/morning-docket-06-15-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Docket: 06.15.26<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Spencer Fane keeps merging. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/americanlawyer\/2026\/06\/12\/this-law-firm-continues-green-lighting-mergers-what-would-make-them-see-red\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Lawyer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump keeps paying his personal lawyers in patronage instead of cash,. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/13\/us\/politics\/trump-lawyer-us-attorney-manhattan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* SBF conviction upheld. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/2489136\/2nd-circ-backs-bankman-fried-s-25-year-fraud-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law360<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Judge orders administration has to return history to national parks. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trump-administration-must-restore-history-science-materials-parks-us-judge-rules-2026-06-12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Trump administration shuts down Claude\u2019s most advanced  model and bans its top engineers from working on it \u2014 which is exactly how you forfeit the global economy to China. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/anthropic-says-us-government-ordered-it-to-shut-down-mythos-models\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WIRED<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* \u201cPaul Weiss Ties to Tisch Family Cited in Malpractice Allegations\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/business-and-practice\/paul-weiss-ties-to-tisch-family-cited-in-malpractice-allegations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg Law News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>* Justin Baldoni ordered to pay Blake Lively\u2019s legal fees. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/business-news\/blake-lively-legal-fees-justin-baldoni-court-orders-1236620370\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Spencer Fane keeps merging. [American Lawyer] * Trump keeps paying his personal lawyers in patronage instead of cash,. [New York Times] * SBF conviction upheld. [Law360] * Judge orders administration has to return history to national parks. [Reuters] * Trump administration shuts down Claude\u2019s most advanced model and bans its top engineers from working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":154739,"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-154738","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\/06\/handshake-merger-money-finance-300x222-pROwGV.jpg?fit=300%2C222&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154738","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=154738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}