{"id":157449,"date":"2026-07-19T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/19\/bad-news-out-of-biglaw-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T00:03:29","slug":"bad-news-out-of-biglaw-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/19\/bad-news-out-of-biglaw-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News Out Of Biglaw \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out):<\/strong> K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff \u2014 accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm.<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney\u2019s Fifty-Four Minutes Of Fame:<\/strong> Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, cleared out for the same first-assistant shell game that keeps rendering indictments worthless.<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal-Balling The Next Rankings Circus:<\/strong> Pepperdine\u2019s Paul Caron ran the ABA numbers to project the 2027 U.S. News law school rankings, and the suspense is whether Yale \u2014 knocked out of the top spot for the first time ever this year \u2014 can claw its way back.<\/a><\/p>\n

Unitary Executive Theory Steps On A Rake:<\/strong> After successfully getting the Supreme Court to bless the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does \u2014 except the Fed \u2014 a federal judge cited that right back to him over his attempt to sue the federal government to give himself a sweeping release and his cronies a slush fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

Always Be Charging:<\/strong> The Department of Justice has told all 93 U.S. Attorney\u2019s offices that every line prosecutor must keep at least 25 open matters at all times.<\/a><\/p>\n

No Honor Among Capitulators:<\/strong> The DOJ hit all nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump\u2019s executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epshteyn and dragging in the very firm leaders who signed the $940 million in deals to avoid this in the first place.<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome To The Gaslight District:<\/strong> Legal scholars reviewing Kathryn Ruemmler\u2019s closed-door House Oversight testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it \u201cclassic gaslighting.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking Of Gaslighting:<\/strong> Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to \u201cread the opinion\u201d before judging the Court, informed Congress that it is inappropriate to expect the justices to actually explain their shadow-docket opinions.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recuse Me While The Whole Bench Bails:<\/strong> Lawsuit to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming dean of Kentucky Law over faculty objections kicked upstairs after every judge acknowledged a conflict in a case against their colleague.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Bad News Out Of Biglaw \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out):<\/strong> K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff \u2014 accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm.<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Attorney\u2019s Fifty-Four Minutes Of Fame:<\/strong> Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, cleared out for the same first-assistant shell game that keeps rendering indictments worthless.<\/a><\/p>\n

Crystal-Balling The Next Rankings Circus:<\/strong> Pepperdine\u2019s Paul Caron ran the ABA numbers to project the 2027 U.S. News law school rankings, and the suspense is whether Yale \u2014 knocked out of the top spot for the first time ever this year \u2014 can claw its way back.<\/a><\/p>\n

Unitary Executive Theory Steps On A Rake:<\/strong> After successfully getting the Supreme Court to bless the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does \u2014 except the Fed \u2014 a federal judge cited that right back to him over his attempt to sue the federal government to give himself a sweeping release and his cronies a slush fund.<\/a><\/p>\n

Always Be Charging:<\/strong> The Department of Justice has told all 93 U.S. Attorney\u2019s offices that every line prosecutor must keep at least 25 open matters at all times.<\/a><\/p>\n

No Honor Among Capitulators:<\/strong> The DOJ hit all nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump\u2019s executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epshteyn and dragging in the very firm leaders who signed the $940 million in deals to avoid this in the first place.<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome To The Gaslight District:<\/strong> Legal scholars reviewing Kathryn Ruemmler\u2019s closed-door House Oversight testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it \u201cclassic gaslighting.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking Of Gaslighting:<\/strong> Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to \u201cread the opinion\u201d before judging the Court, informed Congress that it is inappropriate to expect the justices to actually explain their shadow-docket opinions.<\/a><\/p>\n

Recuse Me While The Whole Bench Bails:<\/strong> Lawsuit to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming dean of Kentucky Law over faculty objections kicked upstairs after every judge acknowledged a conflict in a case against their colleague.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Bad News Out Of Biglaw \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening The Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business-services staff \u2014 accounting, marketing, and IT, several of them with more than a decade at the firm. U.S. Attorney\u2019s Fifty-Four Minutes Of Fame: Roger Rogoff was sworn in as U.S. Attorney and fired by the administration fifty-four minutes later, […]<\/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-157449","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\/157449","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=157449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}