{"id":158334,"date":"2026-07-26T16:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/26\/partner-associate-park-passion-predicament-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:23:40","slug":"partner-associate-park-passion-predicament-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/26\/partner-associate-park-passion-predicament-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner-Associate Park Passion Predicament \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s The Billing Code For This<\/strong>: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral.<\/a><\/p>\n

$1.2 Billion Worth Of \u2018Are You Sure This Is Legal?\u2019<\/strong>: MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state attorneys general came calling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John \u201cTorture Memo\u201d Yoo Invents New Crime To Threaten Administration Critics<\/strong>: John Yoo went on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city\u2019s obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Requests That Beatings Continue Until Morale Improves<\/strong>: Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues. He is never, ever beating the \u201che wasn\u2019t qualified for this job\u201d rap.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pile Is Starting To Speak For Itself<\/strong>: DOJ walked into Judge Arun Subramanian\u2019s courtroom with grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters and took the judge\u2019s offer to withdraw rather than be quashed, and then issued a statement accusing him of overriding \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Twenty-Five Schools Where The Math Actually Works<\/strong>: U.S. News ranked the law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, and BYU leads at 3.41-to-1 with Utah at 1.98 and Temple at 1.91, which is a useful list right up until you notice how far the numbers fall after the top three.<\/a><\/p>\n

One Paragraph Of Law, The Rest Of It Vibes<\/strong>: Ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by July 2, Todd Blanche produced no documents and instead filed a response consisting of a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Bold Confirmation Strategy: Tell The Committee They\u2019re Lying<\/strong>: Asked in written questions whether he stood by admitting the slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered \u201cI contest the accuracy of this statement.\u201d Then he called Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cKetanji, You Were Very Good. Matt, We\u2019ll Talk.\u201d<\/strong>: Shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting their undergraduate acting scene, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say \u201cI know that guy\u201d about him.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Partner-Associate Park Passion Predicament \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s The Billing Code For This<\/strong>: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral.<\/a><\/p>\n

$1.2 Billion Worth Of \u2018Are You Sure This Is Legal?\u2019<\/strong>: MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state attorneys general came calling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John \u201cTorture Memo\u201d Yoo Invents New Crime To Threaten Administration Critics<\/strong>: John Yoo went on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city\u2019s obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Requests That Beatings Continue Until Morale Improves<\/strong>: Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues. He is never, ever beating the \u201che wasn\u2019t qualified for this job\u201d rap.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pile Is Starting To Speak For Itself<\/strong>: DOJ walked into Judge Arun Subramanian\u2019s courtroom with grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters and took the judge\u2019s offer to withdraw rather than be quashed, and then issued a statement accusing him of overriding \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Twenty-Five Schools Where The Math Actually Works<\/strong>: U.S. News ranked the law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, and BYU leads at 3.41-to-1 with Utah at 1.98 and Temple at 1.91, which is a useful list right up until you notice how far the numbers fall after the top three.<\/a><\/p>\n

One Paragraph Of Law, The Rest Of It Vibes<\/strong>: Ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by July 2, Todd Blanche produced no documents and instead filed a response consisting of a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Bold Confirmation Strategy: Tell The Committee They\u2019re Lying<\/strong>: Asked in written questions whether he stood by admitting the slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered \u201cI contest the accuracy of this statement.\u201d Then he called Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cKetanji, You Were Very Good. Matt, We\u2019ll Talk.\u201d<\/strong>: Shown a clip of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounting their undergraduate acting scene, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say \u201cI know that guy\u201d about him.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s The Billing Code For This: A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate ends up going viral. $1.2 Billion Worth Of \u2018Are You Sure This Is Legal?\u2019: MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight claiming it sank $156 million into a unique financial product blessed by the firm and 16 state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158335,"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-158334","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\/07\/GettyImages-539259697-620x414-ErrbyP.jpg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158334","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=158334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}