{"id":159909,"date":"2026-08-09T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/09\/trump-rewrites-supreme-court-loss-as-a-win-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:30:57","slug":"trump-rewrites-supreme-court-loss-as-a-win-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/09\/trump-rewrites-supreme-court-loss-as-a-win-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Rewrites Supreme Court Loss As A Win \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just Pretend You Won:<\/strong> After raging over his loss in the birthright citizenship case, Trump issued new executive orders asserting that he actually won.<\/a><\/p>\n

Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn\u2019t Get Worse:<\/strong> The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it\u2019s even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a client to keep the administration happy and internally considering running management decisions by Stephen Miller.<\/a><\/p>\n

And Then This:<\/strong> The same report also claims Paul Weiss paid its first openly transgender partner $3.5 million for a non-disparagement agreement as they parted ways.<\/a><\/p>\n

Til Disgorgement Do Us Part:<\/strong> Jackson Walker will pay $15 million to end the U.S. Trustee\u2019s suit over its former partner\u2019s undisclosed romance with the bankruptcy judge hearing her cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reflecting Poorly:<\/strong> Jeanine Pirro dropped the vandalism case against a 67-year-old former Olympian after the Interior Department finally turned over documents showing that a $14 million renovation had simply been botched, and the president has spent the days since complaining about her.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lateral Thinking, In Bulk:<\/strong> Brown Rudnick picked off a massive lawyer intellectual property litigation team from HSF Kramer, the largest group hire in the firm\u2019s history, and opened a Silicon Valley office to put them in.<\/a><\/p>\n

Too Big To Hire:<\/strong> Firms of more than 500 lawyers are now the single largest employer of new law graduates, taking more than one in five members of the Class of 2025.<\/a> Those same firms hired 7.5 percent fewer of them than the year before, the first drop in Biglaw entry-level hiring since 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n

Come Early, Stay Late:<\/strong> Milbank is offering its incoming first-years the chance to start three weeks ahead of schedule on the strength of \u201cexceptionally strong client demand.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Trump Rewrites Supreme Court Loss As A Win \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just Pretend You Won:<\/strong> After raging over his loss in the birthright citizenship case, Trump issued new executive orders asserting that he actually won.<\/a><\/p>\n

Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn\u2019t Get Worse:<\/strong> The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it\u2019s even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a client to keep the administration happy and internally considering running management decisions by Stephen Miller.<\/a><\/p>\n

And Then This:<\/strong> The same report also claims Paul Weiss paid its first openly transgender partner $3.5 million for a non-disparagement agreement as they parted ways.<\/a><\/p>\n

Til Disgorgement Do Us Part:<\/strong> Jackson Walker will pay $15 million to end the U.S. Trustee\u2019s suit over its former partner\u2019s undisclosed romance with the bankruptcy judge hearing her cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

Reflecting Poorly:<\/strong> Jeanine Pirro dropped the vandalism case against a 67-year-old former Olympian after the Interior Department finally turned over documents showing that a $14 million renovation had simply been botched, and the president has spent the days since complaining about her.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lateral Thinking, In Bulk:<\/strong> Brown Rudnick picked off a massive lawyer intellectual property litigation team from HSF Kramer, the largest group hire in the firm\u2019s history, and opened a Silicon Valley office to put them in.<\/a><\/p>\n

Too Big To Hire:<\/strong> Firms of more than 500 lawyers are now the single largest employer of new law graduates, taking more than one in five members of the Class of 2025.<\/a> Those same firms hired 7.5 percent fewer of them than the year before, the first drop in Biglaw entry-level hiring since 2014.<\/a><\/p>\n

Come Early, Stay Late:<\/strong> Milbank is offering its incoming first-years the chance to start three weeks ahead of schedule on the strength of \u201cexceptionally strong client demand.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just Pretend You Won: After raging over his loss in the birthright citizenship case, Trump issued new executive orders asserting that he actually won. Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn\u2019t Get Worse: The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw capitulation and it\u2019s even more cowardly than we thought. Dropping a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159910,"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-159909","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\/08\/GettyImages-2215972994-oPfGOm.jpg?fit=594%2C422&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159909","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=159909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}