{"id":160647,"date":"2026-08-16T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/16\/vances-learn-that-if-youre-not-in-a-side-chat-the-side-chat-is-about-you-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:20:59","slug":"vances-learn-that-if-youre-not-in-a-side-chat-the-side-chat-is-about-you-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/16\/vances-learn-that-if-youre-not-in-a-side-chat-the-side-chat-is-about-you-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Vances Learn That If You\u2019re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yale Law Cool Kids\u2019 Chat:<\/strong> JD and Usha Vance\u2019s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple\u2019s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really Change:<\/strong> Luigi Mangione hopes to turn federal guilty plea to stalking into double jeopardy protection against murder charges. It shouldn\u2019t succeed, but nothing about 2026 makes sense.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ice Miller\u2019s Raises On Layaway:<\/strong> Ice Miller matched the market salary scale for its New York associates, then decided they can wait until January 2027 to actually see the money.<\/a><\/p>\n

Endless Shrimp, Meet Endless Billables:<\/strong> Paul, Weiss, Quinn Emanuel, and Proskauer are reportedly holding early talks with private equity investors despite already sitting on some of the fattest profit margins in Biglaw.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eat What You Kill, Round Three:<\/strong> Litigation boutique Reid Collins & Tsai is handing out its third bonus round of 2026, pushing associates\u2019 total bonus compensation for the year as high as $170,000.<\/a><\/p>\n

SPLC Left With Chicken-And-Egg Problem:<\/strong> A federal judge in Alabama rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s vindictive-prosecution claim against DOJ, ruling the group needed more evidence of prosecutorial animus. Oh, and the judge ruled out allowing the SPLC to see that evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Navarro Wants The Guy Who Convicted Him Fired For Convicting Him:<\/strong> White House adviser Peter Navarro used a livestream on Steve Bannon\u2019s show to demand that DC\u2019s top federal prosecutor fire the career attorney who helped put Navarro in prison for contempt of Congress.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman Discovers The NDA Drawer:<\/strong> Paramount+ has ordered Discretion<\/em>, an eight-episode legal thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning about a summer associate who uncovers the NDAs her firm\u2019s most powerful partner used to bury a dark truth.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pirro Reaches For Nuclear Grand Jury Option:<\/strong> Facing Trump\u2019s fury over a botched prosecution, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury and put a crony who once ran a dance photography studio in charge of politically sensitive cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

Blame The Bot Strategy Fails:<\/strong> An NLRB judge refused to credit an auto parts company\u2019s claim that ChatGPT invented the line in its own termination paperwork admitting it illegally fired an employee for discussing pay.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Vances Learn That If You\u2019re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yale Law Cool Kids\u2019 Chat:<\/strong> JD and Usha Vance\u2019s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple\u2019s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really Change:<\/strong> Luigi Mangione hopes to turn federal guilty plea to stalking into double jeopardy protection against murder charges. It shouldn\u2019t succeed, but nothing about 2026 makes sense.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ice Miller\u2019s Raises On Layaway:<\/strong> Ice Miller matched the market salary scale for its New York associates, then decided they can wait until January 2027 to actually see the money.<\/a><\/p>\n

Endless Shrimp, Meet Endless Billables:<\/strong> Paul, Weiss, Quinn Emanuel, and Proskauer are reportedly holding early talks with private equity investors despite already sitting on some of the fattest profit margins in Biglaw.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eat What You Kill, Round Three:<\/strong> Litigation boutique Reid Collins & Tsai is handing out its third bonus round of 2026, pushing associates\u2019 total bonus compensation for the year as high as $170,000.<\/a><\/p>\n

SPLC Left With Chicken-And-Egg Problem:<\/strong> A federal judge in Alabama rejected the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s vindictive-prosecution claim against DOJ, ruling the group needed more evidence of prosecutorial animus. Oh, and the judge ruled out allowing the SPLC to see that evidence.<\/a><\/p>\n

Navarro Wants The Guy Who Convicted Him Fired For Convicting Him:<\/strong> White House adviser Peter Navarro used a livestream on Steve Bannon\u2019s show to demand that DC\u2019s top federal prosecutor fire the career attorney who helped put Navarro in prison for contempt of Congress.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicole Kidman Discovers The NDA Drawer:<\/strong> Paramount+ has ordered Discretion<\/em>, an eight-episode legal thriller starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning about a summer associate who uncovers the NDAs her firm\u2019s most powerful partner used to bury a dark truth.<\/a><\/p>\n

Pirro Reaches For Nuclear Grand Jury Option:<\/strong> Facing Trump\u2019s fury over a botched prosecution, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro has convened a special grand jury and put a crony who once ran a dance photography studio in charge of politically sensitive cases.<\/a><\/p>\n

Blame The Bot Strategy Fails:<\/strong> An NLRB judge refused to credit an auto parts company\u2019s claim that ChatGPT invented the line in its own termination paperwork admitting it illegally fired an employee for discussing pay.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yale Law Cool Kids\u2019 Chat: JD and Usha Vance\u2019s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple\u2019s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty. Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really Change: Luigi Mangione hopes to turn federal guilty plea to stalking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160648,"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-160647","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-1419541664-scaled-pdGDSV.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160647","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=160647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}