{"id":161835,"date":"2026-08-30T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/30\/as-if-its-not-hard-enough-to-make-partner-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T01:22:45","slug":"as-if-its-not-hard-enough-to-make-partner-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/30\/as-if-its-not-hard-enough-to-make-partner-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"As If It\u2019s Not Hard Enough To Make Partner \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Change Of Heart:<\/strong> Matthew Cali says Troutman Pepper Locke told him \u201cthe goalposts to make Partner\u201d had moved after he survived a devastating heart attack.<\/a><\/p>\n

Emergency Contact:<\/strong> The conservative majority reached for the emergency docket to let Trump\u2019s mail-in ballot executive order proceed over the dissents of all three liberals, with Justice Jackson writing separately about the standing trap the Court keeps building for election challengers.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Best Defense Is Repealing The Offense:<\/strong> The DOJ\u2019s appeal to revive the dismissed Abrego Garcia indictment asks the Sixth Circuit to limit the vindictive prosecution presumption to cases where a prosecutor \u201cups the ante,\u201d which would retire the doctrine currently being pressed against the administration by James Comey, Letitia James, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/a><\/p>\n

Scared Straight Stupid:<\/strong> Judicial immunity does not cover handcuffing a student who dozed off during a courthouse field trip, putting her in a jumpsuit and a holding cell for hours, and then staging a mock trial livestreamed on the court\u2019s own YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Penny Wise, Token Foolish:<\/strong> NetDocuments benchmarked what accuracy actually costs and found frontier tier models adding big costs for smaller benefits and that good context can deliver quality for less.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes The Jam Is The Feature:<\/strong> QWERTY \u2014 according to popular legend \u2014 exists to keep typists from outrunning the hammers. Agentic workflows raise a similar challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018One Of The Darkest Days In Our Office\u2019s History\u2019:<\/strong> Andrew Haden, a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, was found dead at 48 in a vacant office inside the downtown San Diego federal building.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post As If It\u2019s Not Hard Enough To Make Partner \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Change Of Heart:<\/strong> Matthew Cali says Troutman Pepper Locke told him \u201cthe goalposts to make Partner\u201d had moved after he survived a devastating heart attack.<\/a><\/p>\n

Emergency Contact:<\/strong> The conservative majority reached for the emergency docket to let Trump\u2019s mail-in ballot executive order proceed over the dissents of all three liberals, with Justice Jackson writing separately about the standing trap the Court keeps building for election challengers.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Best Defense Is Repealing The Offense:<\/strong> The DOJ\u2019s appeal to revive the dismissed Abrego Garcia indictment asks the Sixth Circuit to limit the vindictive prosecution presumption to cases where a prosecutor \u201cups the ante,\u201d which would retire the doctrine currently being pressed against the administration by James Comey, Letitia James, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/a><\/p>\n

Scared Straight Stupid:<\/strong> Judicial immunity does not cover handcuffing a student who dozed off during a courthouse field trip, putting her in a jumpsuit and a holding cell for hours, and then staging a mock trial livestreamed on the court\u2019s own YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Penny Wise, Token Foolish:<\/strong> NetDocuments benchmarked what accuracy actually costs and found frontier tier models adding big costs for smaller benefits and that good context can deliver quality for less.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes The Jam Is The Feature:<\/strong> QWERTY \u2014 according to popular legend \u2014 exists to keep typists from outrunning the hammers. Agentic workflows raise a similar challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018One Of The Darkest Days In Our Office\u2019s History\u2019:<\/strong> Andrew Haden, a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, was found dead at 48 in a vacant office inside the downtown San Diego federal building.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post As If It\u2019s Not Hard Enough To Make Partner \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Change Of Heart: Matthew Cali says Troutman Pepper Locke told him \u201cthe goalposts to make Partner\u201d had moved after he survived a devastating heart attack. Emergency Contact: The conservative majority reached for the emergency docket to let Trump\u2019s mail-in ballot executive order proceed over the dissents of all three liberals, with Justice Jackson writing […]<\/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-161835","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\/161835","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=161835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}