{"id":163042,"date":"2026-09-16T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/16\/law-firm-passive-aggressiveness-on-parade\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:38:11","slug":"law-firm-passive-aggressiveness-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/16\/law-firm-passive-aggressiveness-on-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Passive Aggressiveness On Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Weil labels Cravath a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/weils-corporate-chair-decamps-for-cravath-which-weil-would-like-you-to-know-is-a-smaller-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smaller platform<\/a>\u201d following partner departure, vaulting to the top of the leaderboard as the most passive aggressive statement a law firm has made this year. Which is saying a lot. Meanwhile, Missouri Republicans spent the week putting on a civil procedure issue spotter exam as they tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-wouldnt-save-missouris-gerrymander-a-trump-judge-did-it-anyway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ram through a gerrymandered map<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/supreme-court-to-missouri-republicans-shut-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even the Supreme Court wouldn\u2019t bless<\/a>. Finally, we ask when a judge\u2019s style crosses the line to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/first-circuit-opinion-goes-informal-well-fill-in-the-deets-shortly-but-the-sparknotes-is-this\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become too informal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/law-firm-passive-aggressiveness-on-parade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law Firm Passive Aggressiveness On Parade<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Weil labels Cravath a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/weils-corporate-chair-decamps-for-cravath-which-weil-would-like-you-to-know-is-a-smaller-platform\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smaller platform<\/a>\u201d following partner departure, vaulting to the top of the leaderboard as the most passive aggressive statement a law firm has made this year. Which is saying a lot. Meanwhile, Missouri Republicans spent the week putting on a civil procedure issue spotter exam as they tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/the-supreme-court-wouldnt-save-missouris-gerrymander-a-trump-judge-did-it-anyway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ram through a gerrymandered map<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/supreme-court-to-missouri-republicans-shut-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">even the Supreme Court wouldn\u2019t bless<\/a>. Finally, we ask when a judge\u2019s style crosses the line to <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/first-circuit-opinion-goes-informal-well-fill-in-the-deets-shortly-but-the-sparknotes-is-this\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become too informal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/law-firm-passive-aggressiveness-on-parade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Law Firm Passive Aggressiveness On Parade<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weil labels Cravath a \u201csmaller platform\u201d following partner departure, vaulting to the top of the leaderboard as the most passive aggressive statement a law firm has made this year. Which is saying a lot. 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