{"id":165203,"date":"2026-10-18T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/18\/unauthorized-practice-makes-perfect-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:57:25","slug":"unauthorized-practice-makes-perfect-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/18\/unauthorized-practice-makes-perfect-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorized Practice Makes Perfect \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bar None:<\/strong> Trump\u2019s now-former press secretary Katie Zacharia billed herself as a \u201clawyer\u201d in at least 18 Fox appearances, but no U.S. jurisdiction has any record of admitting her, including California where she at one point claimed to be a general counsel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Out Of Office, Out Of Compliance:<\/strong> DHS kept airing its $20 million taxpayer-funded Trump ad blitz after Judge Jennifer Rochon\u2019s TRO, and DOJ\u2019s explanation is that agency counsel didn\u2019t see the email until the next morning.<\/a><\/p>\n

Flush With Ambition:<\/strong> Fifth Circuit conservatives complained that the First Amendment should protect creepers taking and posting surreptitious bathroom pics in case they want to troll trans people and call it political speech.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Absolute Worst:<\/strong> Judge Ana Reyes spent months trusting the government\u2019s lawyers, then Interior approved a plan in five days and cleared about 430 healthy trees from the East Potomac Golf Course Trump wants rebuilt.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cooley Runnings:<\/strong> Cooley will move its associates to the Milbank salary scale on January 1, 2027, and is paying special bonuses for 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

Work From Mostly Anywhere:<\/strong> Quinn Emanuel\u2019s remote policy now requires two years of experience, a year on-site first, and two three-day office stints annually, and it\u2019s still one of the best policies in Biglaw.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Great Benefit:<\/strong> Lowenstein Sandler now gives parents up to eight extra weeks of paid leave for a newborn\u2019s NICU stay.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trick Or Retainer:<\/strong> Send us the four words that would scare a lawyer most, and we\u2019ll put the spookiest to a vote.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post Unauthorized Practice Makes Perfect \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bar None:<\/strong> Trump\u2019s now-former press secretary Katie Zacharia billed herself as a \u201clawyer\u201d in at least 18 Fox appearances, but no U.S. jurisdiction has any record of admitting her, including California where she at one point claimed to be a general counsel.<\/a><\/p>\n

Out Of Office, Out Of Compliance:<\/strong> DHS kept airing its $20 million taxpayer-funded Trump ad blitz after Judge Jennifer Rochon\u2019s TRO, and DOJ\u2019s explanation is that agency counsel didn\u2019t see the email until the next morning.<\/a><\/p>\n

Flush With Ambition:<\/strong> Fifth Circuit conservatives complained that the First Amendment should protect creepers taking and posting surreptitious bathroom pics in case they want to troll trans people and call it political speech.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Absolute Worst:<\/strong> Judge Ana Reyes spent months trusting the government\u2019s lawyers, then Interior approved a plan in five days and cleared about 430 healthy trees from the East Potomac Golf Course Trump wants rebuilt.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cooley Runnings:<\/strong> Cooley will move its associates to the Milbank salary scale on January 1, 2027, and is paying special bonuses for 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n

Work From Mostly Anywhere:<\/strong> Quinn Emanuel\u2019s remote policy now requires two years of experience, a year on-site first, and two three-day office stints annually, and it\u2019s still one of the best policies in Biglaw.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Great Benefit:<\/strong> Lowenstein Sandler now gives parents up to eight extra weeks of paid leave for a newborn\u2019s NICU stay.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trick Or Retainer:<\/strong> Send us the four words that would scare a lawyer most, and we\u2019ll put the spookiest to a vote.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bar None: Trump\u2019s now-former press secretary Katie Zacharia billed herself as a \u201clawyer\u201d in at least 18 Fox appearances, but no U.S. jurisdiction has any record of admitting her, including California where she at one point claimed to be a general counsel. Out Of Office, Out Of Compliance: DHS kept airing its $20 million taxpayer-funded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165203","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=165203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}