{"id":166012,"date":"2026-10-25T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/25\/law-firm-leaks-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T00:20:37","slug":"law-firm-leaks-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/25\/law-firm-leaks-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Firm Leaks \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forwarding Fail:<\/strong> Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm\u2019s AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities\u2026 even when they\u2019re between the keyboard and the chair.<\/a><\/p>\n

Weil They Ever Find Someone?:<\/strong> About a month after insisting it was \u201cnot engaged in merger discussions with any firm,\u201d Weil Gotshal it came out that the firm was hammering out a memorandum of understanding with a merger partner.<\/a>\u2026 And then that deal with Willkie Farr collapsed.<\/a><\/p>\n

Department Of Health And Hallucination Services:<\/strong> The Federal Labor Relations Authority found that 35 of the 42 legal and record citations in HHS\u2019s brief were fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Whataboutism:<\/strong> Defenders of former White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia keep pointing out that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris also failed bar exams, which would be relevant if her problem was failing the bar.<\/a><\/p>\n

No Kidding:<\/strong> Speaking at Catholic University\u2019s law school, Justice Elena Kagan said the Court \u201chas kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effect of their rulings\u201d on the political system, from partisan gerrymandering to campaign finance.<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Not, Lest Ye Notice:<\/strong> Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward moved to disqualify Judge Ana Reyes after she pointed out the government blatantly violating the law.<\/a>\u2026 then the DC Preservation League alerted the judge that the president had called her \u201ca crazed lunatic\u201d hours before the hearing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yale Law School, Folks!:<\/strong> Yale Law grads Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance are defending a campaign ad starring Amy Acton\u2019s mother, who lost custody of her kids after her husband sexually abused the candidate as a child.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Govern Yourself Accordingly:<\/strong> We asked readers for the four words most likely to terrify an attorney, and the contenders run the gamut from \u201cYour draft didn\u2019t save\u201d to \u201cPer my prior correspondence.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Law Student Says Game Day Pressure Is Nothing Compared To Law School, Which Tracks:<\/strong> This kid\u2019s got a lot on his plate. <\/a><\/p>\n

The post Law Firm Leaks \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Forwarding Fail:<\/strong> Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm\u2019s AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities\u2026 even when they\u2019re between the keyboard and the chair.<\/a><\/p>\n

Weil They Ever Find Someone?:<\/strong> About a month after insisting it was \u201cnot engaged in merger discussions with any firm,\u201d Weil Gotshal it came out that the firm was hammering out a memorandum of understanding with a merger partner.<\/a>\u2026 And then that deal with Willkie Farr collapsed.<\/a><\/p>\n

Department Of Health And Hallucination Services:<\/strong> The Federal Labor Relations Authority found that 35 of the 42 legal and record citations in HHS\u2019s brief were fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant.<\/a><\/p>\n

Whataboutism:<\/strong> Defenders of former White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia keep pointing out that Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris also failed bar exams, which would be relevant if her problem was failing the bar.<\/a><\/p>\n

No Kidding:<\/strong> Speaking at Catholic University\u2019s law school, Justice Elena Kagan said the Court \u201chas kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effect of their rulings\u201d on the political system, from partisan gerrymandering to campaign finance.<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge Not, Lest Ye Notice:<\/strong> Associate Attorney General Stan Woodward moved to disqualify Judge Ana Reyes after she pointed out the government blatantly violating the law.<\/a>\u2026 then the DC Preservation League alerted the judge that the president had called her \u201ca crazed lunatic\u201d hours before the hearing.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yale Law School, Folks!:<\/strong> Yale Law grads Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance are defending a campaign ad starring Amy Acton\u2019s mother, who lost custody of her kids after her husband sexually abused the candidate as a child.<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Govern Yourself Accordingly:<\/strong> We asked readers for the four words most likely to terrify an attorney, and the contenders run the gamut from \u201cYour draft didn\u2019t save\u201d to \u201cPer my prior correspondence.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Law Student Says Game Day Pressure Is Nothing Compared To Law School, Which Tracks:<\/strong> This kid\u2019s got a lot on his plate. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forwarding Fail: Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm\u2019s AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities\u2026 even when they\u2019re between the keyboard and the chair. Weil They Ever Find Someone?: About a month after insisting it was \u201cnot engaged in merger discussions with any firm,\u201d Weil Gotshal it came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166013,"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-166012","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\/166012","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=166012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}