The idea that 25 year-old rookie solicitors earning nearly £200,000 are ripe for replacement by tech is appealing, but likely to be wrong In 2017 I remember a partner at a large City of London law firm telling me confidently that trainee numbers were about to be decimated due to AI, then in its ‘machine […]
‘POV: you just opened your SQE1 results and…’ Earlier this week, aspiring solicitors across the country received their results for the first stage of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE). But this year, checking results wasn’t the only thing on their minds—many chose to record the moment and share it on social media! In true 2025 […]
“Eagle” Ed Martin strikes again! The Interim US Attorney for DC is really getting the hang of this whole prosecutor thing. Apparently it involves taking tips from internet randos, then sending nasty letters demanding that liberals explain themselves RIGHT NOW, MISTER! Martin has already achieved stunning success with Operation Whirlwind, his investigation of “threats” against […]
On Friday afternoon at SXSW, Meredith Whittaker, CEO of Signal, painted a sobering and downright alarming picture of the modern privacy landscape. Whittaker argued that the world today is more surveilled than ever before, with a handful of corporations and governments wielding unprecedented access to our personal data. Her comments highlighted the risks that everyone […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Leopard Solutions’ State of the Industry whitepaper analyzing the 2024 legal industry, partnership promotion timelines have increased by how much since 2012? Hint:And of note, for partnership, lateral hires are outpacing internal promotions. See the answer on the next page. The post It Takes […]
Winningly “Bigly” Looks A Lot Like Downward Spiraling Investment Portfolios: Gotta love Trumpenomics! This Is What Happens When You Take On Biglaw: Judge grants Perkins Coie’s TRO preventing the enforcement of provisions of Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at the firm About That Public Service Loan Forgiveness…: Make sure what you’re doing isn’t on Trump’s […]
(Photo by Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images) Remember when Arrested Development made this a gag? John Roberts is living it out in real time as the president explains — on national television — that Roberts is a partisan hack. Amy Coney Barrett seems less excited about the prospect. Meanwhile, the administration is threatening law firms. The dean […]
What do you call an informed adult arguing with a loud 20-something who didn’t do the reading? A Con Law professor arguing with a gunner. What do you call it when you have to deal with 20 gunners? A Jubilee! The most recent Jubilee episode featured Sam Seder arguing against a bunch of conservatives and […]
(Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images) Hollywood star Mel Gibson is not allowed to own a gun. In 2011, he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery of a former girlfriend and was recorded making death threats against her. So, yeah, he can’t own firearms. But Gibson is also Donald Trump’s special little snowflake, otherwise known as […]
(Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I wouldn’t characterize his appointment of her as being a DEI hire. She’s so well credentialed, she’s so demonstrably conservative in her outlook on the role of the courts, that I just think that kind of mischaracterizes it. — […]
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