Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: A fire chief says he battled Christian discrimination. Supreme Court declines to take his case (Maureen Groppe, USA Today) Supreme Court declines to hear Republicans’ ‘Hail Mary’ effort to block climate lawsuits […]
As legal challenges mount, US President escalates his attack on law firms In just the first seven weeks of his presidency, the Trump Administration faced an astonishing 119 legal challenges — an average of two per day, according to data from Just Security, a journal of the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Biglaw firm’s recently announced 2024 financials reveal gross revenue was up 23% last year, bringing the figure to $7 billion? Hint: Average profits per equity partner also saw a big jump at the firm, up ~30% to over $7 million. See the […]
Biglaw Firm Prepares To Do Battle With Trump Administration: They’ve recruited Williams & Connolly for the fight. The Williams & Connolly Response Doubles As A Con Law Outline: They came out swinging! First Misconduct Of Many?: Ed Martin gets hit with a disciplinary complaint. Diddy’s Lawyer Responds To Most Recent Celebrity Add-Ons In Sexual Assault […]
(Image via Getty) It is the rare judicial opinion, particularly in the IP arena, that starts with the court admitting that they got an earlier decision wrong. Penning the opinion? None other than the Third Circuit’s Hon. Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware. Widely (and rightly) hailed as one of the […]
Friday morning at SXSW, Niall Firth, the Executive Editor of the Newsroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reviewed MIT’s annual list of 10 breakthrough technologies for 2025. The review is particularly interesting since it comes from MIT, an independent institution with a 135-year history and a sterling reputation. MIT researchers analyze reports, speak […]
Ed note: This is the fifth in a series. Read the previous installment here. Getty Images In the culinary world of networking, it’s not just the main course (your primary follow-up) that matters, but also the side dishes — those small, thoughtful gestures that can leave a lasting impression. Here’s how to add these meaningful touches to […]
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(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Last week, Perkins Coie was called out by the Trump administration for retribution. They were the subject of an executive order that purported to revoke security clearances for employees of the firm, called for the termination of government contracts with the firm, and called for a review of the DEI […]
Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order specifically targeting Perkins Coie and Biglaw firms generally over their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. In the far-reaching order, Trump not only “suspend[ed] any active security clearances held by individuals at Perkins Coie” in what seems to be a retaliation for its representation of […]
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