Failed challenging exams, leading to the withdrawal of TC offer A City lawyer has shared how a future trainee reached out for advice and support after her firm said it was rescinding her training contract and attempting to recover the costs of her SQE prep course, after she failed to pass the challenging assessments. Chris […]
Ill-judged joke A magistrate has received a formal warning after the judicial watchdog said he suggested dealing with young offenders by, in its words, “cutting off parts of their anatomy”. Although Mr Michael Berry JP did not use those exact words, he was alleged to have made a similar “offensive” remark to colleagues in the […]
What do five Biden, two Obama, one George W. Bush, one Trump judicial appointee to the district courts have in common? If you guessed that they all issued significant injunctions, many at the national level in the last several weeks then you answered correctly. This post details the issues in the cases along with the […]
(Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images) While I don’t view any investment as a suicide pact, my general approach is to only purchase securities I intend to hold for at least a decade. I was adhering to that long-term philosophy when I purchased a few Tesla shares in 2018. I still own those shares (actually quite […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the most recent President of the United States to have argued before the Supreme Court? Hint: The relevant case was a First Amendment case, and the Court held that absent a finding of malicious intent on the part of a publisher, false […]
Just Send In Your Resume: This elite Biglaw firm is done with OCI. Is yours? The List Grows In Number!: Over 50 bar associations stand between Trump and the rule of law. About Those Checks And Balances: Republicans want to get rid of federal courts because they’re stopping the Trump Train. Associates Hit Back At […]
One of the first things you need to know in a fight is who you can and can’t rely on. Thankfully, time and resources were saved by knowing that Paul Weiss is a lost cause. But the search is still on for compatriots willing to speak out against the current administration’s consistent disregard for the […]
(Photo by Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images) As stated in an earlier column, the IRS historically has not shared tax information with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement purposes. This is because an immigrant’s tax information may not be relevant to the enforcement of immigration laws. Also, promises of […]
Protests outside of the offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) There’s a lot of anger directed at Biglaw — and not just from the Trump administration. Faced with existential attacks from the executive branch, too many firms in Biglaw are trying to hide (or worse, appease Trump) […]
Judge James Boasberg, COME ON DOWN. Again. The chief judge of the US District Court for DC is already robe-deep in bullshit in the case of the Venezuelans kidnapped and shipped to El Salvador. At the moment, he’s dealing with a preposterous invocation of the state secrets privilege to fend off a query into potential […]
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