Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Vault’s 2025 Best Law Firms ranking, which Biglaw firm scored best for Quality of Work? Hint: The firm was founded in 1885 in California, but now has 18 offices across eight different countries. See the answer on the next page. The […]
Milbank Is The Latest Biglaw Firm To Kneel To Trump: More pro bono payola. DLA Piper Has A Reason For Cracking Down On Diversity: It isn’t a good one, but it is there. Law School Applications Bump In Response To Trump’s 2nd Term: Shame there might not be the rule of law when they graduate. […]
Share The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act provides for federal criminal and civil penalties for harms from “racketeering.” Wednesday’s ruling in Medical Marijuana, Inc v. Horn, like so many of the court’s RICO decisions, involves the civil penalties. Douglas Horn was fired from his commercial truck driving job after he ingested a product marketed […]
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over whether Planned Parenthood has a legal right under federal civil rights laws to challenge the order by South Carolina’s governor barring abortion clinics, including Planned Parenthood, from participating in Medicaid. During more than 90 minutes of oral arguments, the justices struggled to determine whether the Medicaid […]
Fresh off his whirlwind tour of Greenland, Yale Law School’s own very special boy JD Vance decided to flex his degree by wading into the legal particulars of immigration. It started with a Twitter post by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney: Vance here, mocking @jonfavs for not reading the court filing, says the deported man was […]
Image courtesy of AffiniPay. They say time is money—for law firms, every billable minute counts toward profitability. Yet many firms struggle to capture the full value of their work. Manual time tracking often leads to missed billable hours, inaccurate invoicing, and lost revenue. The solution? Automating time tracking through technology. In this post, we’ll explore […]
‘I want you to go to a BIGLY, beautiful law school – but don’t sue me, or else.’ (Photo by Andrew Harrer – Pool/Getty Images) Ever since the 2024 election and the legal turmoil that began shortly after President Donald Trump’s reelection (and has continued to this day), thousands of college graduates have been inspired […]
Dating a lawyer can be rough. Long hours, unnecessary Latin injected into conversations, complaints about the rule of law being in crisis when you really just want to re-watch Chelsea Handler’s “The Feeling” — the list goes on. But one thing that isn’t mentioned enough is that sometimes, they’re just outright frauds. And as bad […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s been wielding his likely unconstitutional Executive Orders aimed at Biglaw firms like a cudgel, using the mere threat of them to get concessions from major firm. Even though the firms that have chosen to fight the good fight against the Trump administration have had slam-dunk victories in court, there’s a growing […]
Share We are expecting one or more opinions from the court this morning. Join us for the live blog starting at 9:45 a.m. EDT. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. The case is a dispute over South Carolina’s attempt to exclude all Planned Parenthood […]
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