Suits promotional image If you’ve ever watched Suits and thought, “I should’ve faked my way into this soul-sucking lawyer gig and avoided all the crushing law school debt,” rest assured that, no, you should not have. If you base your life on Suits, you literally have a better chance of becoming a British royal than […]
Earlier this month, McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel made the surprise announcement that they’d been in merger talks, noting that they were “finalizing a transformative combination.” The merged firm would have more than 1,650 lawyers and a combined revenue of more than $2.8 billion, which would likely land it in the […]
AI-configured images are much more realistic than they used to be. This article, written in 2024, takes a semi-nostalgic look back at what AI-generated images looked like in 2022. Looking at the quality of images being assembled now, you could do the same with AI pictures from just a year ago. But the boost in […]
MAGA’s attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion has hit Biglaw particularly hard. Firms’ commitment to diversifying the profession were a featured part of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional Executive Orders targeting disfavored firms. Many major law firms have ended DEI resources, affinity groups, billing codes, scrubbed email signatures. and more to escape the wrath of the Trump […]
(Photo by Angela Weiss – Pool/Getty Images) When the first Trump administration started elevating unqualified cranks and Biglaw associates to the federal bench, the legal community braced themselves for dingbat outcomes like written opinions becoming insulting rants or tragi-comic linguistic gymnastics over basic vocabulary words. While those wacky predictions came to pass, some of us […]
Hi, everyone! I am very excited to be joining SCOTUSblog as its executive editor. Please feel free to reach out to me at zachary@thedispatch.com, even if just to say hello. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Courting Controversy: Justices’ […]
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to end the protected status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan citizens living in the United States. In a brief unsigned order, the justices paused a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco that had blocked Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, […]
Strong reaction When news broke on Friday that Everton Football Club’s new stadium will be named after corporate law firm, it quickly sparked a flurry of funny memes and video clips across the internet. In a move that surprised many, the Premier League club announced that its new £800 million, 52,000-seat stadium will be named […]
Sensitive data of legal aid applicants – including criminal records – downloaded by hackers Cyber-attackers accessed and downloaded “a significant amount of personal data” — including criminal records, home addresses and financial data — of legal aid applicants in an attack on the Legal Aid Agency, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed. In a […]
The top legal affairs news stories from this morning and the weekend Everton’s new £800 million ground named ‘Hill Dickinson Stadium’ [Legal Cheek] Ex-‘magic circle’ leaders launch consultancy to advise private equity on buying law firms [Financial Times] (£) Old Bailey flat divided for staff accommodation [BBC News] Thames Water paid lawyers £1,400 an hour […]
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