Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day(Opens in a new window). [Trump] will always stand for law and order. Leftist commencement speakers that ignored the previous administration’s egregious legal abuses against President Trump have no credibility today. — White House spokesperson Harrison Fields, in comments given to Reuters(Opens in a new […]
In April, the nine Biglaw firms who settled with the Trump administration to the tune of a combined billion in pro bono payola received inquiries from legislators over the legal and ethical problems raised by the deals. Essentially, how can the firms remain adamant that they did nothing to merit a retaliatory executive order — […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!(Opens in a new window) According to data collected by Am Law, which Am Law 100 firm has the lowest compensation across all partners? Hint: Partner compensation averages $398,000 at this firm -— about what a sixth-year associate makes at Biglaw firms on the […]
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Guess Who Completed Their Studies!: Will Kim’s next step be bar prep(Opens in a new window)? Cowardlader Wants To Skimp On Their Trump Tithe: The firm wants to scrub the stain of pro bono payola by flooding Brooklyn’s DA with associates(Opens in a new window). The White Flag Firms’ Response To Congressional Inquiry Is Less […]
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. There are 102 petitions and applications on the Supreme Court’s docket for this week’s conference. After several months of relisting cases at a slow rate, the court has picked up […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s request to pause orders by federal judges that required government officials to allow board members at two independent federal agencies to stay in office after President Donald Trump tried to fire them. Chief Justice John Roberts had already issued an administrative stay, which temporarily put those […]
The good news is that Ed Martin will not be the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In the end, even Republicans in the Senate had too many misgivings to hand one of the most powerful roles within the Department of Justice to a January 6 wingnut. The bad news is that the same […]
On June 5, 2025, the Nintendo Switch 2 game console will be released worldwide. The sticker price for the console itself is $450 plus sales tax. With a game, expect to pay over $500. For comparison, the cheapest PlayStation 5 sells for $450 and the X-Box has recently increased its price to $550. If someone […]
According to the ABA, there were 1,322,649 active lawyers in the United States as of January 1, 2024. These lawyers service the roughly 350 million people in the U.S. By contrast, in 1900, there were 76 million American citizens and approximately how many lawyers? Hint: While there are obviously more lawyers as a raw number, […]
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