If you are forced between defrauding your clients or stiffing the IRS out of their money, pick a struggle! Star lawyer Michael Avenatti made the foolish choice to double up on the bad decisions and was sentenced to 14 years in prison back in 2022. Since then he’s since pushed for a resentening — The […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by the National Law Journal, which Biglaw firm had the largest net gain in the number of associates in 2024, adding 232 associates to its ranks? Hint: The firm was followed closely by DLA Piper, which added 227 associates […]
Paul Weiss Says Everything Is Okay: If you squint past the horrible PR and the firm hemorrhaging partners, it’s a plausible narrative! Threatening Like A Lawyer: Merely wishing great harm occasions your enemies still sounds like a threat! Michael Avenatti Gets His Sentence Reduced: Takes some good lawyering to do that I tell you what. […]
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I don’t take hypocrites lightly. When I worked at a law firm, I was always annoyed, for example, when the firm had no money for business development for the plebian partners but somehow always found money for exotic locales, five-star hotels, and $100-a-bottle wines when the Management Committee was meeting. The same thing happens at […]
The myth that the Supreme Court is a politically neutral body that just calls “balls and strikes” in its jurisprudence has been well and truly shattered. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, only 20% of respondents think the Supreme Court is politically neutral. The majority — 58% — disagreed with that sentiment, and the remainder […]
Over the past couple weeks, authorities say Acting Supreme Court Justice Susan Capeci received multiple threatening messages from the account of attorney Nicholas Leo. From May 27 until just last week, the judge got texts like “I hope you die” and the more specific “I wish you die tonight in a car fire” from the […]
The Supreme Court on Monday added two new cases to its docket for the 2025-26 term, both involving efforts to litigate disputes in federal rather than state courts. In a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference last week, the court announced that it will hear arguments next term in cases arising from […]
* Poll reveals majority of Americans understand Supreme Court is partisan institution. [Reuters] * They’re raising taxes on the free office snacks your bosses supply so they can give even bigger tax cuts to your bosses. [Washington Post] * “Trial tourists.” New least fun people on Earth category just dropped. [ABA Journal] * Since the […]
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Justice Barrett: In Her Own Words (Jodi Kantor, The New York Times) Americans don’t see Supreme Court as politically neutral, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Andrew Goudsward, John Kruzel, and Jason Lange, Reuters) Supreme Court […]
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