Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jamie Szal back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. You’ve heard the saying — it’s all about who you know. To that end, when […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day! According to the Law360 Pulse 2025 Summer Associates Survey, what percentage of incoming summer associates are concerned about receiving an offer at the end of their summer programs? Hint: Law student survey respondents were even more worried about being no-offered in 2024, with […]
Eventually Everyone Gets Roped Into Trends: Ropes & Gray considers nonequity partnerships. The American Bar Isn’t The Only One You Have To Worry About: The German Bar Association sends a warning to lawyers working for the Yellow-Bellied Nine. Someone Has To Pay The Court-Appointed Defenders!: Poor budgeting is hitting them in their pockets. A New […]
Gideon v. Wainwright secured the right to an attorney for defendants facing felony charges, even if they couldn’t afford the representation. Would have been nice if it went just a little bit further and ensured that the representing attorneys would be duly compensated for upholding their part of the Constitution. The Court may have assumed […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) The news is a deluge. It arrives relentlessly in daily, or hourly, or minutely cycles. The tweets are even worse. They “begin, and cease, and then again begin,” frothing and vanishing into the twittersphere. So slow down this week and think about some of Trump’s best tweets. Trump wrote, for example, on […]
It’s June 2, and for the Biglaw community, that means that a new competitor just entered the marketplace. Today marks Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s second day of existence, and the brand new firm — formed from the union of Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin — grosses more than $2 billion, with about 2,700 lawyers, […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals, they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards. — Marc Elias, a former […]
(Photo by Fran Santiago/Getty Images) “You’re welcome to do dealings with foreign governments when it makes sense, but don’t go accepting compromising deals as their agents or get knighted or something.” Not only is this some simple advice, it is echoed constitutionally in the emoluments clause! Now, was incorporating this sentiment in our supreme document […]
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added four new cases to its docket for the 2025-26 term, on issues ranging from whether a political candidate can bring a lawsuit challenging Illinois’s procedures for counting votes to the extent of police officers’ ability to enter one’s home under the Fourth Amendment. The justices also denied review […]
The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon, making another request to pause an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that bars the Trump administration from implementing an executive order calling for large-scale reductions in the federal workforce. In Trump v. American Federation of Government Employees, U.S. Solicitor General D. […]
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