Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Federal judge issues new nationwide block against Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship (Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN) Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she worries about state of democracy […]
Three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who were fired by President Donald Trump in May urged the Supreme Court on Friday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Maryland that required the Trump administration to reinstate them to their jobs. Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka, all of […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Sure, we’ve experienced some attrition. All law firms do. — Marc Kasowitz, managing partner and co-founder of Kasowitz (formerly known as Kasowitz Benson Torres), in comments given to Law.com, concerning the firm’s recent spate of partner exits, including co-founder Dan Benson, who decided to […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) If you were under the impression that the Attorney General of Missouri had a duty — legal, ethical, or even just cosmetic — to use his office to improve the lives of citizens in a state already losing the race in crime, health, education, economic opportunity… Andrew Bailey is here […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by LexisNexis, which Biglaw firm secured work as debtor-side lead counsel on eight “mega” bankruptcy cases so far in 2025, the most of any Biglaw firm? Hint: Mega bankruptcy cases are Chapter 11 filings involving $100+ million, 1,000+ creditors, […]
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This Time It’s Duane Morris: Which Biglaw firm will be the next to hop on the trend? Never A Bad Time To Call Out Stupidity: Marc Randazza wrote a response to a cease and desist you can only dream of sending out. About Harvard’s Negotiations With Trump: They scrubbed diversity mentions from several of their […]
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The Trump administration has been going out of their way to give Harvard a hard time. They’ve withheld billions in federal funding for research from them, limited Harvard’s ability to attract and retain students from abroad and recently decided that the school hasn’t done enough to fight antisemitism on campus. After accruing some serious leverage […]
It’s wild what a difference five years makes. In, say, 2019 (notably pre-Covid), if you said the new Biglaw trend was four days in the office I’d think work/life balance was finally having its moment and firms were actually making progress to prevent burnout. But it is 2025, and requiring four days of office face […]
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