Thought diversity usually gets brought up on this site as a gag example of the diversity that really matters. For the sake of school applications and scholarships, that “thought diversity” usually boils down to “I grew up on a farm which means I think differently” or “Being a collector of novelty Labubus will prepare me […]
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Chatting with the Ninth Circuit judicial conference last week, Justice Elena Kagan complimented Anthropic’s proprietary AI bot Claude for its analysis of the Confrontation Clause. This might be the strongest policy argument for court expansion yet. We desperately need to get this woman some more co-workers. Spending her waking hours […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the latest Partner Satisfaction Survey, powered by Leopard Solutions, what percentage of nonequity partners say their compensation is only slightly more than senior associates? Hint: Nonequity partner compensation dissatisfaction is widespread, with 21% saying they are outright dissatisfied with compensation, and […]
See How Your Memory Compares To The Truth: These law schools are the hardest to currently get into. Pay The Costs To Fight The “Boss”: Milbank is billing lower rates in the cities fighting Trump. Welcome Back?: Colorado dean reappointed following faculty feedback. Kagan Might Support AI More Than Her Colleagues: She appreciated the LLM’s […]
Milbank partner Neal Katyal is working on behalf of New Jersey “sanctuary cities” — specifically Newark and Hoboken — in litigation against the federal government. The Trump administration filed a complaint against Newark and Hoboken (and two other cites) alleging the jurisdictions were “thwart[ing] federal immigration enforcement.” In order to make the representation financially work, […]
A paltry 27 percent of eligible faculty favored reappointing Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss. Meanwhile, some 90 percent of student group leaders solicited for their thoughts also objected to her keeping the job. In response, the University of Colorado Law School decided… to reappoint the dean. At this point, Colorado Law might just be trolling its […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If Q2 is any indication of what midsized firms are doing, then we should expect midsized firms to continue keeping the same amount of space or becoming more efficient with use of their space. — Gregg Cohen, principal at real estate firm Cresa, in […]
The talk of Biglaw — well, besides the Biglaw Biter — is partner David Kreisler’s super short tenure at Mayer Brown. It took him just about two months to wash out at his new firm. Kreisler joined the fund formation practice at Mayer Brown in May, and was out by early July. The reason? Sexually […]
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How can you measure a law school’s worth, aside from the employment statistics of its graduates? Another telling sign of its success may be its selectivity. The latest Princeton Review law school rankings are out, and today, we’ll focus on yet another incredibly important ranking for those who are trying to get into law school […]
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