Law students aren’t as sleep-deprived as you might think

Well-reseted compared to future doctors and nurses Law students are getting more shut-eye than many of their peers, according to new research ranking the UK’s most sleep-deprived uni courses. The analysis placed law among the least sleep-deprived subjects, with a score of 24.3 out of 100 on the “sleep deprivation index”. By contrast, nursing, nutrition […]

Former Irwin Mitchell associate billed 23 hours in just one day

‘Inflated’ timesheets leads to strike off A former senior associate at Irwin Mitchell has been struck off after submitting “inaccurate, misleading, and inflated” timesheets — including one day where she recorded nearly 23 hours of chargeable work. Natasha Janet Dionne Fairs, who joined the national firm in 2007 and became a senior associate in 2022, […]

Biglaw Firm Representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia — poster boy for the Trump administration’s slapdash approach to deportations — with a plan to send him to (of all places) Uganda. Which Biglaw firm filed a habeas corpus petition (which […]

Be There For Your Baby’s Birth Or Do Paperwork — See Also

Never Too Young For Aggressive Negotiations: Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland and Young Conaway play dirty. They’ve Arrested Abrego Garcia Again: He just got back and now they’re trying to send him to Uganda. Trump Appeals Biglaw Executive Order Loss: He’s got people on the inside — why wouldn’t he? Pauline Newman Denied Appeal Bid: Wouldn’t it […]

The Biglaw Firm Bucking The Return To Office Trend

This [Husch Blackwell’s fully virtual office, The Link] is working. We figured it out. And I think that people who are most frustrated are the people who were so successful and then enjoyed some of the benefits of it, and now their companies and their firms are saying, ‘well, we don’t care. We want you […]

Donald Trump Goes On The Attack Over Blue Slips

The “blue slip” tradition, requiring home state senator approval for judicial nominees, is back in the news. If the tradition of getting senators to sign off on a president’s judicial nominees — potentially of another political party — seems like it’s from a bygone era, well, you’re not entirely wrong. During Trump’s first term in […]

What If Inflation Is The Big Issue In 2026?

Is it possible that inflation will be the big issue in 2026? Inflation was certainly a big issue in 2024, and it played against the Democrats. Might inflation now play against the Republicans? I’m thinking primarily of the price of essentials: food and electricity. I suspect that the price of food will go up noticeably between now and […]