Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. THEY MIGHT BE LAUGHING their way to the bank but they aren’t crowing about it. Not openly, at least. And who can blame them? It’s embarrassing to talk about selling your soul for profit. I’m […]
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* Supreme Court authorizes Trump administration to begin racially profiling Latinos — and anyone authorities think looks Latino — in another shadow docket special. [The Nation] * Review calls Amy Coney Barrett’s new book “studiously bland,” which perfectly captures the lane she’s cynically trying to claim for herself. [NY Times] * State judge who ruled […]
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Midlevels Are Dealing With Crappy Technology: Some say the laptops are “borderline unusable.” Tariff Case Headed To SCOTUS: Scott Bessent is damn near bragging about winning already. “Becoming Thurgood” Releases Tomorrow: Be sure to watch & learn! Is That A Mariachi I Hear?: Megan Thee Stallion’s lawyers give Adin Ross a lesson in civil procedure. […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! So far, who is the youngest pick for a federal judgeship in the Trump II reign? Hint: The jurist — born in 1990 — was sworn into his lifetime position on the Eastern and Western District of Missouri in July. See the answer […]
If you work in-house and you’re not treating your vendor contracts like strategic assets, you’re overlooking one of the most valuable sources of operational insight. In a recent episode of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” legal ops leader Navin Mahavijiyan explained how most legal teams are sitting on a treasure trove of data without realizing […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Think for a minute about coercion. If another country changes its trade policies in a way that hurts the United States, then the United States — probably through Congressional action — should be able to respond by changing the United States’ trade policy. Perhaps even the president, without Congressional approval, […]
Are you there, Donald? It’s me, John. (Photo by Jabin Botsford – Pool/Getty Images) Exercising tremendous restraint, Chief Justice Roberts managed not to write “Executor? I hardly knew her!” on this morning’s opinion functionally overruling Humphrey’s Executor. Alas, that was the only restraint Roberts mustered today, employing the infamous “shadow docket” to toss 90 years […]
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