Paul Weiss & Kirkland Are Working To Stay On Trump’s Good Side: Commerce work is on the more neutral end of what they could be doing. Where Are The Client Service All-Stars?: See if your firm is on the list! Trump Is Merely A Fraud!: He’s pretty happy about no longer having to pay the […]
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the latest Vault ranking, which Biglaw firm took the top spot for best White Collar Defense & Internal Investigations practice? Hint: The D.C.-based firm moved up the ranking from the #2 spot last year. See the answer on the next page. […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The bottom line is that it is coming. There are many, many firms who believe firmly that it is going to have a pretty significant impact on the way they work and their leverage models. — Gretta Rusanow, managing director and head of advisory […]
According to news reports, there’s an active shooter situation at Villanova University. The Radnor Township Police Department are on the scene and issued a shelter in place order to residents and students. The alert from the university provided some more specific information. That alert asks folks to steer clear of the law school building, John […]
Alina Habba’s tenure as the not-really-U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey reached another predictable milestone today as Judge Matthew Brann disqualified Habba from a criminal prosecution on the grounds that she doesn’t actually have the job in any legal sense. Brann, the chief judge of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, heard the case […]
Last week, Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan was arrested and charged with trespassing after an alcohol-fueled incident in front of a restaurant. And that would be bad enough, but the arresting officer’s body cam footage was released and it tells a tale that’ll be a lot harder to live down than […]
The good news for Donald Trump is that a New York appellate nixed the nearly half-billion dollar disgorgement judgment the Trump Organization owed for consistently defrauding financial institutions. The bad news is that the fractured court still agreed with the underlying judgment and his business operations are rightly enjoined. Trump’s camp is declaring total vindication […]
A few years ago, a programmer went viral — in was 2020, so maybe not the best phrasing — after seeing a job listing requiring “4+ years of experience in FastAPI.” Quite the feat, he noted, since he was the guy who invented FastAPI only 1.5 years earlier. The modern law firm partnership track feels […]
The Obstinate Witness Every trial lawyer encounters them – the witness who refuses to agree with even the most obvious point. Show them a photo of their car, and they claim they cannot recognize it. Confront them with a prior statement, and they insist it is inaccurate. This is a strategy to frustrate you, to block you, and to control […]
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