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All My Friends Hate Con Law: Even the rich and famous ones.

Hope Remains For Student Loan Forgiveness!: Also, how often do you see the use of the word “tiddlywinks” in a legal setting?

Ever Wondered Why Most Of The NFL Higher-Ups Look Like Cracker Barrel Customers?: This suit wants to get to the root of it.

It’s Looking Like Life Even Without The Murder Charge: Sure, crime pays, but it costs a lot of time too.

Having A Rough Day? At Least You Aren’t Ted Frank: We like to look at the bright side, yanno?

Judges Can’t Traumatize Children To Prove A Point?!: I thought this was America!

Erwin Chemerinsky Gives A Lesson On Major Questions: I’ve never been so financially invested in standing doctrine.

Strictly Business: Be on the lookout for employers who care more about their buddies’ egos than their bottom line.

Read This Before You Tie That Knot: Like many contract breaches, ending a divorce can cost you.

Justice Jackson’s Jurisprudence Holds No Shelter For Finder’s Keepers: Take that, Delaware!

What Happened To Reading The Fine Print?: Sometimes it takes a year to issue spot.

Determining If The President Has The Authority To Cancel Loans Is One Thing, But Does The Court?: Here’s a snapshot in to Sotomayor’s brain.

You Know What They Say About Broken Clocks: Take a gander at this rare Judge Ho W.

With Jurists Like These, Who Needs Boxing?: Verbal spats in opinions may not be the best thing for the judiciary. Sure makes reading them more interesting though.

The Power Of The ‘White Panther’ Has Been Stripped Away: Disgruntled Howard Law student sues school for discrimination.

New Law School Rankings Are Out! Where did your law school land?

The Best Defense To False Imprisonment? Being The Judge: Not sure if the handcuffs or the compliment is the creepiest part.

Some Pass The Bar, Others Get Hit By It: Check out the exit data.

Biglaw Is Looking At A Smaller Cohort: Fewer offers this time around. Does that bode well for business?

You Can’t Just “Oops” The Bad Stuff Away: Google gets sued by the DOJ for deleting documents.

Smoking On Top 5s: Get a look at the new (prospective) U.S. News rankings!

A Securities Fraud By Any Other Name: Turns out emojis don’t protect you from legal liability.

A Word To The Stressed — Help Is Out There: You have to reach for it though.

There’s More To Biglaw Than Bonuses: Get in the know with The Jabot.

Hey ABA, Have You Considered Adding A Gun Module To Lawyer Ethics? Clement Vallandigham would be seething right now.

Sometimes Being The Best Is Being The Most Available: Talk about right place right time.

Data Says In-House Is In-Trouble: Here’s a deep dive.

Now That’s One Way To Violate Local Court Rules: Learn from this Biglaw partner’s mistakes.

The Blue Ribbon Commission Exposed The Tying Process: This is why you have to check for the meta data.

Whose Child Is It Anyway? Will Oklahoma’s recent ruling on parentage have unforeseen spillover?

Wish You Had A Clue On What The Justices Will Ask About Student Loan Forgiveness? Here’s a primer.

You Saw What On YouTube?! SCOTUS hears how Section 230 should interact with aiding terrorist organizations.

With The Arguments Elon Musk’s Lawyers Are Making, Who Needs ChatGPT’s Creative Writing Prompts? Get a load of this human intelligence.

Nothing Says Sisyphean Like Trying To Get Rid Of The LSAT: Remember the decision the ABA just had? Yeah, they’ll have a new one in August.

Keeping Up With Constitutional Law: Kim K’s legal learning saga continues.

Even Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About That: State Secrets Privilege protects the NSA again.

Sometimes Less Is More Justice: Baldwin’s charge reduced after pointing out an ex post facto.

For Whom The Paycheck Protects: Larson Latham Huettl’s bad publicity is even more shameful once you check the receipts.

Bonds Stronger Than Money: Since when does academia pay this well?

A Northwestern Professor Of Law And Finance Gets Accused Of Stealing $1.5 Million: He’s not too happy about the judge’s opinion of him.

Larson Wins The Money Of Underbilling Associates: But is it worth the loss in the court of public opinion?

YouTube Might Be Liable For Your Content: Section 230 finds itself in the hot seat.

Paralegal Who Ripped His Shirt And Challenged An Associate To A Fight Now Practices At The Firm Like Nothing Happened: Wild times.

Allen & Overy’s Equal Opportunity Policy Extends To Non-Humans Too: They’re going all in on AI.

Trump Hasn’t Been Exonerated: But that’s obviously not stopping him from claiming “total exoneration” by the Georgia grand jury.

A Statue For Clarence Thomas? This state senator just can’t support such a thing, and called the SCOTUS justice an “Uncle Tom.”

Want To Value Your Law School Classroom Experience? Give these elite law schools a try.

Always Be Interviewing: Your future job may depend upon it.

Working From Home Isn’t Causing Data Breaches: Nope, not even if firm leadership says it is.

Hey, Aimless Grad With A Liberal Arts Degree, Read This! There are ways to find “yourself” that don’t cost $150k.

That Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You Shouldn’t Go To Law School Though: Here’s some advice for (aspiring) first-gen law students.

Get Your Time’s Worth! 40% of firms are still working for yesterday’s price. Get with the times!

King Twit Has Found A Replacement For Perkins Coie: Farr out, dude.

I Know Lawyers Are Bad At Math, But Come On Now: Even I’d notice if someone went from $10M to $12. I think.

Florida Man Has A Right To Counsel: Diploma privilege could get him the representation he needs.

I Am… Invulnerable: ChatGPT has a definite outlook on how it would fare in legal settings.

The Cost Of Billing Those Hours Is Deadly: There is more to life than billables. Take care of yourselves.

The Multimillion-Dollar Texas Two-Step Finds Its Way To Jersey: If only it were as easy to finesse student loans as it is to finesse those hurt by big business.

Something Is Rotten In Mexico: Kim Williams suspects foul play at this resort.

Whoa There, Partner! Proskauer big wigs are getting to the root of alleged workplace harassment.

You Don’t Gotta Like The Guy, But You Probably Shouldn’t Hate Him: A Massachusetts court has to figure out if hating a person for what they are is a conflict of interest.

The Difficult Route Can Be Costly: Gibson Dunn and Meta get caught being obtuse. Now they have to pay for it.

Get With It Or Get Gone: Exclude ChatGPT from your lawyerly toolkit at your own peril.

Breaking Up Is Never Easy: Procopio goes though a round of layoffs.

Hey Law Students, Don’t Miss This Exam! You only get a chance at the $500 if you try!

Interested In Successfully Snagging That State Clerkship? Check to see if your school is on the list!

Is It The Content Of Their Applications Or Their Bank Accounts? Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, and Co. will have to open the admissions black box for an antitrust lawsuit.

Your Most Zealous Advocate Has To Be You: Tune in to The Jabot to get the life advice you need to get ahead.

ChatGPT May Not Be Ready To Practice Law, But It Is Ready To Rhyme About It: Check out these mad funky fresh bars.

Perkins Coie Just Cut A Major Perk Of Working There: Nobody likes a billable hours requirement increase.

Judges Are Being Asked To Put The Equity In Economics: Should a federal court be able to decide a state school’s price tag?

Let’s Get This Over With Quickly: Goodwin got layoffs out of their system so we’re done with them. Right?

If You Don’t Have Corporate Email, Gmail Is Fine: Troutman employees forced to work around widespread technical issues.

Checking For A Federal Clerkship? These Are Your Dream Schools: One of the listed schools strikes close to home!

Law Students Aren’t The Only Ones Getting Help From ChatGPT: Don’t worry clerks, you’ve still got some job security. For now.

Mississippi Prepares To Bypass Democracy And Just Appoint The White Officers And Judges They Want: I miss when the biggest issue was just gerrymandering.

Layoffs Are Upon Us: Shearman got to shearing at their associate and staff count.

You Gotta Have More Proof Than That: This Biglaw partner has to do a better job of bringing receipts.

Did You Get In To One Of The Most Selective Law Schools? Lo and behold, the list doesn’t track U.S. News rankings!

After Careful Decision, The ABA Thinks Civil War Loser Memorabilia Shouldn’t Be In Courthouses: You’d have thought they came to this decision ages ago.

Greenberg Traurig Can Now Say Yay After Dropping Ye: No one firm should have such a difficult client.

Finally, A Reason To Drink! Here’s your guide to making the State of The Union bearable.

Looking For A School That Puts Some Actions Behind Their Attention To Diversity Claims? See if your law school is on the list.

Biglaw Is Preparing For A Slim Down: Might want to invest part of your last bonus into a new belt.

Odd One Out — This Biglaw Firm Is Feeling The Pre-Valentine’s Day Loneliness: And by that, I mean no one wants to merge with them.

Baker McKenzie Belgium Just Pulled The “I Said ‘A’ Not ‘Er’” Defense: The Blackface being cultural probably won’t fare well either.

That’s One Way To Land Paid Time Off: A jury awards a staff attorney $1.1m in a religious free speech claim connected to taking off for high holidays.

Maybe Justice Jackson Shouldn’t Be The Only One Recusing From The Affirmative Action Cases…: Data shows the candidates selected for Supreme Court clerkships are about as diverse as you’d expect.

Don’t Throw Out Those LSAT Prep Books Yet! The ABA decides to keep admissions tests.

Judges Are The New Ballot: Statistically speaking, judges are gaming to weaken your votes now more than ever.

Maybe He Should Have Spent Less Time Blocking Yale Students And Reading Their Outlines Instead: “Textualist” Judge Ho proves he didn’t even read the cases he cited to let domestic abusers have guns.

With Faculty Like This, Who Needs Enemies? You’d think a law school dean would know better than to allegedly do that with a minor.

Who Needs Prestige When You Could Have Livable Learning Conditions? Check to see if your law school is on the party pooper list.

If Only The People Serving Hard Time For Marijuana Possession Were Law Students: Texas judge commutes defendant’s punishment for moving 28.5 keys of weight to completing her JD.

Now, Say It Like You Mean It: A judge compels a defendant to publicly apologize. Why is that constitutional?

Philly Politicians Refuse To Begin Process To Rename A Street Glorifying Justice Taney For… Reasons? Somebody should send Gritty to handle business.

The Firm Is Like A Family, And It Is Getting Bigger! Mergers are merging it up.

The Fire Eventually: Even the CATO Institute thinks the whole cops murdering unarmed people thing is getting out of hand.

Jones Passes Up On This Day In Court: The firm leaders are presumably tired of having to scrub the Cheeto dust from their hands after representing 45.