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Former Pillsbury Attorney Making Bread Isn’t The Controversy They Think It Is: Yes, this Supreme Court spouse is getting money. No, there isn’t any known association with insurrectionists.

One Of The Perks Of Working From Home? Less Chatty Kathys: Here’s an in-depth look at the consequences of in-person kibitzing.

Copycats Don’t Always Land On Their Feet: Somebody learned that copy and pasting has legal consequences…

It’s Like Stealing Candy From A Baby! A Very Old Baby: This former judges’ time as an apparent embezzler may wreck havoc on his judicial career.

Looking To Get A ROI After Your Degree And Stolen Chick-Fil-A Food?: Check out the best law schools for getting a job post JD.

These Ethics Are Strictly Business: Joe tears through right wing “Cancel Culture took muh job!” arguments by tracing the paper trail.

Few Things Trump A Legal “This You?”: Ari Melber brought the receipts to this cross examination.

We Spent Money On Décor, Now Look At It!: Biglaw firms lament that their employees would rather send in work from the comfort of their homes than the corner office.

Moral Arguments Aren’t Enough For Bankruptcy: Judges aren’t buying J&J’s ethical arguments for why they should two step for alleged talcum powder victims.

Wrong Side Of The Law: Biglaw legal secretary caught attempting to get far too familiar with an underaged boy.

Judge R. David Proctor’s Reprimanding Would Have Made The Bard Proud: You know things are bad when someone insults you in Shakespeare.

As Great As Academic Freedom Is, Sure Wish This Guy Would Shut Up: Law Professor Robert Steinbuch takes a break from educating to be a bigot.

This Is Why You Get Insurance, People! Law firm nonplussed after $62M loss thanks to insurance.

Finally, Some Musical Copyright That Isn’t A JoJo’s Episode: These rock musicians faced a hurdle getting the rights to their music back.

Manners, People! The shift back to working-from-work may require a manners adjustment.

Drinks McGee Isn’t Too Happy About US News: See what the Patron Justice of Beer has to say.

Even The Non-Human Can See The Inhumanity Of Biglaw Hours: Not only is ChatGPT a better law student than you were, but a better poet to boot!

E Tu, AI: A timely reminder that our compulsion to gatekeep doesn’t really factor in how much legal minutia already depends on our robotic overlords.

A Room Of One’s Own: Former judge cleared of ethical violations after getting caught yelling slurs on video.

A ‘No’ Would Have Sufficed: Law professor has an issue after failing to issue spot his hot mic.

Guess Who’s Coming To Lecture: These accusations paint a visiting professor as bad company.

I Know Things Are Adversarial, But Come On Now: AG wants Madison Garden to stop being big meanies to opposing counsel.

It Is Official! ChatGPT Will Not Cali The Exam! It did beat the curve a couple times though…

Harvard Implements Some Lex Et Iustitia: Read about their $500k investment in history.

Guess Which Firm’s Profits Are Soaring: Also, Joe made a funny! And then explained the joke…

However Good You Think You’re Doing Probably Isn’t Good Enough: Got a 90-day performance target? Might wanna update your LinkedIn.

With Caveats Like This, Who Needs Vacation Time? Bryan Cave’s time-off program lets you bill leisure hours to the firm.

$62M Is A Phenomenal Amount Of Money To Bring To The Firm! It is also a phenomenal amount to lose.

Keeping The Hate In Free Speech: Yale not only invites back a hate group, they do the best to keep out any undesirables.

The DOJ Thinks Google’s AdSense Isn’t Adding Up: They better have a googolplex of in-house counsel.

This Proskauer Case Is Heating Up! Few things stoke frustration like (allegedly) taking 34 gigabytes of internal data.

Is This The Era Of ERA? New York prepares to put women’s rights on the ballot.

RBG Will Forever Live On In Our Memories And The History Books: Not so much on Pete Davidson’s skin, though.

One Doesn’t Really Just “Pass” The Bar: Liz Gil makes her debut by sharing her hang-ups on the bar exam.

Most People Look At Law School As An Investment: These schools have much quicker returns.

A Rose By Any Other Name Didn’t Pay For Accolades: Ever wondered about those lawyer honorifics beyond Esquire? Here’s a primer.

Lawyers-To-Be Use Their Love Of Ranking To Do A Misogyny: Isn’t this just a more legal version to the plot of that Facebook documentary?

Kid YouTubers Can Make A Lot Of Money, But Who Gets It? We might wanna modify the Coogan Act for 2023.

The Paul Hasting Slander Continues Post Haste: Do people really not have anything better to do?

Elon Musk Takes The Stand In A Securities Fraud Case: The jury will determine if he’s a stand-up guy.

Since When Do Progressives Want Three Times As Many Police? Harvard Law professors use their Crim Law students to farm copaganda.

Looking Behind The Textualism: Joe shows you what’s really happening behind the SCOTUS leak report.

This Law Firm Kept Their Word On Supporting Reproductive Health: Can’t make everyone happy, though.

…I Don’t Think That’s How Gifts Work: A descendant of T.C. Williams wants the University of Richmond to give him $50m.

Unexpected Warmth In January! Few things keep the heat on like bonuses.

Blue Lies Don’t Matter: Stanford Law student proves that police get special treatment when it comes to past-act admissibility.

The Supreme Court’s Accountability Measures Are Less Super Than One Would Expect: The investigation on the Dobbs leaker turned up goose egg. Next phase, the Court’s spouses?

Affirmative Action Ain’t The Only Thing Getting Nixed This Year: Equal votes isn’t really looking up in South Carolina, and the Supreme Court is to blame.

Alec Baldwin Charged With Involuntary Murder: Maybe we should stop wishing people break a leg, just to be safe and all.

Same Work, More Money: You know the deal. Bonuses are coming. Click and salivate.

Is AI Art More Criminal Than Creative? A Class Action Suit Could Get Us Closer To Finding Out: This is all Naruto’s fault, believe it!

I Know Grudges Cut Deep, But This Is Heinous: Lawyer accused of stabbing another lawyer over long-standing grudge.

So A South Dakotan Walks Into A Bar… And Their Mom Tries To Get It Removed!: Representative Fitzgerald provides support for diploma privilege.

Everything Being Bigger In Texas Doesn’t Make It More Accurate: Take a gander at which law school submitted the wrong information to U.S. News.

Extra, Extra! Read All About It: Fresh off the presses, Ye just got dumped by Greenberg Traurig. The firm is now rumored to be dating Pete Davidson.

A Good Resolution Would Be To Stay Out Of Court All Of 2023: If that was Elon Musk’s resolution, it isn’t going too well.

Ever Know Someone Who Would Date A Person Just Like You But Not You? Goodwin laid off a bunch of lawyers before hiring replacements within the month.

I Praise Your Pardon: Musical prison reformer pardoned right before MLK day.

Save The Midnight Oil: 3rd Circuit proposes changing the filing deadline so folks can get home to their families for dinner. In theory. Probably not in practice.

What’s That Lassie? You’re In Biglaw?!: Slaughter & May has a killer Bring Your Pet to Work Day.

Laurence Finds A New Tribe: Prominent law professor lands his first firm gig. Woe to the first partner that tries to correct his work.

Corporate People Can Be Ethical Too: Downsizing doesn’t have to mean screwing over.

A Jab At Biden Could Be A Haymaker For Trump: The hubbub about special documents really cuts differently when you don’t follow the rules.

Bonus Season Ain’t Over!: Hear the good news from WSGR.

Happy MLK Day!

Forgery May Have Been The Least Heinous Thing This Lawyer Did: He’s really not helping the “lawyers are bad people” stereotype.

GEICO May Want To Consider Offering Prophylactics With Their Insurance: GEICO gets a second bite at the apple after being screwed over car sex.

As Much As It Is What You Know, Who You Know Doesn’t Hurt Either: Sometimes, it may be a good idea to hire your friend as counsel.

Representation Matters: A little spite success can’t hurt either.

Speaking Of Getting Sick Of Steve Bannon: He just developed an allergic reaction to his own counsel.

Legal Writing Is About To Get A Lot More Technical: Law school dean wants a novel program undergrads use to write papers without doing the reading to be added to the curriculum.

Maternity Leave Is Not “Sitting On Your Ass”: Getting caught discriminating against moms can get you put on your ass though.

Sometimes Nature Makes The Judgment Call: Judge steps down over shoulder issues before (potentially) getting her ass handed to her in an ethics complaint.

The Republicans Are Demanding Meat Pics Again: A hunger this deep for beef makes Arby’s customers look vegan.

At Some Point, Free Speech Became A Shorthand For “Let Republicans Say Whatever They Want”: Just listen to this free-speech advocating 11th Circuit judge bemoan censorship on one hand and advocate for “speech codes” on the other.

This Lawyer May Have Just Set Up The Easiest Workplace Discrimination Lawsuit Of 2023 Thus Far: Discovery? Dude, I can just forward you the text message.

No, Donna, You Can’t Just Inherit An N-Word Pass: Chicago attorney embarrassed to discover that slurs don’t automatically mute your Zoom audio.

Nobody Likes A Backseat Driver:A state Supreme Court Justice’s unsolicited opinions toward his colleagues earns some harsh criticism.

First You Had My Debt, But Now You Have My Interest: Biden’s plan to nix compound interest on student loans still has legs.

Layoffs Are Coming: And I thought winter was the worst season.

While I’m Not Sure Of The Best Way To Get Laid, Being Laid Off Is Probably One Of The Worst: Stroock just conducted a round of layoffs.

Keeping The You In Team: This firm vowed to keep their associates and staff amidst layoff season.

Paying Your Debt To Society Still Carries A Tab: Law clerk pressured to step down over something that happened when Bill Clinton was in office.

Totally Competent Man Proves How Knowledgeable He Is By Hiring A Firm He Hates To Defend Him: Yes, it is Elon Musk.

AI Meets JD: This quick trick could make you a millionaire. Would probably piss off Clarence Thomas too.

Opinions aren’t the only thing she’s penning: Justice Jackson takes the jump into authoring via memoir.

No better way to start the year off than with passive aggression: I’m beginning to think Jones Day wants employees back in the office.

Want to know where the money resides?: Check out Top 50 Compensation List!

The best time to give your roses is while the receiver can smell them: The second best time is right before you go.

Happy Insurrection Day!: What better way to celebrate than catch up on the people who faced very little consequences for the failed coup.

You know that weird part of the last few years where even leftists looked back fondly at the Bush administration after seeing what Trump did?: At this rate, future party leadership could make us miss Trump.

Michigan Supreme Court’s new Justice is the first of many: She must have killed the “So why do you want to work here?” part of the interview.

Rule 1 is that you should not misuse client funds: Not sure what number it is, but not misusing federally granted funds is also probably high up on that list.

As expected, counsel defending the “Grab her by the pussy” guy doesn’t seem to have the strongest grasp on little notions like “consent” and “violations of another’s autonomy”: Trump’s counsel argues that raping a woman doesn’t count as a “distinct injustice”.

This New Year’s Resolution? Make friendships out of competitors: This firm merger will be a force to reckon with.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: Not sure if layoffs are the worst, but they’re still pretty bad.

1 is an accident. 15,000 is a class action lawsuit: Southwest prepares for a very rough forecast.

Making a killing is enough: UC Law SF sheds its name tie with an agent of genocide.

How do you get fired on your day off?: Proskauer’s temporary restraining order against their former COO prevents him from even working with the competition.

Together at last: The Holland & Knight and Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis merger shows at least some firms are getting along together.