OH... I see what you did there!Initial pleadings rank among the most boring artifacts of legal writing. There's some flare in briefing an argument. The cease-and-desist process is ripe for sarcasm. Op...
[photo1]Tomorrow at noon the hapless lawyers who ChatGPT-ed themselves onto the front page of the New York Times will appear before US District Judge Kevin Castel to explain why they should not be san...
[photo1]It is now June, and the Supreme Court still has not issued a decision on whether to uphold the Department of Education's plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans. Those who made ...
[photo1]Some people have the absolute worst luck. Like Donald Trump, who suffered an unfortunate incident at Mar-a-Lago last year when a pool flooded and ended up spilling into the server room. That j...
Christopher Wray (via YouTube).House Oversight Chair James Comer is preparing land it like The Hindenberg.Again.The Kentucky Republican seized the gavel in 2023, promising to reveal damning informatio...
He's charged with attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors.That title might sound like a relatively light charge, but the relevant NY penal code provision includes "intentionally us[ing]...
The military, for example, advised President Lyndon Johnson about the Vietnam War: "We can win! We can win! More troops! We can win! We can win! ... Oops! We lose."No one wanted to deliver bad news to...
(Photo by Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty Images)Local Constitution thought-haver Jonathan Turley fired up the Twitter machine -- newly improved with the bought-paid-for blue checkmark -- last night to spell o...
[photo1]Elon Musk has done a lot of gross and terrible things, but taking a wrecking ball to Law Twitter is up there among the worst. In the halcyon days of 2021, we complained about Nazis and trolls ...
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Another day, another story (or ten) about TRUMP LAWYERS GONE WILD. This time the indiscretion was documented by The Guardian's Hugo Lowell, who was apparently at t...
(via YouTube)You've got to give Judge James Ho credit -- he's remarkably committed to the bit. The Fifth Circuit judge nurtures his reputation with the MAGA crowd that could, hypothetically, place him...
[photo1]Attorneys playing with artificial intelligence isn't exactly like handing dynamite to a bunch of pandas -- perhaps fittingly called an "embarrassment" -- but it's close. Everyone got all hot a...
Sorry honey, but sometimes my millionaire boss feels lonely too.Well, you've got to give this unnamed senior partner credit for saying the quiet part out loud.This morning, Skadden announced that it w...
[photo1]A 94-year-old grandmother who lost her condo to a bunch of bureaucrats makes for a pretty good client. When the county government then tries to steal $25,000 from her, she becomes a great clie...
[photo1]While the Chief Justice assures us that he's very "committed" to the cause of judicial ethics that he's blown off for years, Justice Elena Kagan has chosen to do something about it.Former depu...
[photo1]Vittoria Elliott Aarian MarshallRon DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, surely hoped to trend on Twitter after announcing his run for president in an audio stream on the platform tod...
Just before nine last night, Donald Trump screeched this nastygram into the airless void of his social media platform.[photo1]"Dear Attorney General Garland," his attorneys John Rowley and Jim Trusty ...
(Photo by Staci Zaretsky)This Supreme Court has problems. Oh, it almost seems quaint now that the biggest scandal for the nation's highest court a year ago was that someone there leaked a draft opinio...
[photo1]Clients don't like to hear this, but outside counsel are offering a pretty fair deal.Whenever a law firm raises its rates, clients bemoan the added stress to tightening budgets and might lodge...
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)Clarence Thomas BFF #1 Harlan Crow engaged Michael D. Bopp of Gibson Dunn to inform the Senate Judiciary Committee that he won't be cooperating with its inquiry into the hu...