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This is a potential breach of rule of professional conduct 8.2, and state bars should investigate it as such. www.americanbar.org/groups/profe...
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is a potential breach of rule of professional conduct 8.2, and state bars should investigate it as such. www.americanbar.org/groups/profe...
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Sideshow Bob also yearned for the days before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a lunch tray and jet off to Raleigh Durham. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-p...
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Sideshow Bob also yearned for the days before every Joe Sweatsock could wedge himself behind a lunch tray and jet off to Raleigh Durham. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-p...
There was a Mass. case where the jurors wore Halloween costumes. They asked permission from the judge who got the consent of all counsel and then allowed it. Appeals court chastised the trial judge but held the issue waived as an appellate issue due to counsels consent law.justia.com/cases/massac...
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
There was a Mass. case where the jurors wore Halloween costumes. They asked permission from the judge who got the consent of all counsel and then allowed it. Appeals court chastised the trial judge but held the issue waived as an appellate issue due to counsels consent law.justia.com/cases/massac...
One of my only professional regrets is that I never appeared before Judge Presley
Judge Matthew Thornhill's burning love for Elvis Presley prompted him to occasionally wear an Elvis wig on the bench — behavior that a judicial conduct commission cited in calling for him to be suspended and then resign. Court documents say he agreed to step down after nearly 20 years on the bench.
Missouri Judge Who Wore Elvis Wig in Court Agrees to Resign
Judge Matthew E.P. Thornhill also talked about politics and played Elvis songs in court, a judicial commission said.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
One of my only professional regrets is that I never appeared before Judge Presley
If prosecution of Comey is a spectacular flop, should Halligan fear for her bar card? At least here in Mass. no lawyer has ever been disciplined for violating Rule Prof C 3.8(a) (prosecutor can only bring case supported by probable cause). But if ABC story is true it would raise a wild ethics issue
October 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
If prosecution of Comey is a spectacular flop, should Halligan fear for her bar card? At least here in Mass. no lawyer has ever been disciplined for violating Rule Prof C 3.8(a) (prosecutor can only bring case supported by probable cause). But if ABC story is true it would raise a wild ethics issue
The Hatch Act had a pretty good run
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The Hatch Act had a pretty good run
It’s depressing to find out after 51 years on planet earth how little the average American cares about some of the fundamental constitutional concepts that I previously thought were obvious to anyone who’d got beyond the 5th grade
September 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It’s depressing to find out after 51 years on planet earth how little the average American cares about some of the fundamental constitutional concepts that I previously thought were obvious to anyone who’d got beyond the 5th grade
Apparently government contracts only for Trump supporters. Good to get that confirmed
June 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Apparently government contracts only for Trump supporters. Good to get that confirmed
I can’t decide if I prefer the narrative that JD Vance somehow killed the Pope, or that the Pope died of despair after meeting JD Vance
April 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I can’t decide if I prefer the narrative that JD Vance somehow killed the Pope, or that the Pope died of despair after meeting JD Vance
Excited that, thanks to tariffs, I’ll soon get to stop being a well-paid in-house lawyer to life sciences companies, so that - after the thing maybe gets built - I can make minimum wage at a T shirt factory. But going to stock up on T Shirts now, since I won’t be able to afford the shirts I make
April 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Excited that, thanks to tariffs, I’ll soon get to stop being a well-paid in-house lawyer to life sciences companies, so that - after the thing maybe gets built - I can make minimum wage at a T shirt factory. But going to stock up on T Shirts now, since I won’t be able to afford the shirts I make
What’s going on with medical devices at FDA? They laid off a couple hundred at CDRH in Feb, then brought them back - is this unit still there?
April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
What’s going on with medical devices at FDA? They laid off a couple hundred at CDRH in Feb, then brought them back - is this unit still there?
Fat fingers for me, but not for thee. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email
The episode, which hasn't been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Fat fingers for me, but not for thee. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Prayers for the Paul Weiss associates who are now going to have to represent Dinesh D’Souza pro bono.
Elon Musk takes aim at Skadden Arps over the firm’s pro bono work in litigation against “2000 Mules” producer Dinesh D’Souza:
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
March 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Prayers for the Paul Weiss associates who are now going to have to represent Dinesh D’Souza pro bono.
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Elon Musk takes aim at Skadden Arps over the firm’s pro bono work in litigation against “2000 Mules” producer Dinesh D’Souza:
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
March 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Elon Musk takes aim at Skadden Arps over the firm’s pro bono work in litigation against “2000 Mules” producer Dinesh D’Souza:
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
“Skadden, this needs to stop now”
if law firms don’t man up now what does the practice of law look like in 5 or 10 years? Instead of delivering results with hard work and legal acumen, will good outcomes flow simply from having partners who are friendly with, say, Don Jr? Practicing law in an authoritarian system must suck.
President Trump on Friday opened a third attack against a private law firm, restricting the business activities of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison just days after a federal judge ruled such measures appeared to violate the Constitution.
Trump Expands Attacks on Law Firms, Singling Out Paul, Weiss
Experts have warned that the president’s efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
if law firms don’t man up now what does the practice of law look like in 5 or 10 years? Instead of delivering results with hard work and legal acumen, will good outcomes flow simply from having partners who are friendly with, say, Don Jr? Practicing law in an authoritarian system must suck.
Maybe she can get a job at one of the t-shirt factories or aluminum smelters that are surely springing up at this very moment
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Maybe she can get a job at one of the t-shirt factories or aluminum smelters that are surely springing up at this very moment
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
one of the most annoying things about social media is that every third post generates a bunch of ding-dongs saying "oh!!!! that's defamation, he should sue!" and then some other group of ding-dongs is like, "Ah, bring it on! We'll get discovery!"
Just as this mental-health comment isn't defamatory
August 28, 2024 at 2:18 AM
one of the most annoying things about social media is that every third post generates a bunch of ding-dongs saying "oh!!!! that's defamation, he should sue!" and then some other group of ding-dongs is like, "Ah, bring it on! We'll get discovery!"
He's got his backup research all ready to go, in furtherance of a strategy that is baffling. Saying Obama was born in Kenya - while repugnant - at least furthered a strategy of making him an "other". But who cares if Harris has lived both halves of her racial identity?
August 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
He's got his backup research all ready to go, in furtherance of a strategy that is baffling. Saying Obama was born in Kenya - while repugnant - at least furthered a strategy of making him an "other". But who cares if Harris has lived both halves of her racial identity?
The most effective way to proofread a legal brief is to read it carefully at least twice, with no distractions, and then sign it, serve it on opposing counsel, and file it in court. Then, go back and re-read it, and the typos and mistakes will become plainly evident. #lawsky
May 10, 2024 at 1:19 PM
The most effective way to proofread a legal brief is to read it carefully at least twice, with no distractions, and then sign it, serve it on opposing counsel, and file it in court. Then, go back and re-read it, and the typos and mistakes will become plainly evident. #lawsky
Where are the experts on New York supersedeas bonds on BlueSky?
he & his lawyers are digging in for potentially years of this via the appeal process, amid a sprawling legal cash crunch, as he’s going around asking advisers if there are any novel legal theories the next Justice Dept (Trump is obviously assuming his) can explore to go after judge Engoron
Godspeed
Godspeed
oh fiddle sticks www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 16, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Where are the experts on New York supersedeas bonds on BlueSky?