by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Up To $170K In Bonus Bucks! This firm has already handed out three bonuses, while Biglaw associates are waiting to see if they’ll maybe get one. Purcell Unprincipled: Alabama held its first primary since the Supreme Court jettisoned the Voting Rights Act, and people...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! For most of the 1950s, the U.S. Secretary of State and the Director of the CIA were brothers, running diplomacy and covert operations in tandem under the same president. Before Washington called, both...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a tele–town hall this week as part of his Senate campaign, and one caller decided to skip the small talk. “Hi Paxton, nice to meet you,” she began, sweetly. “I’m just wondering — why did you cheat on your wife?” Honestly? Same....
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The quality of legal education is inseparable from the quality of justice in America. As legal education and the profession confront a period of rapid change, AALS believes it is essential to bring together a...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
When Benito Mussolini sent his followers to march on the capital in 1922, he fully expected to be thrown in jail (or more) for his attempted coup. Instead, he was asked to become prime minister. Mussolini himself stayed in Milan, allowing him to cultivate the sort of...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Jeanine Pirro’s tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been a never-ending shitshow debacle. From the no bills for protesters, to the quashed subpoenas, to the doomed effort to indict sitting members of Congress for making factually correct...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn’t forfeit the firm’s independence, Paul Weiss reportedly seriously debated letting Stephen Miller review the firm’s webpage edits according to the New York Times. The same reporting turned up the...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned out to vote...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
While much of Biglaw is still dragging its feet on associate raises, one elite litigation boutique certainly isn’t making its lawyers wait around for more money. Reid Collins & Tsai is getting ready to hand out its third round of associate bonuses in 2026, and the...
by HolAdmin | Aug 13, 2026 | American Legal News
Let’s not insult each other: it’s highly unlikely that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier watched the Sky-Fever WNBA game this past Saturday. For all the performative concern about the sanctity of women’s sports, no one believes he sat down with a cold one to...
