by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
Biglaw Firm Adopts Four-Day, In-Person Mandate: At least you get to stay home on Fridays! Not Saying You Did Anything Wrong, But It Does Look Weird: A foreign fund wants Weil to produce documents. Don’t Call The Back-Down A Retreat!: The ABA President has an...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In what movie does James Stewart play defense attorney Paul Biegler? Hint: The book the screenplay was based on was written by Robert Traver — the pen name of Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D....
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
Funny thing about promises of transparency: people will notice gaps in the record. Freshfields talked a big game on their commitment to DEI, but it looks like there’s a proverbial minute missing from the footage. The firm set some huge diversity goals for this side of...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The Gray Reed family is shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of Chloe Childress. She bravely and courageously carried out that mission to the end, and now her legacy shines brightly through the countless...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
Has the era of the midsize firm come to an end? Probably not, but with increasing nationalization and the financial pressures that go along with it, midsize firms are consolidating and a valuable segment (and price point!) may be lost. Lawyers have faced a steady...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) At the end of Chinatown, as our protagonist watches the bad guys win, he’s pulled away and admonished, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” The phrase lives on as a warning when corruption runs so deep that there’s no fighting it. In...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Trump’s rendition cases are starting to bleed into each other. On Monday, plaintiffs in the habeas case for men banished to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador docketed an admission by the Salvadoran government that the United...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
NSO Group builds spyware that authoritarian regimes love. After Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate, NSO’s CEO publicly declared, “We had nothing to do with this horrible murder.” However, leaked data and forensic...
by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
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by HolAdmin | Jul 10, 2025 | American Legal News
It’s pretty hot out this summer, and Biglaw firms think they’ve got the perfect solution for beating the heat: by announcing mandatory office attendance policies. Which firm is the latest to invite attorneys to enjoy their supercool office air conditioning four days a...
