by HolAdmin | Dec 2, 2025 | American Legal News
As I was drafting this piece, Cloudflare experienced an outage that froze the AI tools I needed for background information. The outage lasted several hours. Imagine if I’d been working on a brief due in an hour. While the legal profession debates AI hallucinations,...
by HolAdmin | Dec 1, 2025 | American Legal News
Eleventh Circuit Won’t Save Trump And Habba From Sanctions: The American presidency goes from “a million points of light” to “a million dollars in legal sanctions” in a generation. Milbank Makes Biglaw Bonus Amounts Official: The firm finally weighed in and matched...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Did Your Firm Announce Bonuses Yet?: We made it easy for you to catch up on (or rush) the compensation! These Firms Did!: Linklaters, Clifford Chance. Dumb Costs: Trump and Habba have to pay for their failures. With cash. The Search For A Missing Lawyer Continues:...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
What lawyer first came up with the concept of canned cranberry sauce? Hint: It was part of an effort to extend the selling period of his staple crop. Years after canned cranberry sauce had become mainstream, he said of the innovation, “I felt I could do something for...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
Sen. Jim Justice of West Virginia and his wife, Cathy, reached an agreement with the I.R.S. to pay over $5 million in back federal income taxes. This agreement comes hours after the Department of Justice’s Tax Division filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against...
by HolAdmin | Nov 27, 2025 | American Legal News
When I was in law school, negotiation was not a required class (it now is). Still, the reputation of our negotiation program and negotiation faculty convinced me negotiation would be more than worthwhile to take as an elective. I learned a lot in that course, and...