by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! While there’s a sudden relevance to Biglaw layoffs, it’s not nearly as dire as the past. How many lawyers were laid off in Biglaw (based on self-reported numbers) in 2009, widely considered the worst...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined nearly 800 runners in the annual Capital Challenge three-mile road race in Washington on Wednesday, placing sixth among federal judges and 277th overall. Top judicial honors went to U.S. Tax Court Judge Jeffrey Arbeit...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Spirit Airlines was the poster child for customer frustration — an airline that charged passengers for everything except oxygen. Social media and mainstream outlets were filled with jokes and cringeworthy videos about the airline,...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Many law firms try to get invoices out to clients as soon as possible since they believe that the sooner a client gets an invoice, the sooner the client will remit payment. Indeed, many law firms have deadlines for attorneys to submit time entries so that...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
In his opinion functionally striking down the Voting Rights Act, Justice Sam Alito included fake data. In any functional justice system, this disqualifying act of judicial irresponsibility would shock the nation’s conscience. Realizing that a majority of the Supreme...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Forty years of billing hours prepares an attorney for a lot of things. Monday morning with nowhere to be isn’t one of them. The accounts look good. The projections hold up. By every measure that’s visible, retirement should feel within reach. And yet the office is...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I don’t think there’s going to be a huge amount of more culling unless there’s serious financial issues. I just think you’re going to see this at other firms. Paul Weiss is a very strong firm, McDermott is a...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
There comes a time in every high-profile DOJ case when you know something absolutely batshit is about to go down. It starts with the entry of appearance by Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. After a crazed gunman tried to shoot up the White House...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | American Legal News
Mere days after the United States Supreme Court declared that the Voting Rights Act cannot be invoked to bar racially discriminatory gerrymandering as long as state legislators make a halfway plausible claim that the new districts were drawn for purely political...
by HolAdmin | May 9, 2026 | African Golf News
A last-minute penalty try earned the Stormers a draw against Ulster in Belfast on Friday night. Ulster looked to have secured victory when replacement prop Eric O’Sullivan crashed over with five minutes remaining. But in the 80th minute, Stormers wing Leolin Zas went...
