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Federal Judges Gone Wild

Sex In Chambers Met With Slap On Wrist

Judge Orders Law Firm To Write Lesson On How Not To Be Naughty Lawyers

Don't Let The Client Write The Brief As A Treat

Stealth Layoffs And Sam Alito On Tilt

Are There Any Adults Left At The Department Of Justice?

Kash Patel's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Law Firms Are Drowning In Cash. Trump's PAC Is Drowning In Legal Bills.

Rankings Drama Hits Law Schools, Law Firms

Trump's Awful No Good Day At The Supreme Court

Afroman And Elon Had Very Different Trial Experiences

AI Hallucinations And Judicial Derangements

John Roberts Suffers The Slings And Arrows Of Pure Rage Trump

Supreme Court Airs Dirty Laundry

AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers

Epstein Fallout Rocks Legal As Admin Tries To Deflect From ICE

Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability

Trump's Cook Case Looks Cooked

Alienating Our Affections

Minnesota Becoming A Constitutional Law Issue-Spotter

2026 Prediction Time!

A Look Back At The 2025 Dumpster Fire

Closing Out The Year With Mergers And Attacks On The Rule Of Law

At Least The Robots In The Coming War Against Humans Will Understand War Crimes

This Is Why We Have Bar Exams

A Bad Week For Trump's Fake U.S. Attorneys

Bonus Season Begins In Earnest

Maybe The Legal Industry Has Just Lost All Sense Of Shame

If The DOJ Fails Another Time, They Win A Free Sandwich

A Riot By Any Other Name...

Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law

No, Your Honor, I Didn't Call You That, I Was Talking About, Um, Bundt Cake

On Campus Hiring Is Broken, And This Isn't Helping

Is This The Beginning Of The End For The Bar Exam?

All The Cool Kids Are Passing The Bar, All The Cooley Kids... Not As Much

Nothin' Says Lovin' Like A Benchslap

A Tale Of Two Supreme Court Book Tours

The Fundamental Dishonesty Of The Supreme Court

DOJ Has Egg On Its Face

2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume

The Sandwich Is Mightier Than The Sword

Missing: Biglaw's Summer Bonus Matches

The Bar Exam Death Drive Becomes Dangerously Literal

Lawyers Getting Really High On AI Hallucinations

Who Knew Biting Other Lawyers Was Frowned Upon?

The Hallucinations Are Winning

Supreme Court A Hot Mess

You Catch More Judges With 'Honey' Than With Vinegar

The Jerkstore Called, They're Not Running Out Of Lawyers

So Long And Thanks For All The Bonuses

Sex Asteroids, Sleazebags, And Meme Police

Supreme Court Just Making It Up As It Goes Along

Are Those Seashells In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Threatening An Assassination?

Bold Strategy Biglaw, Let's See If It Pays Off

Biglaw Firms Fighting Trump Keep Winning, Capitulators Keep Losing

Even Judges Aren't Safe In Trump's America

Biglaw Brings In Big Bucks

Law School Ranking Chaos And Biglaw Trump Deals Turn Sour

Biglaw Surrender Fallout Continues

Fight Or Flight... The Biglaw Conundrum

Paul Weiss Waves The White Flag

Biglaw Struggling To Deal With Trump Chaos

John Roberts Realizes He Made A Huge Mistake

Diddy Lawyer Decides He Gotta Move On

Who Needs Caselaw Anyway?

Someone Needs To Come Get These Junior Associates

Insurer Spending On Lawyers Rather Than, You Know, Healthcare

400th Episode Spectacular

First Thing We Do, Let's Fire All The Lawyers

Tom Goldstein Should've Stuck With High Stakes Go Fish

Back To The Office Blues

Judges Decide Clarence Thomas Was Just Confused When He Didn't Report All That Money

Ho, Ho, Ho-Cast

Lawyers Who Do Lunch

Replacing Judges With AI And Other Stupid Ideas

Law School Thought Pregnant Women Not Like Us

Law Firm Confidentiality Can't Be Left To The Honor System

Judge Throws Temper Tantrum

Biglaw Bonus Season Arrives!

Sir Sam Alito Decides No Pesky 'Constitution' Governs Him

There's No Studying In Here, This Is The Library!

In 2024 The GOP Is A Big Fan Of Teen Pregnancy

Learning How To Be A Professional

Judge Decides To Just Make Up The Rules As She Goes Along

Eric Adams Must Really Hope Supreme Court Is Serious About Blowing Up Bribery Laws

Debbie Does The Dormant Commerce Clause

The Urge To Merge

What is up with these federal judges?

Biglaw's Back To Office Misadventures

Disney Lawyers Learn That Discretion Is The Better Part Of Valor

Who Will Join Milbank's Summer Bonus Party?

Another Bar Exam In The Books

Overpaid Partners, Nikki Haley Lashes Out, And Judge Might Want To Chill

Yale Law School Not Sending Its Best

Judges Behaving Badly

Biglaw's Big Billing Bonanza

Supreme Court Goes Out In Blaze Of Mendacity

Law Firm Summer Bonuses Have Started... Will They Continue?

New Law School Rankings And Old Supreme Court Drama

Clarence Thomas Turned Supreme Court Service Into An ATM Machine

Trump's Lawyers Somehow Doing A Worse Job On TV Than In Court

Sam Alito's In Distress Of His Own Making

You're A Grand Old Flag, You're An Upside-Down Flag

Trump Defense Team Playing Tiddlywinks At A Chess Match

The Gag Order Pt. 10

The First Law Of Whoever Smelt It, Dealt It

Alienating The Judge And Jury Seems Like A Bold Strategy For Trump

A Big Week For Not Knowing The Law

US News Rankings Continue Slide Into Bonkerstown

Supreme Court, Disney, And Trump -- A Wild Week In Review

Did Joe Biden Get More Standing Ovations At The State Of The Union Or On Cold Call

Biglaw's Parental Leave Backslide

Too Rich For Trump's Blood

Return To Office Policies Attempt To Catch Bees With Vinegar

Hard To Say Where Arrested Lawyer Went Wrong But Posting About Selling Drugs Probably Didn't Help

It Pays To Be A Delusional Hack

Habba Dabba Doo!

I Screwed Up Basic Trial Procedure And All I Got Was This Lousy Swimsuit: The Alina Habba Story

Alina Habba Goes Full Lionel Hutz In Latest Trump Trial

Donald Trump's Legal Team Decides Not To Ask Permission OR Forgiveness

Roberts Explains That Artificial Intelligence Can't Replace Judges Because How Would Billionaires Fly An AI To Luxury Resorts Anyway?

2023 Year In Review

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Rudy's Wallet

The Firm's Doing Great... Also We're Doing Layoffs.

Breaking Down The Great Biglaw Raise Of 2023

Paging Rule 11

Trump Complained About Us In His Mistrial Motion And All We Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Do You Know Where Your Raises Are?

Some Clients Aren't Worth The Risk For Biglaw... And, Yes, We Mean Donald Trump

No More Room In This World For Two Ampersands

But, Maybe, Logic Games Were… Good?

Dispatches From The End Of Analog Lawyering

One Day You're Getting Cold Called And The Next Day You're Shooting Up Cars

It Was Only A Matter Of Time Before We Had To Talk About This Again

Fifth Circuit Gets Way More Originalist Than You Thought Possible

Biglaw Firm Offers Racy, Expensive Summer Event Before No-Offering Summers Anyway

Amy Coney Barrett Wants Her Cake And To Enact Sweeping Constitutional Rewrites Too

The Law, The Law! It's Chock Full Of Clowns. Dubious Lawsuits Up And Productivity's Down!

What In The World Is James Ho Thinking?

Well, The Jerk Store Called...

Supreme Court's Bitter Battle Over Ethics

So, Are We Just Ignoring The Supreme Court Now?

Gunners Gonna Gun -- Even On Their Wedding Day

'Supreme Court Ethics' Achieves Oxymoron Status

Elon Musk Is Having A Very Litigious Week

Justice Alito Doth Protest Too Much

This Is Why You Need To Pay Your Lawyers

Donald Trump Got Indicted For Toilet Espionage But We Still Need To Talk About This Bear Cop

Free Speech Hypocrisy, Hot Bench Troubles, And ChatGPT Legal Research

Biglaw's 4-Day Mandatory Office Week Is A Big Gamble

Ron DeSantis Is A Walking Law School Exam Of What Not To Do

Finally We Have U.S. News Law School Rankings... And They're Weird

How Have We Not Yet Hit The Bottom Of The Clarence Thomas Scandal?

Bold Proposal: Let's Just Convict People Of Crimes We Can Prove They Committed

The Supreme Court Ethics Scandal That Just Won't End

Clarence Thomas: The Convenient Textualist

What's Half A Million Dollars Among Friends And Easily Corruptible Government Figures?

Disney's Newest Princess Dooms Ron DeSantis

Biglaw Office Policies: You Catch More Associates With Honey Than Vinegar

Federal Judge Turns Law School Event Into Pro Wrestling Style Spectacle

Federal Judge Didn't Know Handcuffing Crying Children Was Frowned Upon

There's Only Loud Quitting In Law Firms

Infamy And The Billable Hour

The ABA's Bold Stance Against Losers (Of The Civil War)

Have You Considered Not Lying Under Oath?

The Justices Are One Big, Happy Family, Says Justice No One Likes

Supreme Court Leaves Nine Stones Unturned

Maternity Leave Scandal A Reminder That Lawyers Still Don't Understand 'Benefits'

Layoffs & Mergers Highlight A Bumpy Year Ahead

Biglaw Closes Out The Year With Some Shenanigans

2022 Legal Year In Review

Biglaw Firm Seeks Its Pound Of Bar Prep Flesh

Dickensian Law Firms

Sam Alito Successfully Deploys The Shaggy Defense

To Test Or Not To Test

Driving A Stake Through U.S. News

Game Of Owns: The 2022 FedSoc Convention

The Drumbeat Of Layoffs Getting Louder

Ye's New Single Should Be "Biglaw Walks"

Donald Trump Trying To Use The Courts For His Petty Grudges. Again.

Bar Exam Cheating Tale Almost Too Stupid To Believe

Clio Conversations

It's Not A Lie If You Believe It.

Playing Stupid Games

Dueling Speeches Spice Up Supreme Court Offseason

Law School Reform Gets Some Unlikely Support

Telling My Grandkids Judge Aileen Cannon Was Just Andy Kaufman Doing A Bit

Trump Judge's Crim Pro Choose Your Own Adventure

Humanitarian Crises Strike The Legal Profession

Trump's Legal Braintrust May Need To Take Remedial Crim Pro

Punitive Damages Cap In Alex Jones Case Is The Ultimate Jury Nullification

Bar Exam Working To Prove Its Own Irrelevancy

Don't Do What This Lawyer Did

Maybe Elon Musk Shouldn't Have Waived All Those Protections?

Doth Protest Too Much? Not According To The Supreme Court

Hearsay Schmearsay

Supreme Court Isn't Even Trying Anymore

The Supreme Court Has A Little Chatterbox

Law School Rankings Show Which Schools Offer Best Deal

Preparing For The Bar Exam — The Last Test You’ll Ever Take (Rebroadcast)

The Podigal Son Returns: Elie Mystal Talks About The Supreme Court

Once Again The Epicenter Of All Drama

Texas Social Media Law DEMANDS That You Listen To This Episode

Supreme Court Unveils New Doctrine Of 'Stare 5-Voticus'

Guess What Happened After We Recorded This Podcast?

A Wild Week Of Law News

At What Point Are You Just Giving Bad People The Attention They Crave?

The Civic Duty Of Lawyers To Speak Out When The Supreme Court Dupes The Public

Law School Rankings And The Grain Of Salt You Need

Your First Amendment Right To Sit Quietly And Not Say Anything

Biglaw Firms Learning The Hard Way That Some Billables Just Aren't Worth It

A Journey Of (e)Discovery

The Least Interesting Thing About Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Her LSAT Score

The Undebatable Qualifications Of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Let The Salary Cavalcade Commence

Tales From The Shadow Docket

Still Coughing Up Bad Decisions

Supreme Court Vacancy Inspires All Sorts Of Awful

Let's Talk Raises!

Stupid Or Wrong?: The Neil Gorsuch Conundrum

Anti-Vaxxer Law -- The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel

The John Roberts Webinar Of Power

The 2021 Year End Spectacular

Judge Gets Testy... Becomes Former Judge

Incredibly Insecure Biglaw Firms

Biglaw Bonus Barrier Breached Bigly

Bonus Season Stumbles Off The Line

Watering Down The Rule Of Law

Shake (Intellectual Property Considerations) Off

Let's Go Branded

Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Some Geniuses

What Will Yale Do Next Week?

This Is Not A First Amendment Thing, Man

Judges Gone Wild

Supreme Court Preview: It Ain't Gonna Be Pretty

That's Not How Contracts Work

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Lawyers Behaving All Kinds Of Badly

Neither Novel Nor Procedural Nor Questions

That's Not What We Meant By Remote Work

Not A Great Look For Law Professors

How Much Would Biglaw Have To Pay You To Stay?

It's Always The Law Professors You Think It's Going To Be

Cooler Heads Prevail?

When Judges Attack

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Clients Need To Mind Their Own Business About Returning To The Office

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : The Greatest Legal Research Hack

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Supremely Disappointing

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : So, You're Saying Billing To Non-Existent Matters Is Frowned Upon?

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Supreme Court Treats NCAA Like Amateurs

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Associate Pay Jumps To $205K

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : FedSoc Babies Won't Stop Whining

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : No One's Where They Expected To Be

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Summer Vacations? Maybe Not For Lawyers

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Yes, You Still Need To Check Your Zoom Name Before Logging In

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Law School Professor Just Won't Stop Begging To Use Racial Slurs

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Rudy Giuliani Is The Dumbest Lawyer Ever, Right?

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Don't Throw Clients Under The Bus, Unless They're Protesters

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Are Billing Rates Too Darn High?

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : The First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Does The T14 Even Matter? Asking For Some Hoyas.

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : What Does It Mean To Be A Market Leader?

Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer : Springtime For Biglaw Bonuses

Are We Still Citing Judge Kozinski As An Expert?

Who Wins The Jingle War: Cellino Or Barnes?

No, You Can't Do That

Elie Mystal's Back: The Prodigal Podcast Host Returns

Unfiltered Legal Talk! Uncatfiltered Anyway

The Ecstasy And The Agony Of Pandemic Law

Text Is Really Only Part Of Context

Rudy's Dominion Defamation Dollars Debacle

An Impeachment So Nice They Did It Twice

Coup Coup Ka-Choo

Foley & Lardner's Wild Week

Finally, We're Finished With 2020

No Second 'Chances'

I Wonder If The Big City Lawyer Will Choose Love Or Career?!?!?

'Tis The Season For Law School Exam Screw Ups

Ready... Aim... Bonuses!

What Would Be Better Than The Bar Exam?

Jones Day Bets On Donald Trump As Half-Baked Election Challenges Crumble

Welcome To Four Seasons Legal Podcast

Have You Tried Editing Your Opinions, Your Honor?

Toobingate Was Only Last Week

Clio Cloud Conference Provides The Pulse Of The Profession

Biglaw Bonuses Belong In Associate Pockets, Not Partner Coffers

Some Supremely Useful Advice

On The Passing Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Begun The Bonus War Has

An Election So Nice, You Should Vote TWICE! (No, You Shouldn’t)

The Screwball Antics Of The Department Of Justice

Who Really Cares About The Hatch Act?

Becoming A Bar Exam Whiz... Literally

Ain't No Party Like A COVID Party

That Took A Threatening Turn

Firms Slowly Begin To Return To Normal Pay

It's Bar Exam Time!

The Fight For Diploma Privilege

Chief Justice Hits His Head And Remembers Rule Of Law

When Attorneys Attack!

Addressing Law School Racism & Neomi Rao's School Of Legal Writing Don'ts

A Wild Week At The Supreme Court

Explaining Michael Flynn's Case To Non-Lawyers And Other Challenges

As Law Firms Self-Reflect, State Bar Exams Double Down

Guns, Germs, And Section 230 Internet Regulation

Why Business Development Is Every Lawyer's Problem

Wait, Lawyers Talk Smack?

Law Students And Dealing With COVID-19

Bringing Lawyers Together Under Lockdown

Searching The Unknown Reaches Of The State Docket

State Of The Industry After A Month Of Coronavirus

For Clients, It's Important To Pay Bills On Time Too

In Extraordinary Times, Lawyers Need Creative Solutions

Law Schools Struggle With COVID Response

Building A Video Game Practice

Crushing It On Test Prep

Mixed Martial Law

The Psychology of Document Review

Election Law Special With Rick Hasen

What's Up With Alan Dershowitz These Days

Speaking Of Legal Farce

Life On The Other Side Of The V

Non-Equity Means Non-Partner

In Memoriam... To All The Law Firms We Lost Last Decade

The Top Stories of 2019

Impeachapalooza

The Happiest Time Of The Year: Bonus Time!

The One Thing That Might Force Law Schools To Be More Practical

Fighting For The Innocent (Rebroadcast)

The Roberts Court Is Here

Preparing For The Bar Exam -- The Last Test You'll Ever Take

Making The Profession Work For Military Spouses

Birds, Books, And Blogs. Oh My!

Let's Get Wildly Off Topic

Law School Students Need To Figure Out Where They're Going To Work

The Challenges Facing In-House Counsel In 2019

Lawyers On TV

Sure Impeachment Is Serious, But Look At This Lawyer Cat!

The Opioid Suits

Revenge Is A Dish Best Not Served To Guests In Weil's Cafeteria

The Many, Many Obstacles To Biglaw Diversity

When Are Lawyers To Blame For Their Clients?

From the Archives: The Future of the Law Firm (Rebroadcast)

Scintillating Sports Law Takes

Would You Rather? But Legal

What A Week In Legal News

Breaking Down The Mueller Hearings

Academia Means Never Having To Say, 'I Got Fired'

Jeffrey Epstein's Legal Aftermath

All Those Lower Courts You've Been Sleeping On

An Independence Day Lesson In Interviewing

Facing Consequences And Moving On

So Many Mistakes, So Little Time

Making Legal Technology Intuitive

Checking In On The Plaintiffs' Side

Around the Gavel

Pardon The Injunction

Law School Decision 2019 (Part II)

Law School Decision 2019 (Part I)

Biglaw Continues To Struggle With Gender Equity

The Odd Couple

Giving It The Old College Scam Try

Bonus Podcast: Prosecution v. Defense and the Realities of ‘Proven Innocent’

Law School Rankings Recap

Bonus Podcast: Exploring The Tragedy Of Wrongful Convictions At The Heart Of FOX's 'Proven Innocent.'

Democracy Is Troublingly Fragile

Bonus Podcast: Proven Innocent

The Michael Avenatti Interview

The Future Is Now

They Don't Get PR Flacks

The Best (Lawyer) A Man Can Get -- Not Rudy

On Emojis And Shutdowns

Happy New Year! Everything's Awful

Should Christmas Eve Be A Firm Holiday?

The Future Of The Law Firm

Getting Inside A Judge's Head

Thanksgiving Break

It's Finals Week for Law Students!

A Wild Week In Law School News

The Rise Of The Freelance Lawyer

New Law School Rankings, The Plight Of The Managing Partner, And In-House Work In The #MeToo Era

Law School Campuses In The Wake Of Kavanaugh

Fighting For The Innocent

Getting Paid As A Lawyer Really Shouldn't Be So Hard

The Kavanaugh Hearings Were Something Else, Weren't They

The Changing Legal Office

Transparency In The Courts

The Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings

Step Inside The Octagon -- Law And MMA

Just How Smart Are You?

A Banner Week For Legal Gossip

Mastering On-Campus Interviewing

Ohio State Football... A Quick Primer On Internal Investigations

Above the Law Goes To The Movies

The Danger Of For-Profit Law Schools

How The Media Miffed Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination

I’m Off A Boat

Anthony Kennedy Retires — What’s Next

The Dumbest Law School Exam Question Ever

The 2018 Top 50 Law Schools

Baby Making Music

Emergency Podcast: Milbank Raises Salaries

Prenuptials, Post-nuptials, And No Judgements

How To Decide On A Law School: We Answer Even More Questions

Where Should You Go To Law School?

The Harrowing World Of Cybersecurity

ATL Set To Unveil New Ranking -- What In-House Counsel Really Think About Law Firms

Debt and Destruction

Cryptocurrency At The Crossroads

The Second Annual Thinking Like A Lawyer Awards Gala

From Biglaw To Producing Hit Shows -- A Discussion with Jonathan Shapiro

2018 Legal Technology Predictions

Is It Okay To Talk About Women In Law Now?

How To Explain The World To Non-Lawyers

Finding Your Career Starts Now, 1L

Turning Your Law Degree Into Writing About College Football

Election Law Takes Center Stage

How Hulk Hogan Ruined America

Supreme Court Wrap-Up

Supreme Court Betting On New Jersey

Harvard's Accepting The GRE -- How Much Should You Freak Out?

2017 Law School Rankings

Bar Exam Woes

The Police Have An Image Problem... And This Isn't Helping

Let Us Tell You Where You Should Go To Law School

Why Did You Go There?

When Your Accounting Firm Messes Up

Freedom Of The Press In Trump’s America (Rebroadcast)

Biglaw Steps Up for Child Coming To America

Everything You Wanted To Know About That Drone Spying Outside Your Bedroom Window (Rebroadcast)

The Fashion Police

Awards For The Lawyer In Your Life

Bonuses And Bowls

Freedom Of The Press In Trump's America

Private Practice Tools and Tech Roundup

What's Up With The Philadelphia Market?

Supreme Court Preview: Waiting For Garland

Is LegalZoom Ruining The Legal Profession Or Enhancing It?

Access and Name Dropping

Pokémon's Evolving Legal Landscape

Law Firm Salary Extravaganza

Summertime In Law Firms

Unveiling The 2016 Top 50 Law Schools

Making A Murderer's Dean Strang On Criminal Justice

The Hulk Hogan Leg Drop On The First Amendment

The Future and Past of the Supreme Court

Everything You Wanted To Know About That Drone Spying Outside Your Bedroom Window

Election Law Pitfalls Of Presidential Primaries

Slave Wars

A World Without Affirmative Action

Here Comes The Bride... And The Lawyers

The Customer Is Always A Sucker: Law School Economics

Why Lawyers Are Good At Sex

How To Debate For Your Job

Supreme Court Preview: Revenge of the Roberts!

SportsBall

Kit-Kats, X-Files, And Starting Your Own Firm

Is The Office Thermostat Sexist?

Legal Feud

One Robe, One Vote

Free-Range Parenting

Law And The Marvel Universe

2015 Law School Rankings Revealed!

The Network: How Does The Law End Up On Television?

Up, Up, Down, Down, Sue, Sue: The Law of Video Games

Daddy Needs A New Pair Of Shoes!

Introduction To Mayhem