A midday park-bench makeout session between a Biglaw partner and associate went viral, raising immediate questions about billing codes and workplace conduct policies.
MV Realty has sued Holland & Knight, claiming the firm blessed a unique financial product into which the company sank $156 million, with 16 state attorneys general subsequently coming calling in a case now valued at $1.2 billion.
John Yoo, known for authoring the so-called Torture Memo, appeared on Fox News suggesting the Trump DOJ investigate Zohran Mamdani for asking New York City lawyers to evaluate the city’s obligations in light of the ICC arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yoo’s suggestion drew swift criticism from legal observers who noted the conduct he described does not appear to constitute any recognised criminal offence under existing law.
Judge Lawrence VanDyke used a dissent from denial of rehearing en banc to ask the Supreme Court to start berating his colleagues, doing little to shake his reputation for overreach.
VanDyke’s dissent was widely seen as an unusual and self-defeating move, with critics noting he is never, ever beating the “he wasn’t qualified for this job” rap.
The Department of Justice walked into Judge Arun Subramanian’s courtroom carrying grand jury subpoenas for five New York Times reporters, then accepted the judge’s offer to withdraw the subpoenas rather than have them quashed.
The DOJ subsequently issued a statement accusing Judge Subramanian of overriding “common sense,” a remarkable public attack on a sitting federal judge following what amounted to a tactical retreat.
Todd Blanche, ordered by Judge Emmet Sullivan to unredact Epstein Act documents by 2 July, produced no documents and instead filed a response containing a single Privacy Act argument surrounded by many pages of random grievances.
In written questions about whether he stood by admitting a slush fund was a mistake, Blanche answered “I contest the accuracy of this statement,” before calling Senators Durbin and Blumenthal liars.
On a lighter note, Matt Damon told CBS Mornings he remains stuck on the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice would say “I know that guy” about him, after Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recounted their undergraduate acting scene.
U.S. News ranked law schools whose 2024-2025 graduates post the highest private-sector salary-to-debt ratios, with BYU leading at 3.41-to-1, Utah at 1.98, and Temple at 1.91, though the figures drop sharply beyond the top three schools.