Bad News Out Of Biglaw – See Generally
Opening the Gates (To Push People Out): K&L Gates cut roughly 10 percent of its business services staff — accounting, marketing and IT, some with more than a decade at the firm. US Attorney’s Fifty-Four Minutes of Fame: Roger Rogoff was sworn in as US Attorney and fired from the administration fifty-four minutes later, acquitted of the same first-aid shell game that renders indictments worthless. Crystal-Balling The Next Rankings Circus: Pepperdine’s Paul Caron crunched the ABA numbers to project the 2027 US News law school rankings, and the suspense is whether Yale — knocked out of the top spot for the first time this year — can reverse course. Unitary Executive Theory Steps: After successfully getting the Supreme Court to bless the idea that Donald Trump controls everything the government does — except the Fed — a federal judge cited that right to him for his attempt to sue the federal government to give himself and his cronies a slush fund. Always stay busy: The Justice Department has told all 93 US Attorneys’ offices that each line prosecutor must keep at least 25 cases open at all times. No honor among capitulators: The DOJ hit the nine Biglaw firms that bought their way out of Trump’s executive orders with subpoenas and deposition notices, demanding their communications with Boris Epstein and dragging out the heads of the firms that signed the $940 million deals to avoid it in the first place. Welcome to the Gaslight District: Legal researchers reviewing Kathryn Ruemmler’s closed-door House Surveillance testimony about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein called it “classic gaslighting.” Speaking of Gaslighting: Amy Coney Barrett, who once told the public to “read the opinion” before ruling on the Court, informed Congress that it was inappropriate to expect justices to actually explain their shadow opinions. Ban me while the entire panel bails: The lawsuit to block Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming Kentucky Law dean over faculty objections was raised after each judge admitted a conflict in a case against their colleague.
