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The story of Weil Gotshal’s demise is the story of the unraveling of the relationship between its two most powerful partners. news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
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Breaking: Weil Gotshal & Manges plans to wind down its operations, its leaders told partners on Wednesday, according to a source briefed on the decision. news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
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News: Trump’s top Congressional liaison for DOJ exiting before midterms where Dem flip could lead to onslaught of legal headaches w/ @benjaminpenn
Scoop with @MicaSoellnerDC: DOJ's chief congressional liaison, Patrick Davis, to resign at end of Oct., just as his job would transform post-midterms if Dems take gavel news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
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News: The rise of Trump admin's DOJ fraud division has decimated a once elite white collar unit known for convicting market manipulating traders at big banks. Criminal Division is now trying to stop the exodus with unheard of retention bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
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NEW: AG Todd Blanche’s attempt to show DOJ attorneys he has their backs got off to a bumpy start in closed-door Atlanta meeting. Prosecutors confronted him with tough questions on staff firings & low morale. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
New: DLA Piper called for Trump’s removal after Jan. 6. Now the firm’s lawyers are defending the president in a lawsuit by police officers injured in the attack. @BLaw
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Is AI going to replace Big Law associates? Here's how one private equity client puts it: "You could be a super genius lawyer out of Harvard. You’re not going to compete with a GPU.”
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NY Pied-A-Terre Tax Challenger Says He Doesn’t Want Trump’s Help news.bloomberglaw.com/new-yo…
Last year, the Energy Dept laid off scores of employees as part of DOGE cuts. Now, it's set to spend $50m on law firms to do work previously performed by staff attorneys.
Some large firms with long energy client lists have already won contracts. @BLaw
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Check your @Uber app: The company is now forcing riders and drivers to disclose outside litigation funding.
@EmilyRSiegel has more on the rideshare giant's new effort to cut down on lawsuits for @BLaw.
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New: The U.S. hired Sullivan & Cromwell, whose lawyers represent Pres. Trump personally in court, to work on a deal with Pakistan to redevelop the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. @ryantarinelli has the scoop for @BLaw.
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JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
Remember when the Trumps fired lawyer Bill Burck over his work for Harvard? One year later, he's back in the fold. news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
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Top appellate lawyer Kannon Shanmugam has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell to launch a Supreme Court practice for the second time in less than a decade, building on the firm’s strong and steadily created base in Washington.
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Prominent appellate lawyer Kannon Shanmugam is leaving Paul Weiss for Davis Polk & Wardwell.
Shanmugam and Paul Weiss partner Masha Hansford will launch Davis Polk’s new Supreme Court and appellate practice, the firm said Thursday.
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Why is everything a fucking podcast? If you're not Jon Stewart I'd rather read your words—you are a writer, yeah?—than look at you talk at me through a Zoom box. So weird that one of the biggest annoyances of the pandemic—Zoom meetings!—is now the prevailing form of media nytimes.com/2026/03/27/podca…
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From @TheAthletic: For 40 years, Duke has been college basketball’s most polarizing team. People love to hate Duke.
But has Duke basketball become less hateable? Perhaps, maybe, even likable? nyti.ms/3Q5B9gM
ALT Duke Blue Devils fans cheer with their hands up in the stands during a basketball game. Text reads: Is Hating Duke Falling Out of Style?
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NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
NEW: Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp helped Epstein protect his plea deal on sex trafficking charges against legal attacks in the months before the disgraced financier died in jail, recently released emails show.
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Karp's "small number of social interactions by email" with Epstein include advising him on a letter to NYT editors defending Epstein's controversial plead deal.
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NEW: Brad Karp, chairman of the giant law firm Paul Weiss, said on Monday that he regretted his social interactions with Jeffery Epstein, after a series of emails revealed that the prominent lawyer had socialized with the disgraced financier and, at one point, asked him for help landing his son a job on a Woody Allen movie. W/@MattGoldstein26 nytimes.com/2026/02/02/busin…
