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Weil Isn’t Even Pretending To Be Sad About Losing Its Most Powerful Partner — See Also

Weil Insiders To Mike Aiello: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!

AI Is Now Making Up Witness Testimony: It’s not just fake cites anymore, but fake humans, too! Watch your filings, lest you face a benchslap like this lawyer.

A Federal Judge Just Hit Pause On Trump’s Federal Hiring Loyalty Question: Turns out you can’t make career applicants write an essay praising the president’s executive orders.

Trump’s DOJ Lawyers Try To Save His Personal Lawyers: One of these things is not like the other… sort of.

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* Looks imminent? Anyone want odds? [Law360]

* Deep dive into how the federalist society got us here. [The Atlantic]

* How Legora aims to take on legal industry giants. [Business Insider]

* ACC going after another in house counsel group accusing them of training on proprietary data. [ABA Journal]

* Hallucination from a judge. [Reuters Legal]

* The lawyer behind Young Thug’s YSL trial and his passion for criminal defense work. [Complex]

* Must be Yale fans. [Huffington Post]

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Missouri Keeps Beating Dead Horse Of A Map — See Generally

If At First The Supreme Court Tells You To Stop: Missouri Republicans keep unsuccessfully sending its gerrymander to the Supreme Court.

Try, Try Again: And the Supreme Court keeps telling them to pound sand.

Fifty-One Shades Of ‘Rigged’: DOJ and Education Department say Berkeley Law illegally favors Black students… where 51 of 1,128 students are Black.

Scale Model: Weil announced the loss of its corporate chair and a half-dozen M&A partners to Cravath by explaining that they had left for “a smaller platform.”

Deep In The Heart Of Private Equity: Kirkland & Ellis passed Jackson Walker to become the largest firm in Texas at 549 lawyers, twelve years after it first opened an office there.

Baby Steps To $455K: Liu Shur Kravis, a D.C. litigation boutique founded in April by three former federal prosecutors, matched the Milbank scale five months into its existence.

1 & Done & Done: Elon Law Dean Zak Kramer promised his students a tattoo if the class hit an 85% first-time bar passage rate, and got “1 & Done” inked on his forearm after they posted 91.96%.

Detector Gadget: Law professors have Pangram mania as they clutch their pearls over the possibility that fellow scholars might use AI to draft law review articles. Here’s a novel proposal: just read the submissions and see if they’re any good.

Life, Uh, Finds A Way To Sue: Minor Character Theater’s long-suffering Wonka general counsel is back, and he’s handling compliance for John Hammond.

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That’s Some Epic Biglaw Shade — See Also

The One Thing Nobody Has Ever Called Cravath… ‘A Smaller Platform’: Until Weil, which just lost its corporate chair to the firm, gave it a shot.

Hear Me Out: Should we really care that a federal court opinion reads like Gen Z slang?

We Sure Could Use More Human Rights Lawyers These Days: So now is a great time to discuss the top schools for human rights law.

Say Bye-Bye To Another Trump Ally: Joe diGenova just resigned and stomped off in a huff.

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