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A Leading SCOTUS Litigator’s Major Lateral Move
Neal Katyal gave me the inside scoop on his move to Milbank from Hogan Lovells.
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David Lat
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S.D.N.Y. U.S. Attorney Resigns Over The Eric Adams Case
Now-former Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove duked it out in dueling letters.
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Even Superstar Supreme Court Litigators Can’t Win Them All
Plus SCOTUS advocates with the highest win rates, and other interesting info from a new paper.
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David Lat
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Judicial Notice (02.09.25): Everything Enjoined Everywhere, All At Once
Latham raids Wachtell and Simpson, Tom Goldstein fights the feds, a ‘Trump judge’ rules against Trump, and Pam Bondi gets down to business.
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A Major Law Firm’s ChatGPT Fail
Why is not citing fake cases so hard?
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David Lat
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Congratulations To The 2025 Skadden Fellows
Many of these young lawyers will be unusually busy during their fellowships.
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David Lat
Big-City Mayors In The New Trump Era: Quinton Lucas
Listen now (47 mins) | As the mayor of Kansas City, ‘Mayor Q’ must pick his battles with federal and state governments—and sometimes collaborate with…
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David Lat
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Judicial Notice (02.02.25): You’re (All) Fired
The latest Trumpworld legal drama, Kellogg Hansen’s $630 million settlement, Doug Emhoff and Adeel Mangi’s new firms, and a big Fifth Circuit gun…
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David Lat
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January 2025

3 Lawyers Who Lost Their Lives In The D.C. Plane Crash
Wilkinson Stekloff associates Sarah Lee Best and Elizabeth Keys were heading home after a deposition—and the day was also Keys’s 33rd birthday.
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David Lat
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Possible Trump Picks For 4 Open Circuit Seats
It’s unlikely that he’ll be able to reshape the judiciary as much as he did during his first term, but Trump still has an opportunity to shift the…
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David Lat
Judicial Notice (01.26.25): #Resist?
Justice Jackson’s jewelry, Justice Alito’s surprising vote, Kirkland’s raid on Skadden, Gibson Dunn’s latest wins—and more Trump news than you can shake…
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5 Trump Moves That Matter For Lawyers
In his first week in office, President Trump has issued executive orders and taken other actions with significant implications for the legal community.
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