Archive - Original Jurisdiction

Clerking For Judge Cannon: A Behind-The-Scenes Look

A tale of two clerkships: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Mar 22, 2024 • David Lat

Brad Karp’s Email To Paul Weiss About Its Deal With The Trump Administration

Here’s what Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp sent to his colleagues on Sunday afternoon.

Mar 23, 2025 • David Lat

Law Clerks Quit On Judge Aileen Cannon

Her slowness in the Trump documents case could be due to personnel problems in chambers.

Mar 21, 2024 • David Lat

A Top SCOTUS Litigator’s Major Lateral Move

Neal Katyal gave me the inside scoop on his move to Milbank from Hogan Lovells.

Feb 14, 2025 • David Lat

Yale Law Is No Longer #1—For Free-Speech Debacles

Congratulations, Stanford Law, you're now in the limelight.

Mar 11, 2023 • David Lat

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.

Jan 30, 2025 • David Lat

Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Meet The October Term 2022 SCOTUS Clerks

Folks seeking greater diversity in the ranks of Supreme Court clerks won't love this clerk class.

Jul 20, 2022 • David Lat

An AI Fail By An Elite Litigation Firm

With a Vault 100 and Am Law 200 law firm at its center, this might be Biglaw’s biggest artificial-intelligence mishap to date.

Sep 23, 2025 • David Lat

A Major Law Firm’s ChatGPT Fail

Why is not citing fake cases so hard?

Feb 7, 2025 • David Lat

Celebrated SCOTUS Advocate Tom Goldstein Hit With 22-Count Federal Indictment

A lengthy indictment accuses the once high-flying Supreme Court lawyer of massive tax evasion—tied to multimillion-dollar poker losses and multiple…

Jan 17, 2025 • David Lat

Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Up-And-Coming Feeder Judges

Plus Justice Jackson's interesting new hiring process, and clerks with unusual backgrounds (and more familial connections).

Dec 16, 2022 • David Lat

5 Takeaways From Brad Karp’s Emails With Jeffrey Epstein

Karp began dealing with Epstein to serve a key client. But at some point, things went off the rails—badly.

Feb 13 • David Lat

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