Alito imposed an "administrative stay" on the lower court's decision and ordered a group of plaintiffs to respond to Texas' appeal to the Supreme Court by 5 p.m. Monday. https://loom.ly/0Vxw-t0

Because AI has the potential to improve how legal departments handle everything from contract reviews and risk mapping to outside counsel billing and employee training, panelists said AI isn’t optional anymore—and ignoring it is the quickest route to irrelevance. https://loom.ly/KfOIfAc

“One of the silver linings to the cloud that we're in in this administration is that they're not bashful, and they're not hiding what they're doing,” said Abbe Lowell. https://loom.ly/NFt2TKU

Law firm leasing totaled 2.4 million square feet during Q3—the third highest quarterly volume since 2018—bringing the total for the first three quarters of 2025 to 8.3 msf. https://loom.ly/G2g2zho

Unlockd Media filed a motion seeking recusal, arguing that Gilliam has maintained an ongoing, close friendship with Cassandra Knight, Google's vice president for litigation and discovery, without ever informing the parties involved in the case. https://loom.ly/sKYJ5MM

While the FDA has not yet issued guidance filling in the details of the proposal, health care lawyers have hailed it as a major, welcome shift. https://loom.ly/h1RyXgY

Second Amendment scholar Haley Proctor of Notre Dame Law School joins Jimmy Hoover to break down the major gun cases to be decided during the 2025-2026 term. on this week's Supreme Court Brief podcast. https://loom.ly/IIrgZ_U

U.S. District Judge Jia M. Cobb temporarily paused her order from taking immediate effect, imposing a 21-day administrative stay until Dec. 11 to “prevent potential disruption to the functioning of the District and the National Guard during the appeals process.” https://loom.ly/gKuSqyw

The House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 2675, also known as the Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act, which is aimed at protecting American courts from potential threats by foreign entities participating in civil litigation as third-party funders. https://loom.ly/x9o0dYQ

“The Defendants’ discrimination against Maltinsky for engaging in protected speech was a clear and brazen violation of federal law and the Constitution,” counsel for Maltinsky wrote in the complaint. https://loom.ly/XcjqTEY

Carr said Thursday that local broadcasters should be able to preempt programming to meet their public interest obligations. It has been more that 15 years since the commission examined the dynamic between networks and local affiliates, he added. https://loom.ly/3R9LlKo

“In 37 years as a federal judge, I’ve served on hundreds of three-judge panels. This is the most blatant exercise of judicial activism that I have ever witnessed,” Judge Jerry E. Smith wrote in the dissent filled with barbs against Judge Jeffrey Brown. https://loom.ly/LiCVOX0

The dismissal of antitrust claims against Meta Platforms in an FTC action will make it more difficult for plaintiffs to show injuries in the personal social networking market, according to business litigation experts. https://loom.ly/KTXTx_E

Washington, D.C.-based litigation boutique Wilkinson Stekloff announced it will give 150% above-market year-end bonuses for each associate class year, starting at $22,500 for the class of 2025 and topping out at $175,500 for the class of 2017. https://loom.ly/68VI_es

Ira Coleman sits down with Legal Speak's Patrick Smith to offer some clarification and discuss what is really happening, where the firm is on its path, and the philosophical and strategic reasons for exploring outside investment. https://loom.ly/-DGEKBU

"This is a really complicated issue," Michael Selig told the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. "It's an interpretive question that's working its way through the courts. So, I will respect the decisions of those courts." https://loom.ly/Q72LGe0

"Somebody built an algorithm that had no basis, in fact, in risk assessment, in science," said attorney Mikal Watts. "It just said, if you're on the west side of Lake Avenue, you don't get a warning. And if you're on the east side, maybe you're entitled to one." https://loom.ly/BPYugFc

After Cravath said Tuesday that it will give out year-end bonuses and special bonuses that match Milbank’s scale, other firms said they would as well. Later Tuesday evening, both Paul Hastings and Cadwalader announced they would match Cravath’s bonus structure. https://loom.ly/-kLCO-M

Pillsbury partner Anne Voight argued the more than $3.6 million became the firm’s property when the client, Adam Rogas, retained Pillsbury and transferred the funds just days before he was charged with securities fraud. https://loom.ly/k8jz2sY

“The video, as I understand, was specifically talking about the worst of the worst initiative. And so, having murderers and those that sexually prey on children off the street is a good thing,” said Nicholas Ganjei in response to a question from Sen. Mazie Hirono. https://loom.ly/xV5rr6c

"It has fallen to former judges more than ever to speak on behalf of the judiciary," said former U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin. https://loom.ly/xVZZQ6Y

Prosecutors sought in their sentencing memorandum three years of federal probation and more than $2.2 million in restitution. They noted Abramoff was sentenced for his previous high-profile charges "no less than 17 years ago." https://loom.ly/2merc9I

Halligan faces intense questions concerning her interactions with federal grand juries after the judge ruled Comey’s defense counsel must receive full access to all grand jury materials in the United States v. Comey perjury case. https://loom.ly/MOm_Ueo

“There certainly are allegations of injurious falsehood that I don't believe even the defendants claimed were beyond the statute of limitations,” said Trump attorney Richard Klugh. https://loom.ly/GN62RyA

The hires are generally within firms’ C-Suite and their white-collar, corporate, regulatory and energy practices. https://loom.ly/rMPGa3M

Ouraring Inc., which is based in San Francisco and is a subsidiary of Finnish company Oura Health Oy, notes the complaints to protect its patents come as it expands its manufacturing operations into Texas based on its business relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense. https://loom.ly/hhyT8mU

"The Court ultimately concludes that the agency has not carried its burden: Meta holds no monopoly in the relevant market," Judge Boasberg wrote in his 89-page memorandum opinion filed Tuesday. https://loom.ly/K5zin9U

The two firms have billed the combination as a "merger of equals" in press releases and even a leader-led video, which has become the marketing tool of choice post-A&O Shearman. From a metrics standpoint, the merger makes sense. https://loom.ly/iP8SJv8

"I still loved the job, but it felt a little bit more like it had become my daily routine and less exciting and fresh and so I was looking to do something different," Matthew Guarnieri told the National Law Journal Monday. https://loom.ly/dlYBaqg

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, argues that the No Secret Police Act and the No Vigilantes Act violate the Constitution's supremacy clause. https://loom.ly/N8PGqJ4

CMS issued a final rule in 2023 amending how the agency calculates “disproportionate share hospital” or DSH payments to hospitals regarding outstanding reimbursement requests for years before 2014. https://loom.ly/SlpTgWM

Revenue growth for the Am Law 200 was up 11.7%, according to a Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group report, primarily because of standard billing rate growth, 9.5%, which hit another high-water mark at the nine-month cut-off. https://loom.ly/AbyhIro

The 10 judges who penned the most reported majority opinions, dissents and concurrences were all Trump appointees, according to the study by University of Virginia Law School professor Mitu Gulati and New York University School of Law professor Stephen Choi. https://loom.ly/91S3Efw

The case deals with an old DHS policy known as "metering," where the agency would turn away new asylum applicants at overloaded Customs and Border Patrol port of entry facilities before they entered the United States. https://loom.ly/TvDMpsw

A combination of the two firms would create a major international institution with revenues of $2.58 billion, about 3,000 lawyers and about 700 partners across 52 offices in 23 countries—placing it 21st on the Global 200 ranking. https://loom.ly/EkKJ97I

Sara McLean joined Akin on Monday as a partner in Washington, D.C., in the regulatory and health care and life sciences practices. https://loom.ly/DWIigFE

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has hired SEC veteran attorney Natasha Vij Greiner to chair the firm’s investment management practice, the firm said Monday. https://loom.ly/IvUL5YY

Work at the SEC may be especially slow to recover with more than 90% of employees furloughed during the 43-day lapse in appropriations. https://loom.ly/429Ydrw

“Our position is these plaintiffs [the researchers] cannot bring these APA claims anywhere," Yaakov Roth said, referring to the federal Administrative Procedure Act. https://loom.ly/3D2fzY4

Earlier on Friday, Trump called on Bondi in a Truth Social post to investigate Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, JPMorgan Chase bank, and other “people and institutions.” https://loom.ly/0M6Z6jE

Depending on their specialties, some employment attorneys could be busier than others after federal workplace regulatory agencies resumed normal schedules this week, veteran labor lawyers say. https://loom.ly/xN2N6wQ

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave concluded that the investors failed to plausibly link KuCoin’s allegedly lax anti-money-laundering controls to the theft of their crypto or to their claimed inability to trace or recover it. https://loom.ly/pL_huHg

Jenner & Block’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against the government of Sierra Leone is winding down in U.S. federal court after the parties agreed to settle claims alleging the West African nation failed to pay Jenner $8 million in outstanding attorney-client legal fees. https://loom.ly/t3_BEkc

General counsel are feeling pressure to adopt generative artificial intelligence tools, but they shouldn't get so swept up in AI mania that they set aside caution and skepticism. https://loom.ly/meP1uWY

Among the firms growing in Minneapolis this year are Cozen O’Connor, which just announced a merger with Minnesota-based Moss & Barnett, as well as Jones Walker, Carlton Fields and Thompson Hine. https://loom.ly/B55HPXI

The case is the first “bellwether” trial from among the talcum powder lawsuits coordinated under California’s Judicial Council Coordinated Proceedings against Johnson & Johnson and could be a harbinger for similar trials anticipated to take place in 2026 in other states. https://loom.ly/RpzSfPQ

The Sierra Leone government hired Jenner & Block in December 2019 to help the country settle a contractual dispute involving iron ore mining operations, but their attorney-client relationship soured over a fee dispute. https://loom.ly/t3_BEkc

Law professor Carolyn Shapiro joins Jimmy Hoover to discuss how the Supreme Court’s under-the-radar shift in emergency docket cases is leading to a string of victories for the Trump administration. https://loom.ly/vqZsYiw

The practice, which combines nearly 30 policy advisers and international trade, tax and other regulatory lawyers from within the firm, aims to help clients understand and react to the shifting global trade policies. https://loom.ly/O6WoiZc

The settlement also calls for the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, part of Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, to issue a public statement acknowledging that the resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza was "inappropriate." https://loom.ly/IiJAts0