One of Elon Musk's lawyers in his clash-of-the-titans lawsuit against Sam Altman is also literally a clown. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-la...

If I was Tom Goldstein I would have simply quit playing poker while I was on top

NEW: As Steve Bannon filmed 15 hours of interviews with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the two texted about using an obscure legal maneuver. The maneuver could explain why the footage hasn't seen the light of day. 🔗 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

Oh man, sucks for this guy that he's only a former Honduras Congressman and not a former Honduras President

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate says over 250 emails between top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler and the now-dead pedophile are protected by attorney-client privilege www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: Harry Beller isn't one of the boldfaced names who can be found all over Jeffrey Epstein's social calendar and emails. But for years, the obscure accountant was entrusted with some of the most delicate parts of Epstein's financial life. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: Mark Epstein says that the "Bubba" he joked about with his brother Jeffrey Epstein "is not, in any way, a reference to former President Bill Clinton."

Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer and onetime Attorney General candidate and potential SCOTUS nominee, now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: Kathryn Ruemmler, the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, maintained a closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than previously known, emails show. Ruemmler asked Epstein for career advice when she was tapped to be US Attorney General in Obama admin. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

There are a ton of emails from Jeffrey Epstein's private jet pilot telling him that Donald Trump is screwing up his travel plans because Air Force One is flying out of Palm Beach and no other planes can get in the air

Here's a meme Jeffrey Epstein's brother emailed to him

NEW: Trump's SullCrom lawyers scored a win at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. They ordered a district court judge to reconsider whether appeals of Trump's criminal conviction should play out in federal — not state — courts.

NEW: John Mulaney attended today's SCOTUS argument while developing a TV show with Neal Katyal, who argued Trump's tariffs are illegal. Mulaney is a huge Constitutional law nerd, their mutual friend Akhil Reed Amar told me: www.businessinsider.com/john-mulaney...

@jayshams.bsky.social is one of the best legal writers in the biz. Lately, he's focused on the intersection of law and business, here walking up to this week's Scotus hearing on Trump's tariffs.

Devastating. That well-dressed guy photographed after the Louvre heist may not be a French detective after all. apnews.com/article/louv...

Via @jayshams.bsky.social, Michael Wolff is suing Melania for SLAPP and demanding subpoenas, including of Trump. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

I accidentally got my toddler into Edward Gorey books and now his favorite animals are things like the Ampoo and the Ombledroom

If you ever feel like you've accomplished a lot in your life, just remember that a teenage girl invented France

Robert Jackson — the former Supreme Court justice, Solicitor General, and Nazi war crimes prosecutor — gave a speech in 1940 titled "The Federal Prosecutor" that is considered a must-read for people who join the DOJ. This passage has been circulating a lot lately:

The new Dan Brown book has a brief cameo from @NormEisen, the attorney and former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Business Insider has a nifty new feature that'll update you whenever I publish a new story. Try it here: www.businessinsider.com/author/jacob...

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News. Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios. www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

In legal arguments, Lisa Cook's lawyers have leaned on the 9-0 Supreme Court decision called Humphrey's Executor to argue for Fed independence. But while it technically remains the law of the land, the Supreme Court has signaled it'll soon be dead. www.businessinsider.com/supreme-cour...

I don’t litigate so I don’t know whether this is the case, but I would think that if you did this in discovery you would have a very rough time with the judge

So the House Oversight Committee just released 33,295 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Nearly all of it was already public. The committee hasn't said what's new. If I wanted to obscure new info about Epstein from the public while pretending to be transparent, this is exactly what I'd do.

the latest season of sesame street features elmo as a degen gambler who gradually comes to realize he's destroying the lives of the people who love him

I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo

I don't understand how this is legal but I'm excited to try my new shampoo

I joined @lauracoates.com's CNN show with the great Sarah Krissoff and @willsommer.bsky.social to talk about what's happening with the Trump administration and the Epstein files It's an important case, and I hope we will all get to see these files soon. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

NEW: I spoke to four people who've seen the Epstein files. They say there are no signs in there that Jeffrey Epstein worked for intelligence. Nothing the US government wanted to be classified. No interest from intelligence agencies. Nada. www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land.

Rudy Giuliani's legal problems are far from over. Accuser Noelle Dunphy is keeping up her sexual assault lawsuit, despite Giuliani's motion to dismiss.

Gavin Newsom is suing Fox News for $787 million, alleging it failed to learn the lessons of the lawsuit from Dominion, to which it paid $787.5 million 2 years ago. www.businessinsider.com/gavin-newsom...

likely place for him to be

The former CEO of Barclays bank lied when he told financial regulators he had only a "purely professional" relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a British court ruled. businessinsider.com/jes-staley-b...

I don't think I've seen this reported elsewhere — Sullivan & Cromwell's Robert Giuffra and Matthew Schwartz attended the E. Jean Carroll appeal hearing yesterday, as did Boris Epshteyn. Giuffra and Schwartz represent Trump in his New York criminal and civil fraud appeals.

every once in a while my spotify shuffle ends up on that one obscure banger from an artist i met at a downtown art show who posts disturbing thoughts on instagram about how lizard people are out to get her

The Law & Crime network is making an AI-generated recreation of Diddy trial testimony using the official court transcript.

The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is haunting the Trump administration www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epst...

A message Diddy sent from his Blackberry in 2012

www.businessinsider.com/diddy-trial-... What do Mike Meyers, Harry Potter, and #Andor have in common? All had cameos in the three days of jury selection for the #USvCombs trial. Also weed and Altoids. Read about the strangeness — @businessinsider.com — @jayshams.bsky.social

I can think of the perfect Catholic centrist elderly man who can bring a major institution through a transition period. And he currently has plenty of time on his hands.

www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump... Excellent story today by Jack Newsham and Jacob Shamsian — showing these Big Law EOs have had the opposite impact Trump intended. @businessinsider.com @jayshams.bsky.social

www.businessinsider.com/luigi-girls-... @unitedhealthcare.sa.com Brian Thompson’s name never comes up, folks in this macabre line tell @businessinsider.com. “It’s all talk about Luigi.” @jayshams.bsky.social

New with @jayshams.bsky.social: What smart people are saying about Meta's argument that it's not a social media monopoly (scroll to the end for a surprise).

I think this got memory-holed, but Chris Krebs sued the Trump 2020 presidential campaign after one of its lawyers, Joseph diGenova, went on Newsmax and said Krebs should be "taken out at dawn and shot" for contradicting Trump.

It's a great day to look at your stock portfolio

Trump's executive orders and deals with law firms aren't just about getting Big Law to bend the knee. They're about cutting off firepower from legal challenges to his political priorities. www.businessinsider.com/trump-big-la...

there should be an app that lets you get 30 minutes at a bar mitzvah smorgasbord whenever you want. like what if it's a monday night and i'm craving a pastrami carving station.