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.| davidlat.substack.com
Plus SCOTUS advocates with the highest win rates, and other interesting info from a new paper.| davidlat.substack.com
Co-founder of Seeger Weiss, Chris Seeger pulls back the curtain on mass-tort and multidistrict litigation—and stresses the importance of an independent judiciary.| davidlat.substack.com
A judge’s YouTube dissent, Paul Weiss’s deal with Donald Trump, Kirkland’s latest financials, and a notable new appellate boutique.| davidlat.substack.com
Please take my poll on this very divisive issue among SCOTUS nerds.| davidlat.substack.com
And of the three, Justice Jackson is emerging as the most full-throated progressive, in the mold of Justices Brennan and Douglas.| davidlat.substack.com
Readers, what are your thoughts on the Supreme Court Term just ended?| davidlat.substack.com
Litigators leaving Biglaw to launch boutiques predated Trump, of course—and the trend will continue long after he’s gone.| davidlat.substack.com
Some billion-dollar firms have feet of clay—which the executive orders were perfectly designed to smash.| davidlat.substack.com
Here’s what Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp sent to his colleagues on Sunday afternoon.| davidlat.substack.com
Trump will rescind his executive order targeting the firm, in exchange for various concessions agreed to by chair Brad Karp.| davidlat.substack.com
That’s what one federal judge said about the executive order targeting Perkins Coie—and I agree with her wholeheartedly.| davidlat.substack.com
Why is not citing fake cases so hard?| davidlat.substack.com
In his first week in office, President Trump has issued executive orders and taken other actions with significant implications for the legal community.| davidlat.substack.com
Alec Baldwin’s ‘dream team,’ shocking allegations against a (former) federal judge, a juicy suit over law faculty hiring, and Paul Hastings’s latest big-name hire.| davidlat.substack.com
Harvard, UVA, and Georgetown were the most noteworthy gainers in the T14.| davidlat.substack.com
Judge Aileen Cannon’s shrewd move, a conservative hire at Yale Law, Winston's interesting new offering, and other legal news from the week that was.| davidlat.substack.com
Listen now (46 minutes) | A longtime advocate for SCOTUS reform analyzes—and offers numerical scores for—the justices' recent ethics controversies.| davidlat.substack.com
Here's a curated yet comprehensive collection of news updates, original documents, and online commentary.| davidlat.substack.com
Congratulations, Stanford Law, you're now in the limelight.| davidlat.substack.com
