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Stat(s) Of The Week: Best Of Breed Law Schools https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/stats-of-the-week-best-of-breed-law-schools/

The Knicks Are Making Biglaw Partners… Nice https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/the-knicks-are-making-biglaw-partners-nice/

ICE Wants To Hand Out Its Unproven Facial Recognition Tech To Thousands Of Cops https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/ice-wants-to-hand-out-its-unproven-facial-recognition-tech-to-thousands-of-cops/

My mayor's muslim, my bagels jewish, Biglaw let me thrive, Knicks in five.

Kennedy Center Loses Trump Name, Still Hopes To Keep Washington National Opera’s Endowment https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/kennedy-center-loses-trump-name-still-hopes-to-keep-washington-national-operas-endowment/

Chief Judge Pryor Decides No Harm, No Foul Over Judge Ross’s Flimsy Apologies https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/chief-judge-pryor-decides-no-harm-no-foul-over-judge-rosss-flimsy-apologies/

A Pox On Everyone’s House: Mississippi Court Disqualifies All 4 Attorneys In Major Hallucination Scandal https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/a-pox-on-everyones-house-mississippi-court-disqualifies-all-4-attorneys-in-major-hallucination-scandal/

If the ATL Top 50 Rankings represent Best in Show, which law schools would earn ribbons as Best of Breed?

The World Is Coming: ‘Airport Lawyers’ Is Back https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/the-world-is-coming-airport-lawyers-is-back/

Biglaw’s Summer Of Money: Tracking The 2026 Salary Wars https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/associate-compensation-scorecard-the-2026-summer-of-salary-increases/

‘Someone Stop Them From Doing This Again’: Biglaw Recruiting Is Making 1Ls Miserable https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/someone-stop-them-from-doing-this-again-biglaw-recruiting-is-making-1ls-miserable/

Morning Docket: 06.12.26 https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/morning-docket-06-12-26/

from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept

The disconnect between the public's perception of this case and how the judiciary is treating it should be a bigger deal.

Never piss off a judge.

The race to match is on. We'll keep track of every raise, bonus, and compensation move as law firms make their decisions.

Students are sounding the alarm on recruiting timelines that force them to chase jobs while learning how to be lawyers.

* Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk behind SpaceX's incredible -- a word we mean very literally -- IPO. [Law360] * "Lawyers Have Been Hallucinating for Decades, Judges Say—AI Just Made It Faster" is both true and damning. [Law.com] * Law students hate Biglaw's lawless, whirlwind recruiting calendar. [Reuters] * NextGen UBE arrives next month to deliver a slightly different, still completely useless ritualistic marker. [ABA Journal] * Jay Clayton nominated for intelligence job after Trump attempt to put unqualified housing chief in the job. Clayton isn't qualified either, but the comparison to Pulte is an old as dirt sales tactic. [Bloomberg Law News] * Lawmakers ask Goldman CEO why he's trying to keep lawyer on the job after she resigned over Epstein ties. [CNN] * "Lawyer who trafficked drugs while serving as a city attorney wins back license" is quite the headline. [Iowa Capital Dispatch]

As immigration lawyers, we may not be on the field, but we have an important role to play.