Can’t Blame AI For This Email Disaster: The NCAA handed its Rhode Island case over to Foley & Lardner after its Holland & Knight lawyers were caught suggesting the judge was “dumb” and referring to the plaintiff as “poop man.” It came out because they cc’d opposing counsel.
Whose Bankruptcy Is It Anyway: Lewis Rice’s bankruptcy practice leader is out after unsecured creditors alleged he spent seven months representing the debtors’ owner rather than the estates paying the bills.
Thrice Bitten: A Georgia federal judge sanctioned Skadden and Kirkland $2 million for withholding evidence in a False Claims Act case, directing the money to ethics and professionalism instruction at the state’s law schools.
Managed Servitude Organization: Private equity’s pitch for law firm MSO deals now includes parking equity partners in the non-lawyer entity so the firm can bind them with the non-competes that ethics rules would otherwise forbid. That seems… not great.
A Ballroom Of One’s Own: The Supreme Court stayed an injunction against Trump’s East Wing demolition on the theory that nobody has standing to challenge it, which means the next president is welcome — AND ENCOURAGED! — to point the bulldozers at One First Street citing the same opinion.
Square Feet Don’t Lie: Legal sector office leasing climbed 17% year-over-year to nearly 12.2 million square feet in the first half of 2026, which is not a thing firms do for a workforce they expect to replace with AI.
Whoop, There It Is: Texas A&M posted a 97.7% modified employment score for the Classes of 2023 through 2025, topping a list on which UC Irvine logged the biggest improvement of anyone.
In Memoriam: Erin Piacenti, a 2021 Fordham Law graduate and a vice president at Bank of America, was killed in what police describe as an unprovoked knife attack in Times Square.