@joshualenon
#Legaltech hype man & Lawyer in Residence at Clio. Helping lawyers be a part of future legal system. Consigliere of the #LegalTechMafia. Creator of the #peasantking cuisine hashtag. Often spotted in #Vancouver, Canada. Admitted in #NewYork
The pass rate for first-time takers who sat for the bar exam rose by more than a percentage point last year over 2024, according to statistics released by the American Bar Association. www.law360.com/artic...
Four sitting federal judges at Legalweek described the living hell they and their families face daily: threats, swatting, doxing, and worse. But they’re still showing up and doing their jobs. They need our support.
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The State Bar of California has bulked up its breach of contract and fraud suit against the administrator of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, filing an amended complaint in light of information it says it learned from internal communications unearthed amid discovery.
Bayer-owned Monsanto shelled out $1 million in sanctions on based on findings that the agro-chemical giant improperly marked thousands of documents as privileged when battling PCB poisoning claims tied to a Washington state school in cases that have since been settled.
New: The chief judge of the 9th Corcuit said it will reexamine how it manages the court's "enormous" immigration docket after several Trump-appointed judges "disrupted" its policymaking process with a ruling declaring its practice of pausing deportations unlawful. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
To be fair, Covid was also self-inflicted. They went out of their way to slash any & all pandemic detection, mitigation, and preparedness that had worked against bird flu & ebola outbreaks under Obama.
Covid was inflicted on us by Republican governance.
(Hate that this sounds conspiracy-ish.)
#Lawst
Biglaw’s Merger Market Is Heating Up — And More Firms Are Willing To Talk
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/biglaws-merger-market-is-heating-up-and-more-firms-are-willing-to-talk/
Bold move, blaming the judges you are definitely going to appear in front of again.
By bold, I mean stupid.
The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.
Grounds for appeal on clear error?
Wrestling a bit with this one.
Does that mean the fake citations are now precedential or that injecting fake citations negates an ability to object to their being relied upon?
Neither is a good outcome.
lol the clerk just said "the hearing starts when the judge comes in, the clock does not matter"
Patent term adjustment just hit 296 days—erasing years of progress on USPTO backlog reduction. What's driving this surge? Read our latest analysis on Patently-O to see the hidden costs behind the push for new applications.
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In remarks before the U.S. Judicial Conference, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) took aim at the Supreme Court's shadow docket.
Excerpt:
Need two users to use a new feature I'm championing at @goclio.bsky.social to get a nice round number about which to brag.
Hitting refresh on the report over and over is not working!
C'mon!
Today Vancouver council is set to approve a staff recommendation to back away from their push to become a Bitcoin friendly city.
Here's my story about it, along with an extended montage about what Ken Sim has said about Bitcoin on various podcasts in the last two years.
SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.
Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
I'm confused by the need for jets in a downtown airport.
Is it purely to support billionaires with private planes?
Surprisingly quick uptake.
This seems to fill a real unmet need.
The pipeline is real.
Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing for Law Firms
Great topic!
Nice! I’ll need a way to include both Kindle, Humble Bundles, and Libby reads.
Now I want to catalog my library!
Been a few years since I’ve done that.
Loving @legalethics.bsky.social’s photo in her recent #legalethics @abovethelaw.com column. Come for the library aesthetic, stay for important updates in an increasingly embattled legal profession.
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There’s so much to stay on top of!
Clearly a raptor of some
type is a better supervisor in these circumstances. That’s basic ornithology!
