New Report Begs Lawyers To Defend Judges -- Ask The Florida Bar How That's Going: A new study wants the profession to step up for a judiciary under siege, a nice idea, if the bar could be bothered.
You Want To Do What Now?: There are a lot of arguments for private equity investment in law firms. Using it as a way to workaround to avoid Rule 5.6 is probably not a great one to brag about.
Trump DOJ Gets It Right: They may be taking this stand for horrible, almost certainly corrupt reasons, but the administration is right that AI training is probably fair use.
Watch That CC Field: Lawyers replaced after cc'ing the other side while casually mocking plaintiff and calling the judge "dumb."
**Do Your Job**: [California is sick and tired of lawyers filing AI slop](https://abovethelaw.com/2026/09/california-is-coming-for-lawyers-who-file-ai-generated-nonsense/).
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