Okay, by now we’ve all had our enjoyable chortle over the debacle that is Elon Musk’s Twitter. The pay-to-play blue checkmark process was such a disaster — and a predictable one at that — Read more…

The fundamental difference between a lawyer who is satisfied and thriving and another who is dissatisfied and struggling is a growth mindset. There are few, if any, areas in which mindset makes a bigger difference than business development. Read more

In the most exceptional careers, it is often not all that lonely at the top: For the extraordinarily successful, a partner or small, longstanding team is often an integral part of their success. This is especially true of project-focused endeavors such as creating movies, where the creative person needs a partner to take care of the production side of the endeavor. Read more

Thanks to an uncertain economy, corporate practice may be struggling a bit right now but litigation seems to be humming along quite nicely. As always, clients want the very best of the best when it comes to the law firms that are handling their litigation matters. According to a new ranking from BTI Consulting Group, certain firms seem to be doing better than others in clients’ eyes when it comes to their grasp on novel work. From BTI’s Mad Clientist blog: Read More

Sometimes a judge just needs to say something for the record. In SEC v. Moraes, Judge Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York approved a standard consent agreement concluding an SEC enforcement action. But Judge Abrams refused to do so without expressing her disapproval of the SEC’s long-standing practice of demanding that all settling parties agree to never deny or even “create the impression” that the SEC’s allegations are not true upon pain of reopening the investigatio…… read more

Kanye West’s antisemitism continues to have repercussions for the rapper’s legal representation. West’s problematic behavior spans more than just the antisemitic rant that got him temporarily banned from Twitter — read more….