morning-docket:-0127.26

Morning Docket: 01.27.26

* The $4000 billable hour has arrived. [Reuters]

* Motorcycle gangs and pending domestic violence charges may be behind the plot to kill an Indiana judge. [ABA Journal]

* Remember when Foley & Lardner fired a new associate after she expressed support for the citizens of Gaza? After winning a preliminary battle over certain claims, the firm will have to go to court. [Reuters]

* This will totally shock you, but big banks may still be loaded with misogyny. [Law360]

* Former Biglaw partner returns to the U.S. from Asia transformed as a poet. Isn’t that the Colonel Kurtz story arc? [Law.com International]

* Media begins to worry about law students when AI fully arrives. Maybe ask more questions about how AI is supposed to fully arrive when the biggest AI company is teetering on collapse? [NY Times]

* The Atlantic invites torture enthusiast John Yoo to write an article explaining why we shouldn’t have international law. [The Atlantic]