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Elise Bernlohr Maizel

@elisebmaizel.bsky.social
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Law professor at Michigan State. Thinking and writing about corporate lawyers, corporate harm, and corporate oversight.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
brb going to michigan to canvas
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A policy designed to keep mothers in bad marriages. (It will also make it harder to detect child abuse.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
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Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones (Gift Article)
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Roughly 97% of the vote was in favor, according to preliminary results released at the company’s annual meeting." Yeah, because Dell has a dual class share structure and public shareholders have 9% of the voting power. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/dell-sha...
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Dell Shareholders Approve Corporate Move From Delaware to Texas
Dell Technologies Inc. investors approved the company’s proposal to move its legal home from Delaware to Texas, a change that will set new restrictions on smaller shareholders.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Checking in on the law professors on here and...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I lost my job, oil is six dollars a gallon, my kids have measles, and secret police roam the streets, killing and imprisoning people at random. But at least now students at schools I've never heard of aren't heckling conservative speakers that I've never heard of.
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You can read the analysis from @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and me on SSRN or the California Law Review Online. We are still pursuing our rights to review the settlement agreements in our FOIA case [3/4]
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Now, the Trump Administration has abandoned its appeals, perhaps because it recognized the EOs were unlawful in the first place -- or perhaps because the EOs accomplished the chilling effect they were designed to have [2/4]
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Early in his second term, Donald Trump issued unprecedented Executive Orders against half a dozen private law firms. Four of them -- including my old law shop, @WilmerHale, sued and won in federal district court [1/4]
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨 Law360 picked up on our FOIA lawsuit. ⚖️ @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I want to read the Trump/Big Law contracts. 📑 In part so we can analyze them, as we did, in short form, here: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=538.... www.law360.com/employment-a...
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Law Professors Sue EEOC For Firm DEI Letter Records - Law360 Employment Authority
Two professors at law schools in Michigan and Florida have sued the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in D.C. federal court, seeking documents related to 20 letters the agency sent to law firms ...
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is the direct result of a judicial order. Law isn’t magic but it can be powerful stuff.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
Alex Pretti was already restrained when federal agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis, a New York Times analysis of video shows. The footage contradicts the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the shooting.
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Timeline: How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
A moment-by-moment analysis of video from the scene shows that Mr. Pretti was already restrained when fatal shots were fired, which appears to contradict the federal government’s account of the event.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today would be a good day to donate to immigration defense in Minnesota. www.ilcm.org/donate/
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Donate to ILCM
Every dollar donated to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota goes to support our mission of providing the highest quality legal services, education, and advocacy to meet the needs of low-income immig...
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I talked to CNN about the privileged assertions being made by Epstein's estate.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then?
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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Rigorous originalist thought from my brilliant colleague.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I don't check this website every day, but I did today and that was a mistake. I want to learn nothing more about metaphorical rivers and canyons.
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
VC David went out of her way to identify the dogs' names when she could
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We're just doing 30 Rock episodes now
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Also, Sabrina Shroff--who represented Sandwich Guy--is a phenomenal attorney. I worked on a matter with Sabrina when I was in practice and have no doubt the defense case was expertly litigated.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Happy new @themountaingoats.bsky.social record day to all who celebrate! This year's theme is nautical musical theatre!
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
At last, the voice we've been waiting to hear on Tornetta...
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨🪶⚖️ @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I just came out with a new essay on Trump's assault on Big Law. Available in the California Law Review Online here: www.californialawreview.org/online/trump... [1/5]
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Ethics & Independence In Trump’s War on Big Law — California Law Review
In his second term, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the nation’s largest law firms. Through a series of executive orders and highly unusual EEOC (Equal Employment Oppor...
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
How does private equity work, you ask? Well let's start with a lesson on management fees, illustrated here.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
There goes my corporate comparative law project. Wouldn't want to be caught smuggling in ideas.
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Jennifer Hendricks @jenniferhendricks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It warms my civ-pro-professor heart.
Protest sign that says "PROTECT DUE PROCESS"
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Chris Hampson @chrishampsonlaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
@elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I wrote a piece last summer on the private lawsuits against law firms over DEI. Now that the EEOC is moving against DEI, it’s even more relevant.
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strength_07-24c.pdf | Elise Bernlohr Maizel
In this moment of renewed attacks on law firms, I wanted to reshare this piece that Chris Hampson and I co-authored last year in the wake of SFFA-inspired…
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Law school project finds slavery citations still being used today
Students at Michigan State University's law school have found that slavery is still baked into American jurisprudence.
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I'm very excited to share that my latest project, exploring the relationship between corporate misconduct, corporate culture, and corporate oversight doctrine has found a home with the Duke Law Journal.
Title and abstract, Illegal Corporate Cultures, forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Is this where I come to brag that Gerard Way was my friend on MySpace?
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Go Birds
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I sound like a broken record, but to understand what's happening in government look to Musk's Twitter purchase. Before Musk officially closed his deal for Twitter in Oct. 2022, his team demanded that the company freeze all payments to outside contractors and vendors. bsky.app/profile/eric...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Wasn't sure whether to post this paper yet, but in light of *hand waves* everything, here's my take on current corporate governance disputes, DExit, Tornetta, Moelis, ESG - the whole shebang papers.ssrn.com/abstract=512...
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy February Cycle Eve to all who celebrate!
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is obviously and rightly being ratioed. But I just want to jump in to express my undying love for New Jersey Transit. Underappreciated and under resourced, but a tremendous public good. C'mon Phil, pull your socks up and tell New Jersey they can park in Secaucus.
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The just-filed complaint challenging Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship. Filed in the D.N.H. by the national ACLU, ACLU-NH, ACLU-MA, ACLU-ME, NAACP LDF, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and the Asian Law Caucus. www.aclu-nh.org/en/press-rel...
Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 1Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 2Birthright Citizenship Complaint Page 3
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Never have I navigated faster to @annmlipton.bsky.social 's bluesky page. Looks like the SEC did a thing.
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Not me having a midlife crisis because the new Vice Chancellor in Delaware Chancery is exactly my age
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Ok I know I'm a law professor and this is outside my lane, but here's my year end list of underrated albums of 2024:
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
It's worth noting what the shareholder proposal was actually asking the board to do--to prepare and release a report on the "risks" of DEI. The board of Costco, in a move that counts as brave in the current environment, declined to do some right wing group's ideological homework.
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Sujeet Indap @sindap.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
big news today in distressed debt land: Silver Point accused by SEC of failing to monitor star lawyer on.ft.com/4fpSpEN
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Silver Point accused by SEC of failing to monitor star lawyer
[FREE TO READ] Hedge fund says the late outside counsel Chaim Fortgang was not subject to tough information restrictions
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
*Screams in new Michigan State professor*: omg THAT'S what those are?!?!
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ProMarket @promarket.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
NEW: @elisebmaizel.bsky.social (MSU College of Law) argues that zealous advocacy in corporate law, when supporting misconduct, should be seen as disloyalty. This shift could realign lawyers' priorities toward upholding the law and serving the public good. www.promarket.org/2024/12/06/c...
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Corporate Lawyering and Corporate Lawyers’ Disloyalty - ProMarket
The principle of zealous advocacy has long guided the legal profession, often to the detriment of ethical corporate compliance. Elise Maizel argues that reframing such advocacy in corporate law as dis...
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I'm beating my drum on corporate lawyers in ProMarket today: www.promarket.org/2024/12/06/c...
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Corporate Lawyering and Corporate Lawyers’ Disloyalty - ProMarket
The principle of zealous advocacy has long guided the legal profession, often to the detriment of ethical corporate compliance. Elise Maizel argues that reframing such advocacy in corporate law as dis...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
holy shit
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Elise Bernlohr Maizel @elisebmaizel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And sometimes you can even co-author with them! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Discovery as a Compliance Problem
<p><span>Discovery in a commercial case can become a quagmire. Lawyers have an ethical obligation to advance their clients’ interests, and for litigators, the p
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