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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Reform here is much needed, as hiring has absurdly moved to midway through 1L year.

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We’ve gone from real-life Veep to Silicon Valley.

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Scott Pelley with @lulugn.bsky.social on being told the President had commented on his firing. (I’m not crying, you’re crying etc)

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Oh boy. 9th Cir. sanctions two attorneys for briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases as a result of undisclosed AI usage who then doubled down and lied when caught. Sanctions in next. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

The misconduct in this case did not end with the initial filing of the briefs. At every subsequent step—including a Motion to Correct, oral argument, the Response to the panel’s Order to Show Cause, and more recent filings in other cases—the attorneys knowingly or recklessly made false statements to this Court. The attorneys each violated their duty of candor when they claimed that the nonexistent cases in the opening brief were the result of typographical or copy-paste errors. In circumstances such as these, the duty of candor requires a transparent disclosure of the source of the errors. The panel stressed that when an attorney learns of any error in a filing—including generative AI hallucinations—he should immediately alert the court and opposing counsel of the error and disclose its source. If, in the Motion to Correct, the attorneys had disclosed that AI was used in the opening brief against firm policy and apologized for failing to check the brief, lesser sanctions may have been warranted. But that is not what they did.

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

One of my all-time favorites, from a few weeks ago

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

In Baltimore for the Capital Area #legalwriting conference and visited the terrific Maryland Center for History and Culture. One treat: a reproduction of Key’s original, handwritten poem, which shows that Key first wrote “*through* the dawn’s early light” before changing it to “by”

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I don't think I've posted about my Punctuated Law site since the old #AppellateTwitter & #legalwriting days. But with July 4th coming up, some folks might be interested in our unique Declaration merch, including adult & kid tees, art prints, and hoodies. punctuatedlaw.myshopify.com/collections/...

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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Seems like a great job! #LegalWriting

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I watched a webinar that was ostensibly about how law schools can better prep students for using AI. But it was woefully short on details. One partner at a major firm said “We expect new attys to use AI effectively on day 1.” But no mention of any specific use-cases. 1/

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A friendly #legalwriting reminder: please don’t turn every long organization name into an acronym/initialism. Here, there’s only one YMCA in the complaint. So just use “YMCA” as the short form; the reader will know what you mean. armedforcesbrewingco.com/wp-content/u...

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of those great things about adulthood: waking up, seeing that your tap water is tinted orange-brown, and realizing, “Welp, that’s today’s project.”

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This reminds me of something I heard years ago at one of our many, terrific #legalwriting conferences: “We tend to think that students mainly care about how much we know. But just as often, they want to know how much we care.”

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Law students should be taking State Constitutional Law. If your law school doesn’t offer it, ask for it.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/05/2026

When I was in law school, working for the Justice Department was this prestige career that students dreamed about having someday. Now, Trump has so thoroughly poisoned its reputation that it’s dangling $25K to get people to *consider* jobs that literally thousands of lawyers would have killed for.

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The Justice Department Offers America’s Least Employable Lawyers $25,000 to Humiliate Themselves In Public

In response to an ongoing staff shortage, the Trump administration launches a real-world experiment to see how much an attorney’s reputation is worth.

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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

statecourtreport.org

State Judicial Clerkship Resource

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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I know legal scholars are supposed to stop making legal arguments and just make moral/political ones, but can I get an exception here?

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Props to my afternoon #legalwriting students—who managed a very simple, but effective April Fool’s Day prank: precisely swapping their regular seats two that the entire classroom was a mirror image of the normal arrangement. It messed with my brain way more than I could have expected.

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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Teaching law students the practical skills of lawyering—writing, research, and analysis—is an important job.

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Carl Cecere @carlcecere.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

First time really digging into using AI in oral argument prep, using a couple of different methods, to mixed results. Pros, so far: 1. oral argument questions that I wouldn't necessarily anticipated. Like participating in a decent moot. 2. offered some decent one-liners.

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Deb Golden @debgoldendc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I know it's a lot easier when someone sends you a redline, but really you should know how to compare versions in Word. It's a basic skill in the lawyer toolbox.

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Anne Ralph @anneralph.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

1000% agree. Question: What are some other basic Word skills that should be in every lawyer’s toolbox? Asking as a prof teaching great future lawyers. #AppellateSly #LawSky

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When I was growing up in Winter Park, FL (15 minutes from downtown Orlando) in the late 80s/early 90s, there was a 100+-acre orange grove next to the middle school. It’s now a subdivision w/ dozens of million-dollar homes.

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

“I refuse to acknowledge the validity of your show-cause order because it’s not signed by an Article III judge” is giving off some strong sovereign-citizen vibes.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17/03/2026

Everyone stfu the Sixth Circuit issued *gigantic* AI sanctions storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We wholeheartedly agree. Irion and Egli breached the trust that we must have in the
lawyers appearing before us. They have brought the profession into disrepute. Irion's and Egli's failure to comply with the basic rules of our profession has forced us and the City to unnecessarily expend time and resources on a case that should have been litigated and resolved straightforwardly but was not. More importantly, by breaching our trust, we can no longer rely on the representations in Irion's and Egli's briefs, harming both their clients (whose cases are now viewed with skepticism and this court who must now independently verify everything Irion and Egli write. Finally, Irion and Egli have sullied the reputation of our bar, which now must litigate under the cloud of their conduct. We therefore issue these sanctions to Irion and Egli, the rationales for which we will explain below:
1. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally reimburse appellees in full for their reasonable attorneys' fees on appeal in all three appeals.
2. Irion and Egli must jointly and severally pay double costs to appellees for costs incurred under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 on appeal in all three appeals.
3. Appellees must file an accounting of their costs and attorneys' fees on appeal, with supporting documentation, no later than seven days from the date of this

order. Irion and Egli shall file any responses or objections to appellees' requests for costs and attorneys' fees on appeal no later than seven days thereafter. There will be no replies.
4. Irion and Egli must each separately and individually pay $15,000 to the registry of this court as punitive sanctions for the proceedings in this court in all three appeals.
5. The clerk will forward a copy of this order to the chief judge to consider disciplinary proceedings under Sixth Circuit Local Rule 46.
6. If Irion and Egli are financially unable to comply with some or all of the requirements of this order, they must file an affidavit under seal describing their financial situation along with their objections to appellees' fee requests.

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This seems like a big deal.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Once again, a self-professed champion of "Western Civilization" shows disdain for its basic concepts, such as "the unexamined life is not worth living," attributed to Socrates, who is not exactly "modern."

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Selection Sunday to all who celebrate.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors
or surrender accepted;
(2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such
that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted;
(3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable
ability to accept surrender would exist;
(4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate
forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and
(5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Judge VanDyke's opinion was so offensive that 29 of the Ninth Circuit's senior and active judges, including a few Trump appointees, issued these rebukes:

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've already read this like seven times, and it's still just so jarring to watch. Ezra just full-stopping after eight — Eight! — words prove her wrong is just brutal.

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Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 10/03/2026

Judge: the challenge is, when you file something with the court that is not forthright, it makes me question everything else you say

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Last semester, one of my courses was 2:10-3:10. The first week, I felt a bit rushed toward the end of class, but I wrapped up right on time, and the students quietly walked out—at 3 pm sharp. Props to the first-week 1Ls who overcame the collective action problem, kept quiet, and just left.

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Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My periodic reminder (especially with law-firm interviews in full swing): Law students looking for BigLaw jobs should absolutely consider whether the firms they’re interviewing with align with their own personal and professional values.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Unironically love my opposing counsel, who called me back after a meet and confer today because he forgot to ask how my family in Israel is doing (which reminded me to ask about his extended family in Iran). He's wrong about EVERYTHING substantive, of course, but just a good human being

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UVA Law School @uvalaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

At her investiture ceremony, Virginia Chief Justice Cleo Powell ’82, the first Black woman to hold the position, reflected on her journey as a jurist. @vpm.org

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Chief Justice Cleo Powell formally sworn into Supreme Court of Virginia

She is the first Black woman to hold the position.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
BACKGROUND ...................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
I. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION OF JUNE 3, 2025......... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT
DEFINED.
II. THREE INMATES ALLEGE RETALIATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN THIS
CASE ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
III. THE COURT’S ENTRY OF THE NATIONWIDE PROTECTIVE ORDER ..... ERROR!
BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
LEGAL STANDARD ............................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
ARGUMENT ............................................................ ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
I. THE INMATES’ RETALIATION ALLEGATIONS ARE
UNSUBSTANTIATED. ............................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
A. Former Inmate Dye’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. ........... Error!
Bookmark not defined.
B. Inmate Meskill’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. Error! Bookmark
not defined.
C. Inmate Pinson’s Retaliation Allegations Are Unsubstantiated. . Error! Bookmark
not defined.
II. THE PROTECTIVE ORDER IS LEGALLY DEFECTIVE. ..... ERROR! BOOKMARK
NOT DEFINED.
A. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with Rule 65(d) ...... Error! Bookmark not
defined.
B. The Protective Order Fails to Comply with PLRA’s Requirements ............. Error!
Bookmark not defined.
CONCLUSION ......................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.

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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Speechless. Government moves to not move to dismiss law firm EO appeals.

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Joseph Mead @josephwmead.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Congrats to Jenner & Block, Perkins Coie, Susman Godfrey, and Wilmer Hale, and congrats to their lawyers at Clement & Murphy, Cooley, Munger Tolles, and Williams & Connolly. You've shown integrity and conviction when many of your peers showed that they have none.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🚨BREAKING: Virginia voters will head to the polls starting Friday to weigh in on a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states after a court ruled* that election preparations can move forward. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Virginia redistricting election can move forward, court rules

Although Monday’s ruling means the redistricting referendum will take place, it is not the end of the legal saga.

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