Ted Janger

Judge Sooknanan is giving a master class in judging during the Trump Administration -- but really in how judges should always value the people whose lives are affected by their decisions.

Law Review: @dalie.bsky.social , Missing Strugglers: Debt's Reach, Bankruptcy's Limits, and a Proxy for Who's Left Out (July 31, 2025). dlvr.it/TMbV4n

Not defending tariffs (at all), but the story is a bit more complicated: “The British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773 to help the company. This gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea, which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places.”

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There has never been a more important time for pro-people, pro-democracy lawyers and law students to get organized.
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Meritocracy is a myth; but basic competence would be refreshing.

Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain Toy makers and stores are freezing holiday orders, predicting shortages and higher prices. Some are consulting bankruptcy lawyers, fearing their firms won’t survive.

"President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b....

It has nothing to do with antisemitism.

That’s a cover—for whatever the heck they want to do.

And using Jews as a partisan ploy? THAT’S antisemitic.

Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump Law students are weighing whether to take jobs at firms that have either capitulated to Trump or are fighting him in court.

Law students say they want to work for the firms standing up to Trump www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

“Anyone who knows Susman Godfrey knows we believe in the rule of law, and we take seriously our duty to uphold it,” the firm said on Wednesday. “There is no question that we will fight this unconstitutional order.””

“On Wednesday, Mr. Trump hit another firm, Susman Godfrey, with an executive order. The firm, which plans to fight Mr. Trump’s order, represented Dominion, a manufacturer of voting machines that lawyers allied with Mr. Trump falsely attacked.”

Trump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law Firms Four or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president’s crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire.

As one would predict re Susman (and others). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Now we get to see what happens when they sue a litigation boutique (Susman, Godfrey).

Amicus Brief Supporting Perkins Coie Gets 170 Signatures so Far, but Few Am Law 100 Firms As of Sunday, only a handful of Am Law 100 firms have signed onto the amicus brief, sources say

Whelp, this "event study" appears to be bearing out your hypothesis: www.law.com/newyorklawjo...

YouTube video by Colin Wright Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos) Woody Guthrie

This song is stuck in my head today: Arlo Guthrie singing a song by his dad youtu.be/qu-duTWccyI?...

One key lesson of the PW and Skadden debacles may be that a law firm should not let their transactional lawyers determine their litigation tactics…

WilmerHale was polite, professional, and direct.

BigLaw could learn. Now, WilmerHale needs to actually fight this thing out. These orders are blatantly, insanely unconstitutional.

Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Statement of U.S. law deans, 26 March 2025

Re-upping this!! It's going to be great. If you want to see the full agenda, and/or RSVP, here's the link: www.brooklaw.edu/news-and-eve...

To this end, the firm seeks to attract lawyers reflecting a wide variety of religious, political, ethnic, cultural, gender, sexual orientation and social backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home."

Its partners are committed to providing excellence in the rendition of legal services at the pinnacle of the profession while remaining actively engaged in matters of social consequence.

The firm’s governance is dedicated to the principle of one partner/one vote, no matter seniority or client appeal, and to universal service in all aspects of firm administration, with attendant transparency in firm management and collegiality in firm culture.

through such practice to earn a living and to derive the stimulation and pleasure of worthwhile adventure; and in all things to govern ourselves as members of a free democratic society with responsibilities both to our profession and our country.”

"The goal, Simon Rifkind wrote in 1963 in the Statement of Firm Principles, is “to achieve the highest order of excellence in the practice of the art, the science and the profession of the law; backgrounds characteristic of the city of its home."

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WARNER: “Were you in the group chat?”

GABBARD: “I won’t get into specifics.”

WARNER: “Is that because it’s classified?” 🎯 🔥

Warner rightly dragging them for an unbelievable situation. 🎪

Hate having to share a Substack, but here's one to read.

Anyways, the "Not in Our Name" letter has been signed by more than 2,600 US Jewish academics (I'm #144). And frankly, I don't know if there's ever been that much collective consensus by Jews about... anything. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss:

“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”

Just to be clear, the executive branch has no constitutional authority to refuse a court appearance on the ground of a unilateral determination that the law favors the president’s position. If the courts don’t push back, the rule of law, always precarious, never perfectly realized, is dead.

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