Milan Markovic

Arizona lets investors own law firms. Consumers pay the price An Arizona program lets Wall Street investors and other nonlawyers own law firms. It's now trailed by consumer complaints.

The Arizona Republic has a shocking series on the state's experiment with alternative business structures. The reporting should be a wake-up call for the Arizona Supreme Court and the many legal ethicists who have pushed for these types of reforms nationally.

If you are an attorney based in SoCal and would be interested in assisting me with a very small professional negligence case, please reach out.

Best. Halftime show. Ever.

She Pioneered Internet Fame, He Helped Draft a Constitution. Now They’re in Love. (Published 2023)

I'm still traumatized by this.

After a generation of one side relentlessly using all of its power to shape the ideological composition of the federal courts, and the other side straining to show everyone how noble they are—fair and measured and eager to bind themselves by the norms of the past—you get this.

VanDyke would be a fitting nominee for this administration, but my money is on Judge Ho.

As I argued then, a lawyer qua advisor has a duty to flag countervailing considerations and authorities. "Not frivolous" isn't the standard. scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/3...

I am not a Schumer fan--indeed, I think he should step aside--but credit where it's due. He anticipated that Rs would not agree to a set of *extremely* normie demands, and shutting down DHS over that is good politics.

Democrats Ease Up On 1 Of Their Biggest ICE Demands Masks might still be OK in "extraordinary and unusual circumstances," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.

"except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances" is a big enough loophole for a family of elephants to walk through. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Some people will be tempted to think that having the state dictate faculty teaching loads we can repair trust in institutions and avoid authoritarianism when in actuality having the state dictate faculty teaching is part of an authoritarian program.

The rankings are so comically bad though that FIRE is losing the veneer of "free speech org."

I recommend sending a short email if you can--the more pushback they receive on the rankings the better. I would not be shocked if they revamp them in a year or two.

Update. They are definitely sensitive about the Free Speech Rankings.

Ms. Le is a 2023 grad. The administration is going to be sending interns to court soon.

This is a bit of historical revisionism. The idea was that these new firms would provide new delivery models and expand access to justice. But A2J has gone by the wayside as firms chase private equity dollars.

TAMU AAUP condemns continued TAMU admin censorship, cancellations, misinformation, & betrayal of the public good.

Step 1. Limit citizenship. Step 2. Only citizens have 1st and 4th amendment rights.

Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $
NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$
Harvard: no
Trump: 1B
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations intensify
Trump: 200 million
NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal
Harvard: no
Trump: 0$
Harvard: ok
NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses.
Trump: How about 1B$
Harvard: no
NYT: Negotiations resume!

Are law faculty completing FIRE's survey? I am tempted to send a snarky email about the "Free Speech Rankings" instead.

My understanding is that they led the charge to capitulation.

President Mnookin's first official act should be to request the resignations of Trustees Shipman and Greenwald.

Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last month in protest of recent directives from the U.S. Department of Justice, including the department's refusal to initiate a civil rights investigation into the killing of Renee Good. Among those leaving is Ana Voss, the civil division chief, who has been helping to handle hundreds of wrongful detention petitions flooding the office since federal officers began their immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Nice to see, but it's another bad day to be a Columbia alumnus.

Resistance works, especially when you have the facts on your side: the entire basis of the complaints is bogus. I don't see why Harvard should give in to the other demands now. cc @profmarkovic.bsky.social

Kudos to Anthony. @mbkplus.bsky.social and I had some thoughts on these types of antics last week. livefromwatthall.transistor.fm/episodes/aga...

Anthony Davis and a #1 pick should do it.

Did I miss the discussion of impoundments?

The "Trump isn't that abnormal a President" takes might have been defensible during Trump 1. They are unseemly now.

His approval rating is 29% with graduate degrees holders. One reckons that is mostly dentists, plastic surgeons, and lobbyists.

What is your biggest bet about the future of A.I. in five years? Yuval Noah Harari Yuval Noah Harari Historian Within five years, A.I. agents are likely to become legal persons in at least some countries. Melanie Mitchell Melanie Mitchell Computer scientist A.I. won’t have cured cancer or solved physics. Also, no one will consider the ability to converse fluently a definitive sign of intelligence.

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