Meet the parking lot after school: Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson is catastrophically bad at parking. Also keeping his hands to himself, as he is charged with misdemeanor battery and intentional damage to property. Brown 1: The 14th annual ATL Top 50 Law School rankings are here, with the University of Chicago back on top for the first time since 2021 and the formula still rewarding outcomes — jobs, bar time, cost — that actually pay the loans. Sorry, excuse: Judge Eleanor Ross sent her former clerks letters of apology so deliberately vague that they named neither the case nor the lies about it — exactly the toothless slap her colleagues blessed when they tried to keep the whole thing confidential. Face The Music: DC judge dismisses Kennedy Center’s breach of contract lawsuit, renamed Trump, then lost his name. Just good friends: Former Chapman dean Paul Paton, the law school’s first openly gay dean, was sued for discrimination, alleging the university fired him for marrying his husband and disguised it as a pretextual scholarship-budget dispute — in a complaint that made clear that Chapman treated John Eastman better. All is quiet on the Cravath front: The 2026 wage war is underway, but the firms fitting Milbank’s new scale are almost all litigation boutiques while traditional Biglaw sits idly, waiting for Cravath to bless the raise before anyone breaks stride. Invisible Quote: A federal judge in Mississippi disqualified all lawyers in a case after both sides found themselves facing wild cases.
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