Milbank
Shocks
The
Market:
Everyone
had
settled
into
the
old
associate
pay
scale,
when
Milbank
decided
to
yet
again
respond
to
the
rise
in
the
cost
of
living.
Scoreboard:
Follow
all
the
matching
salary
moves
with
this
scorecard.
That’s
The
Price
Of
A
Checked
Bag:
Davis
Polk’s
Spirit
Airlines
bankruptcy
filing
shows
second-year
associates
billing
$1,410
an
hour.
Send
In
The
Clones:
Vorys,
Sater,
Seymour
and
Pease
built
AI
“personas”
of
19
of
its
partners
so
associates
can
consult
a
low-resolution
map
of
the
partner’s
brain
without
bothering
the
actual
partner.
You
Got
Mossed:
A
federal
judge
gutted
the
DOJ’s
theory
that
“86
47”
reads
as
a
threat,
holding
in
a
separate
protest
case
that
the
phrase
is
protected
speech
weeks
before
James
Comey’s
seashell
trial.
DOJ
Lawyers
Either
Very
Dumb
Or
Working
As
Moles:
The
superseding
indictment
against
the
Southern
Poverty
Law
Center
managed
to
make
the
government’s
already
flimsy
case
even
worse.
Never
Never
Land:
A
federal
judge
ruled
Trump’s
handpicked
board
can’t
rename
the
Kennedy
Center
after
him
and
found
the
president
lied
about
the
renovation
study,
prompting
Trump
to
rage-quit.
Calvinball
With
A
Twist:
Supreme
Court
Republicans
used
the
shadow
docket
to
let
Alabama
install
new,
racist
maps…
because
they
don’t
want
to
even
try
to
pen
an
opinion
explaining
this
one.
Regularity
Is
A
Virtue:
Supreme
Court
reform
is
almost
inevitable.
The
latest
installment
in
this
spirited
debate
explains
why
term
limits
are
the
right
answer.