Chris Williams

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

Posts by Chris Williams

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New Top New York Firm Could Be On The Horizon! — See Also

Discussions Are Under Way: Partners will vote on if McDermott and Schulte will merge within 90 days.

Susman Godfrey Still Putting Money Behind Diversity: Congratulations to the winners of the Susman Godfrey Prize!

Lick The Boot, Get Booted: Associates want the partners at Pro Bono Payola firms to get kicked off of their respective boards!

Really Does Depend On Who You Know: Emil Bove could be headed to the Third Circuit.

Acting Has Real Consequences: You can't fake your way into a legal job for very long before the consequences come.

New Law Will Create Federal Consequences For Sexually Explicit Deepfakes: A step in the right direction!

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The 4 Day In-Person Mandate Is Coming — See Also

A Top 10 Firm Expects Associates To Be In The Office "At Least" 4 Days A Week: Is the 5th day implied?

DOJ Gets All Retaliatory: Because chilling law firms from opposing the administration is the point.

Wrong Place, Right Time To Get Suspended: Broward County judge suspended for his inappropriate courtroom jokes.

Law Professor Faced With Practical Problem After Ethical Oopsie: Will they have to write a new exam after the accidental leak?

Time For Another California Bar Screw-Up Story: Turns out they didn't even grade all of the tests correctly!

You'll Never Guess Why Harvard Law's Copy Of The Magna Carta Is So Good: It’s because it was real the whole time!

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Remember When Diversity And Pro Bono Hours Were Selling Points? — See Also

Biglaw Firm Commits To Huge Scrub Of Diversity And Pro Bono Work From Website: Good deeds really don't go unpunished.

More Capitulation, More Problems: Another Congressional investigation is headed toward Biglaw.

Kirkland & Ellis Chair Joins Trump For Business Talks In Saudi Arabia: Selling out the rule of law makes for some grand business connections!

Broward County Judge Facing Ethics Complaint Over Deepfakes And Not Doing The Reading: Funny, just a little bit of due diligence could have avoided all of this.

Things Are Looking Up For Mental Health: Less than ideal but progress is progress!

On This Week Of Thinking Like A Lawyer: Biglaw firms pretend they never took the knee.

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‘It Feels Like The Partners Versus The Associates’ — See Also

The Moral Divide Between Young Lawyers And Their Seniors Is Growing: When did firms trade principle for capital?

Top Ranked Law School Schools Administration On The Rule Of Law: Good on you, Duke.

Here's A Projection Of Next Year's Law School Rankings: Nice while it lasted, WashU.

California Bar Thinks Provisional Licensing Is In Order: Won't fix the mess, but it might sop some of it up.

Americans For Equal Opportunity Are Calling In The EEOC: Will they investigate Biglaw summer internships?

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Bill Those Diversity Hours To Code 404 — See Also

Nixon Peabody Scrubs Diversity Billing Codes And Multiple Mentions Of Diversity: They may have kept the pictures, but the changes made are obvious.

More Partner Departures Over Biglaw Capitulation: Cadwalader just lost two partners to Foley & Lardner.

Gambling Has Its Costs: Lawyer sentenced to prison time and will pay millions in restitution.

The Billable Hour Is Leading, But Flat Fees Are Closing In: Consumer preference and AI developments are encouraging a shift in compensation models.

Rümeysa Öztürk Is Back Home!: Huge win for the rule of law and free speech!

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Former Supreme Court Justice Souter Has Passed Away — See Also

We're Still Feeling His Impact On The Court: The unexpected liberal judge is a model for judges everywhere.

Cadwalader Feeling The Consequences Of Cowering: They're seeing an exodus of talented, principled lawyers.

Here's The Winner Of Our 16th Annual Law Revue!: Congratulations to George Washington University!

You'll Never Guess What Happened Next: Lawyer gets in trouble for motley crew of bad behavior.

If It's Good Enough For Cable, It's Good Enough For The DOJ: Trump taps Jeanine Pirro for interim U.S. Attorney.

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