Chris Opfer

Reporter/editor, bathroom graffiti enthusiast. @BLaw. Signal: 5712364850. [email protected]. u/chrisopfer DMs open. Legal industry newsletter link below.

[Ben Penn @benjaminpenn]

JUST IN: The Justice Department is taking an apparently new tack to overcome woes in attracting qualified lawyers: Offering $25,000 signing bonuses. https://t.co/z3pjx6FPbE

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

Remember when the Trumps fired lawyer Bill Burck over his work for Harvard? One year later, he's back in the fold. https://t.co/mn4YbV1HpE

[Meghan Tribe @TribeMeghan]

Top appellate lawyer Kannon Shanmugam has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell to launch a Supreme Court practice for the second time in less than a decade, building on the firm’s strong and steadily created base in Washington.

https://t.co/XhimPin1HR

[Meghan Tribe @TribeMeghan]

Prominent appellate lawyer Kannon Shanmugam is leaving Paul Weiss for Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Shanmugam and Paul Weiss partner Masha Hansford will launch Davis Polk’s new Supreme Court and appellate practice, the firm said Thursday.
https://t.co/ftyeGPiYg6

[. @TanaGaneva]

Why is everything a fucking podcast? If you're not Jon Stewart I'd rather read your words—you are a writer, yeah?—than look at you talk at me through a Zoom box. So weird that one of the biggest annoyances of the pandemic—Zoom meetings!—is now the prevailing form of media https://t.co/mShb6qLccG

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

No.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthletic: For 40 years, Duke has been college basketball’s most polarizing team. People love to hate Duke.

But has Duke basketball become less hateable? Perhaps, maybe, even likable? https://t.co/oFIAHyfxrA

[Ben Penn @benjaminpenn]

NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors. https://t.co/xoyWbfH24G

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

NEW: Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp helped Epstein protect his plea deal on sex trafficking charges against legal attacks in the months before the disgraced financier died in jail, recently released emails show.

https://t.co/LoUhmLeaXY

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

Karp's "small number of social interactions by email" with Epstein include advising him on a letter to NYT editors defending Epstein's controversial plead deal.

https://t.co/hLVrl6lb31

[Michael S. Schmidt @nytmike]

NEW: Brad Karp, chairman of the giant law firm Paul Weiss, said on Monday that he regretted his social interactions with Jeffery Epstein, after a series of emails revealed that the prominent lawyer had socialized with the disgraced financier and, at one point, asked him for help landing his son a job on a Woody Allen movie. W/@MattGoldstein26 https://t.co/10KdZOYv1L

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

A former DLA Piper partner is accused of raping an associate he mentored after a work dinner at the firm’s Delaware office, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. https://t.co/7CtngZcmrR

[Ryan Autullo @RyanAutullo]

After AG Ken Paxton's office hired a firm specializing in "fixing sensitive problems," we looked closer.

The hire involved an employee dispute in the office @BLaw discovered.

Paxton won't discuss. Neither will the firm, whose partner supported his campaign.

No paywall. #txlege

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

Kash Patel has fired a senior FBI official after public flight data showed Patel used a government jet to fly and see his girlfriend perform at a wrestling match. https://t.co/m4zHHnowtt

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

New: Elon Musk’s lawyer is running for Congress in Texas.

Chris Gober helped Musk’s America PAC raise more than $250 million to support President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

https://t.co/WuzMaOGW9h

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips — was made by Winnie Greco, a longtime Adams ally who resigned last year from her position…

https://t.co/145XRQ0PWk via @THECITYNY

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

A New Jersey US district court judge withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case Wednesday after lawyers complained that his opinion contained numerous errors, including made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes. https://t.co/cOfBzNbVn9

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

Republicans want to raise taxes...on litigation funders.

https://t.co/2KAFY70BDT

[Cousin Sal @TheCousinSal]

Steelers Super Bowl odds before Elon blowup: +4500
Steelers Super Bowl odds after Elon blowup: +4500

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

It's the ugliest building in DC, and that's really saying something.

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

I'm sure some fan of Brutalism would love to pick up the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's headquarters, which is likely to be put on the market soon. It's on the National Register of Historic Places, but I'm curious how it could be repurposed.

[Chris Opfer @ChrisOpfer]

New: Law firm A&O Shearman won't work on Trump trade deals as part of its $125 billion agreement with the White House, the firm's leaders said today.

@mahiradayal reporting for @BLaw.

https://t.co/Eclf89srsN

[Bloomberg @business]

Susman Godfrey filed a suit to challenge President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at its attorneys, arguing that it violates the constitution by targeting the firm for its work in court https://t.co/bryERooo4L