Posts by Nancy Rapoport
John E. Olson, Analyst Fired for Enron Skepticism, Dies at 83 nytimes.com/2025/12/18/bus… via @NYTimes. R. I. P., brave soul.
A friend just sent me a link to this animated short, and I loved it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efz...
Want to see government shutdowns end quickly? Make Congress work w/o pay while the shutdown continues.
Happy to report that my latest article has been accepted: Scrappy or Strategic? Law Firm Decision-Making in Light of Executive Orders, 13 Emory Corp. Gov. & Accountability Rev. ___ (2026) (draft posted at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
LORDY! I'd missed that story!
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I just bought this sign from Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5B7BNG...) because it's the perfect expression of what happens when a client who isn't well-versed in the law brings a lawyer something that AI just generated and asks the lawyer to "just polish it up a bit."
Violence Against Jews Is About More Than Left or Right
The latest Stanford Law-driven law prof brief is out: law.stanford.edu/publications.... Proud to join 774 colleagues.
I was too late to join this amicus brief for Jenner & Block or WilmerHale, but I'm proud to have signed on to this brief for Perkins Coie: cdn.prod.website-files.com/67cf71f1f27e....
I'm proud to stand with 675 colleagues on these two amicus briefs: law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u... and law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u....
It's out: digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjlta/vol20/... (@LegalDecoder's Joe Tiano and I wrote a paper about the shape of law firms in the new world of GenAI).
It's been a busy amicus-brief week. First, this one (lnkd.in/gpj8q-c3) (helped to edit), and then this one (lnkd.in/gXAiHCcg) in support of Perkins Coie's motion for summary judgment and permanent injunctive relief (signed on; no part in editing).