# Biglaw Surrenders Were Worse Than We Thought Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought.md Podcast: [Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228) Published: 2026-08-12T15:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/thinking-like-a-lawyer/2026/08/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LTN2432836002.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/episodes/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought Duration seconds: 1885 ## Resource Remember when Trump lost the birthright citizenship case? Because he doesn't. ----- Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn't forfeit the firm's independence, Paul Weiss reportedly seriously debated letting Stephen Miller review the firm's webpage edits according to the New York Times. The same reporting turned up the $3.5 million the firm spent to make its first openly transgender partner leave quietly. Elsewhere, Biglaw is now the largest employer of new law grads, even though it's a bigger slice of a smaller pie, with first-year hiring down for the first time since 2014. And having lost the birthright citizenship case, Donald Trump signed new executive orders explaining that he won it, moving one antecedent about six words to the left and calling it a holding. It's kicking off a string of proclamations from the White House that it's the real winner of cases it decidedly lost. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/episodes/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/above-the-law-thinking-like-a-lawyer-872228/biglaw-surrenders-were-worse-than-we-thought.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.