Above the Law

* Applications for law school are up 35 percent just in time for these students to compile massive loans before firms replace entry level legal jobs with AI. [ABA Journal]

* A look at John Morgan's personal injury practice empire. [Forbes]

* California bar examiners will consider participation in protests as part of character and fitness process. [California Courts Newsroom]

* After a past retreat on reform, Washington state launches another pilot program to allow some legal services to be performed by trained non-lawyers. [Reuters]

* McKinsey to pay $123 million over bribery scheme, but they hope to make that back immediately by telling more incredibly gullible people that they've invented garbage cans. [Law360]

* Firm growth opens door to new stumbling blocks, which partners will notice after they stop rolling around naked on a large pile of cash. [American Lawyer]

* The ranking of best law firm offices in the UK won't be out for a while but here's a sneak peak at what the survey is turning up. [Roll on Friday]

This Firm Has A Tradition Of Paying Above Market: $200k special bonus!

Other Firms Pay Out Bigly Too!: Here's to Morgan Lewis!

Climate Activists Come For Biglaw: A&O Shearman did a lot of work for fossil fuel companies over the last few years.

Judge Dies On Hill That Diversity And Merit Are At Odds With Each Other: Reed O'Conner, everybody.

We Do The Enforcing Here!: Gorsuch really doesn't seem to want the Court to be held accountable.