DISCO’s 2026 Legal AI Report opens by announcing that this “may be the year the legal tech dam finally burst.” Compared to the legal industry’s baseline, that makes some sense, with simple adoption taking a huge leap this year. Despite the gushing imagery though, the...

When personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee’s client, Jane Doe, dropped her sexual assault lawsuit against Jay-Z last year, the allegation didn’t simply disappear. Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, kept fighting the lawyer who brought the case. Now, in a stunning...

Donald Trump has made several predictions during the past 10 years. In February 2020, Trump predicted that COVID would go away — “like a miracle” — very quickly. Mm-hmm. In fact, the country would be “opened up” by Easter 2020. Mm-hmm. He predicted that the war in...

Donald Trump has found a new way to spend your money on himself. This weekend, the White House rolled out its latest government-paid “public service announcement,” and this one doesn’t bother pretending to be something other than a campaign ad, because, well, it is...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You go from essentially a monk-like existence where you’re in your chambers — unless you’re in court — you’ve got your three law clerks, or your family. And here, gosh, I’ve already traveled to probably four or...

I attended the 8am Kaleidoscope conference this past week. And like most legal tech conferences, much of the talk was about AI. AI and lawyers. AI and law firms. AI and your future. But perhaps recognizing there is only so much AI we humans can absorb before it leaks...

Peter Feist, the head of Cravath’s private equity practice, is going back to Weil, where he spent nearly 20 years before leaving for Cravath in 2023. He’ll be US co-head of private equity. This lateral merry-go-round is getting dizzying. Three weeks ago, corporate...

On Friday night, the Supreme Court finally put an end to Missouri Republicans’ quest to steal a congressional district for the 2026 midterms. “The District Court and Court of Appeals should not enjoin or otherwise prohibit the use of the 2022 map in the 2026...

Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Happy Monday! There are so many wonderful things about being a faculty member at the University of Houston Law Center, and last...

The post When AI Gets Medicine Wrong, Who’s Liable? appeared first on Above the Law.As AI in healthcare moves from simple documentation and administrative tasks into high-level clinical decision making, leaders and clinicians must determine how much human oversight is...

* Clients want Biglaw to start handing out AI discounts, managing to display ignorance of how both AI and lawyers operate. [NY Times] * Chicago federal prosecutor’s retirement letter lays into Trump administration boss for setting her up with botched prosecution. [ABC...

Nothing To Fear But Quinn Itself: BTI’s annual survey of the firms clients least want to see across the “v.” is out, and Quinn Emanuel, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, and Gibson Dunn are once again the Fearsome Foursome. Weird how two of those firms were too chicken...

That Only Two Two Months: The first Milbank special bonus match has finally arrived! Laurence Tribe Says Trump Wants To Be ‘Not Just King Trump, But Emperor Trump’: Even Versailles had limits. It’s 10pm. Do You Know Where Your Junior Associates Are? Still at the...

Schema markup is an easily overlooked part of your law firm website, in large part because, if you are viewing the website via web browser, you will never actually see it. Search engines, however, rely on the information this type of markup provides to recognize the...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! With the nearest real courthouse a punishing 200 miles away, which West Texas saloonkeeper (portrayed in 1972 by Paul Newman), with no legal training and exactly one law book to his name, got himself...

The attractions of Biglaw are obvious: the big-name clients, the big deals, and the very big paychecks. And every year, Legal Cheek reminds us what those paychecks cost. The UK legal news site just released the working-hours data from its 2026-27 Trainee and Junior...

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada...

Early Thursday morning, a federal judge ordered the White House to give CNN, MS NOW, and Politico back their access. By Thursday night, CNN was on air explaining that it had been turned away from the state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chinese state media...

We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for a firm to match Milbank’s special bonuses since they were first announced on July 27. Here we are at the end of September, and we’ve finally got our first taker. It’s Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a firm famous...

Historian Rachel Shelden, author of The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, joins me to unpack how deeply political the Supreme Court actually was for its first century, why the Court’s modern claim to be apolitical is a relatively recent invention, and why...

For much of the history of the legal profession, clients visiting their lawyers’ offices was simply part of practicing law. Clients would come in for meetings, sit in conference rooms, review documents, and discuss their matters face-to-face with counsel. Law firms...

Sheri Mecklenberg is back, baby! She wants in on the “Broadview 6” case which imploded in May after her gross misconduct before the grand jury was revealed. She is also outta here, dropping an epic resignation letter that is almost certainly a precursor to litigation...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Why is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the court’s attention? — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,...

Most solo and small firm litigators walk into a hearing having only argued their case with themselves. No moot, no devil’s advocate, no one in the room willing to say, “That’s your weakest point, here’s why.”  In a bigger firm, that’s a colleague down the hall. In a...

The post At Its User Conference In Las Vegas, 8am Announces MCP Integration And New AI Tools For MyCase, Plus New Law Firm Funding Program Through LawPay appeared first on Above the Law.At its second-annual Kaleidoscope customer conference in Las Vegas today, 8am...

Another day, another law firm data breach. Just days after Greenberg Traurig was hit with proposed class actions over its own cybersecurity incident, Seyfarth Shaw has disclosed that a “targeted social engineering attack” exposed client documents containing personal...

We read for a living. Somewhere along the way, some of us stopped reading for ourselves. We read motions, contracts, emails, and whatever someone sends us five minutes before a call. We spend hours reading because someone needs an answer. Then we get home, look at the...

Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jeanine M. Donahue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. There are...

8am’s second Kaleidoscope vendor conference kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Las Vegas. There are worse places to contemplate the dangers of success. 8am (formerly AffiniPay) brings together several legal technology platforms, including the practice management...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You are not Atticus Finch. [Y]ou have to accept that you are in the business of sales. — Ivan Gaviria, a corporate partner at Gunderson Dettmer, in remarks delivered during a business-development boot camp for...

In-house lawyers hear it all the time. Be a business partner. Sit at the table. Understand the business and add value beyond assessing the legal risk.  There is no question we should. The best in-house lawyers do all of those things. There is a tension baked into that...

Getty ImagesIn a recent conversation with Randi Cohen, labor and employment litigator at Kalmanson Cohen PLLC, I explored how a lawyer with nearly two decades of experience built a seven-figure practice without ever really thinking of herself as someone who networks....

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day. According to Bloomberg Law’s 2026 Attorney Well-Being Survey, what percentage of women lawyers who are also caregivers say they’re often exhausted by the combination of work and caregiving? Hint: If...

The Fearsome Foursome: Which law firms strike fear into the hearts of opposing counsel? Another Day, Another Law Firm Hacked: The human element is getting to be a problem here. Start Reading Again: Not for work, but for your own enjoyment. 8am’s Kaleidoscope...