For law students, technology law isn’t just about keeping up with the latest gadgets and apps anymore. Between the explosion of artificial intelligence, rapidly evolving privacy rules, cybersecurity threats, cryptocurrency, and seemingly endless questions about who...

The post Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI For Lawyers, But You’ll Have To Wait Awhile To Chat With It appeared first on Above the Law.Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett ended the Supreme Court’s 2023 term with two dissents that complicate the usual descriptions of her jurisprudence. In Ohio v. EPA, decided on June 27, 2024, Barrett joined the Court’s three liberal justices in opposing emergency relief from a...

Somewhere out there is a Signal group full of Yale Law graduates, and they are still talking about law school -- or at least some of their classmates. That's the detail that launched a thousand social media posts from Kate Andersen Brower's new Vanity Fair profile of...

Todd Blanche was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States earlier this week — by Emil Bove, because of course — and today he addressed the DOJ workforce with a message that can be summarized as: ignore everything you have seen with your own eyes for the last...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Of all the people who have served as attorney general of the United States, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, who is the only one who went on to serve time in federal prison? Hint: Before he...

Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned out to vote...

When Benito Mussolini sent his followers to march on the capital in 1922, he fully expected to be thrown in jail (or more) for his attempted coup. Instead, he was asked to become prime minister. Mussolini himself stayed in Milan, allowing him to cultivate the sort of...

Up To $170K In Bonus Bucks! This firm has already handed out three bonuses, while Biglaw associates are waiting to see if they’ll maybe get one. Purcell Unprincipled: Alabama held its first primary since the Supreme Court jettisoned the Voting Rights Act, and people...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a tele–town hall this week as part of his Senate campaign, and one caller decided to skip the small talk. “Hi Paxton, nice to meet you,” she began, sweetly. “I’m just wondering — why did you cheat on your wife?” Honestly? Same....

While much of Biglaw is still dragging its feet on associate raises, one elite litigation boutique certainly isn’t making its lawyers wait around for more money. Reid Collins & Tsai is getting ready to hand out its third round of associate bonuses in 2026, and the...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The quality of legal education is inseparable from the quality of justice in America. As legal education and the profession confront a period of rapid change, AALS believes it is essential to bring together a...

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...

(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)For many fresh law school graduates, getting a spot at the Department of Justice Honors Program was a pipe dream because of its ultra-competitiveness. But since President Donald Trump took office, many DOJ lawyers have quit,...

Let’s not insult each other: it’s highly unlikely that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier watched the Sky-Fever WNBA game this past Saturday. For all the performative concern about the sanctity of women’s sports, no one believes he sat down with a cold one to...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. They would have an unfair advantage in court — even if they were wrong on the merits. That would lead to a worse society. But now...

(image via Getty)The precursor to modern guided cruise missiles was the V-2 ballistic missile. Nazi Germany launched thousands of V-2s into Great Britain under the mistaken impression that the randomness and brutality of this new technology would break Londoners’...

If you’re going to farm out your company documents to AI, at least make sure the AI isn’t confessing to any labor law violations. Matt Bruenig flagged a weird sign-of-the-times NLRB matter out of Texas. Daniela Melendez worked for an aftermarket auto parts company...

The post Small Businesses Could Face Double-Digit Premium Hikes In 2027 appeared first on Above the Law.Small group insurers are proposing a median 14% increase in premiums for 2027, according to a recent analysis from KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare.The...

AI vendors show up at every conference with marketing material touting how they serve the vast majority of the Vault 100. And then their direct competitor makes the same claim. And so does another product that also bolted on an AI tool. We might have all become...

For the sixth year in a row, it is time for this column(ist) to share some thoughts on the release of the Lex Machina Patent Report. If any readers want to send me a half-dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to celebrate, I’ll take two each of the glazed, glazed cake, and...

Peter Navarro is quite the piece of work — here’s a man who served time in federal prison and remains genuinely convinced that the real criminal in the story was the prosecutor. He put the whole range on display Monday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room,” where the mere...

It’s been a long, quiet summer for Biglaw associate raises, with only a handful of firms matching Milbank’s new salary scale. At long last, we’ve got another match — but only for associates in New York. Ice Miller just announced a significant associate salary increase...

Ed. note: Please welcome Josh Anisfeld, chief digital strategist of Baretz+Brunelle, to the pages of Above the Law. In this new series, he and his colleagues at B+B will share their thoughts on trends they’re seeing across the legal industry. Check out the prior...

Ed. note: This article first appeared in ILTA’s Peer-to-Peer Magazine. Breaking news: business and society, including the legal industry, have generally decided AI may have some benefit that is worth leveraging. Many of us have grown markedly more comfortable with...

Biglaw Wants Private Equity’s Money — Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same ‘management services’ trick that swallowed your dog’s clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss’s door. That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22: The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a...

Biglaw Wants Private Equity’s Money — Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same ‘management services’ trick that swallowed your dog’s clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss’s door. That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22: The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a...

Before the DOJ brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Kash Patel called the civil rights organization “a partisan smear machine” and accused the entity of defaming hate groups. Because Kash Patel has never met a political...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The Constitution doesn’t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn’t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the...

You know how your parents, trying to defend what seemed at the time an unreasonable curfew, used to say nothing good happens after midnight? Turns out that’s also true of the United States Senate. At approximately 4:17 am Saturday morning, the Senate confirmed Todd...

Though the LSAT’s status as the unquestioned gatekeeper of law school admissions isn’t quite what it once was, with schools increasingly embracing alternative pathways and greater flexibility in how they evaluate applicants, the rite of passage for would-be lawyers...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Obviously I’m here for another term. — Justice Samuel Alito, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30 that Alito...

Ed. note: This article first appeared in Strategies & Voices, a publication of the Legal Marketing Association. Merc Smith recently published a thoughtful piece in Strategies & Voices titled “AEO: What Legal Marketers Need to Know, Beyond Digital Roles.” If...

Some of the richest law firms on the planet have started quietly asking whether they should sell a piece of themselves to private equity. According to the Financial Times, Paul, Weiss; Quinn Emanuel; and Proskauer have all held preliminary conversations with PE groups...

(Image via Getty)For the past two years, the legal industry has been obsessed with one question: Will AI replace lawyers? I think we’re asking the wrong question. The better question is this: If AI takes over routine legal work, what becomes more valuable? That was...

Consider President Donald Trump’s “brain trust” — the small group of people he consults before making major decisions. Even mediocre people can make good decisions if they’re surrounded by competent help. (Some would say Joe Biden, a genial mediocrity, did that.) How...

I have been marketing my business for more than two decades, and I can say without hesitation that nothing has helped build my brand quite like podcasting. Not networking groups. Not speaking alone. Not articles by themselves. The podcast has created access,...

Trump has given America so many gifts! An “American Flag Blue” reflecting pool so clear you could swim in it. A state fair packed with luminaries like Dean Cain to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial. A giant arch that would make Reich Minister Albert Speer...

Mayor Mamdani just unveiled his municipal grocery store initiative, creating five stores offering fresh meat, produce, and pantry staples at a substantial 30 percent discount. It’s part of his plan to tackle food deserts and, ideally, drive down food costs generally....