The post Clio Wants To Bring AI To The Judiciary, But 50-State Survey Reveals Policies Differ In Whether They Allow It appeared first on Above the Law.As I have reported here, the legal technology company Clio is making a big push into the judiciary. It wants to...

Law school can make accomplished people feel incompetent by lunchtime. You arrive with good grades and ambition. Then someone asks you to explain a nineteenth-century opinion, challenges every answer, and moves on before you understand what happened. Your response may...

In the year of our lord 2026, a federal judge getting real frustrated at a Trump administration lawyer is practically its own genre. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Sanket Bulsara of the Eastern District of New York added the latest entry, barring Assistant U.S....

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Our associates bring firsthand insight into where AI can make a meaningful difference, and this award is designed to foster that ingenuity and help identify and scale the ideas that can create the greatest...

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. Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. Recently, I was...

(Photo by Erin Scott-Pool/Getty Images)Remember Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican Congressional representative from Georgia? Elected in 2021, she quit Congress in 2026. She had been an acolyte of 47, having drunk the Kool-Aid. However, on the theory that nothing...

New Year, New Salary: Foley & Lardner associates will see their Milbank match in February. Biglaw’s Financial Blackout Claims Its Third Victim: The Am Law 100 is starting to look a lot more like the Am Law Estimates. Genius, Justice, And Cats: A look back at Judge...

‘Who’s Next?’ Is Biglaw’s Favorite New Game, And Cahill Gordon Just Became The Frontrunner: Place your bets. Congress Doesn’t Want To See The Boat Strikes Memo, But A Federal Judge Still Does: Congress punted. The courts are still asking questions. Chuck Grassley...

The American Civil Liberties Union has a rule about impeachment: it doesn’t take sides. On Monday, it sent every member of the House a letter about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that got about as close to breaking that rule as you can without typing the words...

I open my book, “The Attorney’s Networking Handbook,” with a confession. No one I’ve ever met has wasted more time networking than I have. Over the years, I’ve attended countless networking events, joined groups, served on boards, and had more coffees, lunches, and...

On Saturday, the President of the United States announced on Truth Social that Democrats promising to investigate his administration are “SLEAZEBAGS” who “should go to jail,” adding, “I am ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act,...

One of the more competitive electoral races in California involved Proposition 40, a referendum that would impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires. Being a reliable blue state in addition to the Democratic sweep of both houses of Congress, it seemed like this...

Weil Gotshal hasn’t even finished turning off the lights, and Biglaw is already looking around the room wondering which will be the next firm to go dark. Former Above the Law editor David Lat has a candidate. In a new post on his Substack, Original Jurisdiction, Lat...

I went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak last night. His talk was about the science (or lack thereof) portrayed in a variety of Hollywood movies new and old. As Dr. Tyson discussed the 1995 Kevin Costner vehicle “Waterworld,” he asked the audience which state would...

(Image via Getty)We started the year with an interview of Khurram Naik, a former patent litigator that now owns Freshwater Counsel, one of the leading boutique recruiting agencies for IP litigators. While that business continues to generate success stories for both...

Senate Republicans have until January 3 before Democrats take over the chamber, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley is spending those weeks treating the committee’s rulebook like a list of suggestions. At Tuesday’s hearing, the committee’s first since...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I hope they’ll cooperate. If they don’t, we’ll consider using all of the tools at our disposal, including subpoenas. — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), in comments given to reporters, on what congressional...

Biglaw firms that struck pro bono payola deals with the Trump administration woke up last week to the prospect of two legislative chambers run by Democrats with a lot of questions about those deals. The same ranking members that firms have more or less blown off for...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. She said it out loud. It’s absurd. Truly embarrassing. — A source speaking to the New York Post, on Katie Zacharia’s reported effort to land a second turn as White House press secretary. The Post reports that...

The post House Opts To Stall Hegseth Impeachment Vote, Sending Resolution To Judiciary Committee appeared first on Above the Law. WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 09: U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) speaks on impeaching U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth outside the U.S....

If you took Elizabeth Holmes asking “Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that,” and poured all that energy into the Department of Justice, you’d end up with Henry Whitaker. As senior counselor to the Attorney General, Whitaker is the apparatchik...

* Nvidia brings on Wachtell to probe CEO’s affair with Chinese intelligence asset. [NY Times] * Ethics officials hit Alina Habba with charges over NDA debacle. [Washington Sun] * Judge kicks DOJ attorney off case after “deliberate attempt to mislead the court.” [Just...

It’s a match, and bonuses too! Last year, Goodwin broke from its usual January timing and announced bonuses in mid-December. This year, the firm isn’t even waiting for Thanksgiving. On Tuesday, the Top 20 Am Law firm told associates it is raising US base salaries to...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Every lawyer knows what a “white-shoe firm” is — an old-line, prestigious, tradition-bound, Wall Street firm. But the label is literal: it comes from an actual piece of footwear. What shoe gave the...

The human cost of the Trump administration’s immigration surge has been staggering, measured in detained parents, deported neighbors, and people held for months without ever seeing a bond hearing. There’s a second casualty, too: a Justice Department that no longer has...

Jack: Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me…Rose: I’ll never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go. I promise. You know what happened next in Titanic? She drops him in the fucking water. Just replace the “ticket” with “Weil job offer,” and “Jack”...

As the old saying goes, nothing in life is certain except death and taxes — and perhaps that’s why tax lawyers are able to enjoy such fulfilling careers. Tax law is typically considered one of the most sophisticated and prestigious practice areas, and law schools are...

The post Last Call: Seeking Submissions For ATL’s 17th Annual Legally Themed Halloween Costume Contest appeared first on Above the Law.Halloween is always a terrific time for members of the legal community — especially law students — who are able to celebrate the...

Pete Hegseth may not have the impeachment club to himself for long. On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, MS NOW host Rachel Maddow told Jon Stewart what the incoming Democratic House should do to show it’s moving with urgency, and Attorney General Todd Blanche made...

I saw an opinion piece recently talking about the winners on Election Day: Decency, diversity, blah, blah, blah. That’s doing things the easy way. In this space, we do things the hard way. Who were the biggest losers on Election Day? Let’s start with John Fetterman, a...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It’ll take us a couple more years to see what kind of fallout in their ability to finance their education. It’s anecdotal at this point, but you can see it coming. There’s a slice of students who don’t realize...

The post Why MCP Could Be A Hero For Your Lean Legal Team appeared first on Above the Law.Webinar:November 12th12 p.m. / 9 a.m. PTMichelle Garza, Legal Operations Manager at Generate, runs legal ops as a team of one. Like many legal ops professionals on lean in-house...

The post Simulation-Guided Clinical Trials: Is EU Law Ready? appeared first on Above the Law.Before enrolling real patients, clinical trials can be “test-flown” on a computer, running thousands of virtual versions to assess how reliable, fast, and safe the chosen...

The post Simulation-Guided Clinical Trials: Is EU Law Ready? appeared first on Above the Law.The post Simulation-Guided Clinical Trials: Is EU Law Ready? appeared first on Above the Law.

* The lateral market doomed the traditional law firm model. Weil is a sign of what’s to come. [WSJ] * Democrats should use their investigative powers to chart the flow of ill-gotten gains around the administration because pardons may keep Trump’s circle out of jail,...

Of all the intractable debates we face as a society, whether AI helps or hinders access to justice probably rates second after “is a hot dog a sandwich?” On the one hand, handing people a cheap and accessible magic answer button opens up previously unaffordable...

Todd Blanche Is So Sad Right Now: The Democrats are just being so mean to Trump and his allies. Legendary Litigator Passes Away: But not before saving the legal profession from Trump’s unconstitutional executive orders. The Verdict Is In, These Schools Are Tops For...

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! Hello (again) from DC. I’m back for a conference on college athletics governance, one of several governance and...

We have some tragic news to report out of the Washington, D.C., legal community, where celebrated litigator Dane Butswinkas, a partner and longtime member of Williams & Connolly, suddenly passed away. According to his family, he died of a pulmonary embolism while...

Criminal law in America stands at the heart of the justice system, offering law students a front-row seat to the tension between accountability and fairness. Whether aspiring to become prosecutors seeking justice for victims or defense attorneys safeguarding the...

I recently wrote about Torsten Slok’s argument that outside of big tech, AI has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America. I suggested that could be even more true in legal. And I promised more on whether and how AI really reduces hours, an argument Melissa...