by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Late Sunday night, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted a signed order to X rescinding the Anti-Weaponization Fund. The death of the Trump slush fund, that is, the fund personally created by Blanche earlier this year as part of a deal to drop Trump’s $10...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There were absolutely no test-takers at the July 2026 Washington bar exam that were not impacted. Emergency diploma privilege is the only remedy for all impacted. Some test-takers have voluntarily shared their...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Better AI will not solve the hallucination problem. Today’s AI models are less prone to hallucinate than earlier models, and today’s well-known legal providers’ “grounding” of their AI responses has definitely cut down on obvious hallucinations. Don’t make the mistake...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
We’ve spent well over a year now documenting Paul, Weiss’s descent from Biglaw’s self-appointed conscience to its most instructive cautionary tale — the craven deal with Trump, the litigation talent that bolted in response, the Epstein emails that ended Brad Karp’s...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! Today marks...
