by RG | Aug 17, 2026 | above the law
A barrister just earned the professional boot, and based on the findings, thinking a colleague should be committed is one of the least problematic allegations. The Independent shared a report on Mariam El-Sobky, until recently a Lincoln’s Inn barrister, who made...
by RG | Aug 17, 2026 | above the law
Mental Health Quip Ends With Mental Health Eval: After mocking a former colleague’s mental health, disciplinary authorities say disbarred lawyer needs a psych review. Sigal Chattah’s Federal Prosecutor Cosplay Doesn’t Survive Appeal Either: A unanimous Ninth Circuit...
by RG | Aug 17, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Before Abe Fortas became the only Supreme Court justice ever driven from the bench by scandal (and years after he argued the landmark right-to-counsel case Gideon v. Wainwright), he co-founded which...
by RG | Aug 17, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We would be honored to host Justice Thomas at Stanford Law School. The Stanford Constitutional Law Center, directed by professor Michael McConnell, former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...
by RG | Aug 17, 2026 | above the law
There are questions in American law that divide judges along ideological lines. Whether Sigal Chattah gets to keep playing dress-up as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada is, it turns out, not one of them. Today, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit...
