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...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Buried in the setup instructions of Anthropic’s claude-for-legal repository is the most important line about Claude’s threat (or OpenAI’s for that matter) to take over the legal industry: “Connect a research tool first.” Everything else in the suite — 12 practice-area...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
Moot court may not get the same attention as law review, but for students who actually want to litigate, it’s one of the closest things to the real job that they’ll experience in law school. It forces students to think on their feet, respond to relentless questioning,...
by RG | Aug 3, 2026 | above the law
For years, legal departments hired for expertise. They still do, of course. But expertise is no longer the differentiator it once was. Today, AI can summarize a contract in seconds. It can draft a clause, compare agreements, identify missing provisions, and even...
