by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | above the law
New York City’s Law Department is about to get a serious (and overdue) reboot. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced last week that Steven Banks will take the helm as Corporation Counsel, pairing the appointment with an ambitious plan to expand the department...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)If there’s one figure in American history who would not stand for any of the present nonsense, it’d be Thomas Paine. The revolutionary pamphleteer hated the idea of monarchs trampling on people behind the veil of absolute immunity so...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I suspect that we have already seen most of the direct effects that we are going to see in terms of departures and client responses. I don’t think the deals will have a big impact on recruiting in 2026. The...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | above the law
What happens when a judge relies on a GenAI tool in formulating their decision on a key issue, particularly one that could impact the GenAI providers? It’s not only law firms and legal departments that are adopting GenAI systems without fully understanding what they...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | above the law
For all our talk about modernizing legal operations, we still treat some of the most essential systems in our profession as afterthoughts. Take depositions. Most in-house lawyers will tell you they are critical in litigation. Yet we accept inefficiency, latency, and...
