by RG | Aug 27, 2026 | above the law
If you are old enough to remember the movie Risky Business, you probably remember the famous scene where Tom Cruise slides smoothly across a wooden floor in his socks while Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” blasts in the background. Now imagine that same scene,...
by RG | Aug 27, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who are the only grandfather-grandson pair ever to serve on the Supreme Court with a shared named borrowed from a legendary early justice? Hint: The elder became famous as a lone voice of conscience;...
by RG | Aug 27, 2026 | above the law
He Survived A ‘Widow-Maker’ At The Office. Then, He Says, His Firm Went To Work On Him: A new lawsuit accuses Troutman Pepper Locke of moving the partnership goalposts after an associate’s heart attack — and of a billing scheme he was told to keep quiet. Biglaw’s...
by RG | Aug 27, 2026 | Law.com
At a Thursday teleconference, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing 6,600 paraquat cases in the multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of Illinois, said she had “serious concerns that all of DiCello Levitt’s clients had opted out...
by RG | Aug 27, 2026 | Law.com
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s interim or emergency docket has drawn outsized attention in the last decade, bids for stays pending appeal and other emergency relief requests make up a large share of work at the federal appeals courts too—albeit marked by far...
