by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | legal matters
On November 3, April Bogard Pinder joined Raleigh-based Cranfill Sumner LLP as the firm’s first chief executive officer. Cranfill is the first law firm in the Southeastern United States to appoint a CEO outside of its partnership. Pinder joined Cranfill from U.S. Bank...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” So said Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko in the hit 1987 movie “Wall Street.” The film (a December release) deftly articulated the materialistic ethos rampant in the financial world of the rough-and-tumble 1980s....
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
While Christmas is often associated with exchanging gifts and enjoying a day off, it also commemorates the birth of Jesus — a carpenter who shifted careers to preach, teach, and perform miracles. Not all of Jesus’s actions won universal praise, however. He stirred...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw firms across the country continue to announce bonuses this holiday season. Just before Christmas, one of the most successful law firms in America let eligible associates know that they’d be receiving a match of the Cravath/Milbank scale for year-end and special...
