by RG | Jul 27, 2026 | above the law
Last year when our podcast Law and Chaos filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department, we knew things might get weird. And they did! What we didn’t expect is that we’d be making common cause with the conservative Heritage Foundation as it seeks to embarrass Joe...
by RG | Jul 27, 2026 | above the law
Guess who’s back? Back again? It’s Milbank — and this time, the firm is handing out buckets of cash for associates in the form of special bonuses! This is on top of the firm’s round of salary raises announced back in June, that the bulk of Biglaw has yet to match. It...
by RG | Jul 27, 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! The past few...
by RG | Jul 27, 2026 | LawSite
As chief technology officer at Casetext, Ryan Walker helped build CoCounsel, one of the first and most consequential generative AI legal assistants — a product so significant it led to the company’s $650 million acquisition by Thomson Reuters. But Walker came away...
by RG | Jul 27, 2026 | Law.com
In a recent case, a Chapter 11 debtor sought to employ an accounting firm under section 327(a), the principal of which was the first cousin of the owner of the debtor corporation. The U.S. Trustee objected to the retention, arguing that the debtor’s cousin was...
