by RG | Apr 10, 2026 | above the law
Attorneys often need to communicate with multiple members of a client’s team in order to adequately represent a client’s interests. This can sometimes include team members who have different interests from each other, and this may inject lawyers into the office...
by RG | Apr 10, 2026 | Law.com
A jury in Cook County Circuit Court hit Abbott with $17 million in punitive damages on Friday after awarding $53 million in compensatory damages on Thursday to the parents of four premature babies who developed a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness after...
by RG | Apr 10, 2026 | Law.com
There are 300 regulated coal facilities that contain 775 coal ash surface impoundments and landfills across the country. At least 91% of those coal plants are polluting groundwater above federal safety standards, according to Earthjustice. There are 300...
by RG | Apr 10, 2026 | above the law
Vault recently released its closely watched rankings of the nation’s 100 most prestigious law firms. It was there that we learned Cravath has held onto its title as the most prestigious firm in America for more than a decade, and that the top firms saw some...
by RG | Apr 10, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If you mean bridges—convince them that they’re wrong—I dissent so much. I’m not very successful. — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a somewhat defeated response to a question from a law student at the University of...
