by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | Law.com
Gail Slater likely felt pressure from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi or other high-ranking DOJ officials “to do things that she didn’t feel was right and decided her reputation and honor were more important than continuing to serve in the role,”...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Every trial lawyer eventually gets that case. The one with no clean story. No righteous client. No obvious villain on the other side. No theme that fits neatly on a PowerPoint slide or a jury consultant’s whiteboard. The facts are messy. The law is worse. Your client...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
“I have never heard of a situation where every single grand juror rejected an indictment,” former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote. “Every single one.” The Trump administration has made a habit of failing to secure indictments — a process so infamously easy that...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Last week, legal tech stocks in companies like Thomson Reuters and RELX (Lexis’ parent) plummeted in response to Anthropic’s release of legal plug-ins for its AI product, Claude. According to TechCrunch, the plug-ins will handle specialized tasks like document...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Well, this is how progress dies in Biglaw… with governmental posturing and a whole lot of institutional cowardice. Diversity Lab announced today that it’s pausing the Mansfield certification program, the widely adopted initiative designed to encourage law firms to...
