by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
Less than two business weeks have passed since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, but in that short amount of time, the country has been thrown into legal chaos thanks to a series of executive orders that don’t exactly pass the constitutional smell test....
by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
(Photographer: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images)For years, Donald Trump was radioactive in elite legal circles. No white-shoe law firm would touch him. Todd Blanche had to quit Cadwalader when he took on Trump’s defense in 2023...
by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
If you’re in Biglaw, unless you’re representing Donald Trump or Rudy Giuliani, you generally don’t have to worry too much about getting paid. Huge corporate clients don’t run away from their legal bills. It’s a different story at a small or midsize law firm. Longtime...
by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Jabin Botsford – Pool/Getty Images)Yesterday the Trump administration attempted one of the crueler plays in the Project 2025 playbook — cutting off federal funds for all federal public loans, grants, and other assistance. This resulted in hours of chaos and...
by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)The federal funding freeze never rested on anything approaching firm legal footing, so when the administration swiftly issued a retraction before Judge McConnell of the District of Rhode Island was set to hear the matter, that...
by RG | Jan 29, 2025 | above the law
Charlie AdelsonEarlier this month, Charlie Adelson’s lawyer argued that his client should be resentenced over a counting error. After what is a very short turnaround considering how drawn out these cases have been, a judge has ruled on if the bad arithmetic should...
