by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
It’s not exactly news to say that the collective mental health of the legal profession has been strained for years — but are things starting to get better? The results of the ALM 2025 Mental Health Survey seem to indicate that while some severe stressors remain,...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw firms who gave in to Trump suffered a scathing 60 Minutes piece and key talent defections, so they’ve decided upon a new tactic: pretending they never made a deal at all! It does not appear to be working. Meanwhile, Justice David Souter died, reminding everyone...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Across five of the most closely watched federal appellate cases of the past year, a striking pattern has emerged: courts are grappling with cutting-edge questions at the intersection of constitutional doctrine, statutory interpretation, and contemporary social and...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
There’s something fundamentally unsavory to the majority of lawyerly types about selling out the rule of law. Nine Biglaw firms struck deals with the Trump administration in order to avoid unconstitutional Executive Orders designed to hurt the bottom line of major law...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The court has obviously made mistakes throughout its history, and those should be criticized. So long as it is in terms of the decision, really, and not ad hominem against the justices. I just think that...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Every once in a while you come across a structurally ironic scenario where a person offers evidence for a claim in ways they did not intend. Take the judiciary’s image crisis, for example. You could point to several things from recent history: Amy Coney Barrett...
