by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
Rankings season is officially upon us, and this time around, even U.S. News & World Report has rolled out additional rankings on top of their influential law school rankings. Given that a legal education can land the average law school graduate in up to six...
by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
We’ve got key financial data from the top law firms and the takeaway is that it’s good to be a big firm. The Am Law 100 this year revealed that more and more firms have joined the super rich and things look bright for Biglaw. Unless someone triggers a global...
by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
It is pretty hard to get a judge off of a high-profile trial. It isn’t impossible — Young Thug managed to get Judge Glanville removed from his case — but that followed some extraordinary events. Barring something going extremely wrong, you’d be hard pressed to get a...
by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)I wonder how many times Donald Trump will say something that massively moves the stock market only to say the exact opposite thing a few days (or hours) later, spurring a massive market recovery. Perhaps traders will eventually...
by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
On the first day of President Donald Trump’s second term, then IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel resigned. IRS commissioners by law serve five-year terms although customarily they step down sometime during their fourth year. It is also common for IRS commissioners to stay...
by RG | Apr 23, 2025 | above the law
If you’ve been following the financial and legal woes of SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein, you probably assumed that legal media institution’s independence wasn’t long for this world. Earlier today, Ben Mullin of the New York Times reported that the right-wing,...