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This Attorney Wouldn’t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word

This Attorney Wouldn’t Let The Supreme Court Have The Last Word

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 1879, after the Supreme Court turned her away on the reasoning that “none but men” were permitted to practice before it, which attorney lobbied Congress into passing “An Act to relieve certain legal...
AI For Criminal Defense: It’s An Issue Of Priorities. And Money.

AI For Criminal Defense: It’s An Issue Of Priorities. And Money.

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

(Image via Getty)During one of our weekly Legaltech Week journalist roundtables recently, we talked briefly about the fact that while there are lots of specialized legal tech tools and AI platforms for much of the legal market, there are precious few such tools...
S&C’s Bob Giuffra Put His Name On The Trump SCOTUS Petition He Was Going To Stay Away From

S&C’s Bob Giuffra Put His Name On The Trump SCOTUS Petition He Was Going To Stay Away From

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

Earlier this month, we reported on the Wall Street Journal’s scoop that Sullivan & Cromwell had crossed Bob Giuffra’s own self-drawn line and quietly waded into the E. Jean Carroll litigation, we now have the receipts in the most literal sense possible because...
If You Sell Legendary Virtual Pokémon For Thousands Of Dollars, There Could Be Tax Consequences In The Real World

If You Sell Legendary Virtual Pokémon For Thousands Of Dollars, There Could Be Tax Consequences In The Real World

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

(Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)Pokémon GO, the augmented reality game that allowed people to catch various Pokémon in the real world with with their mobile devices (and caused millions of people to flood the streets on its initial release), celebrated its 10th...
Data Centers In Space: An Absurd Fantasy Dumber Than Running Hundreds Of Tests On A Drop Of Blood

Data Centers In Space: An Absurd Fantasy Dumber Than Running Hundreds Of Tests On A Drop Of Blood

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

I know we all have the attention span of goldfish now, but remember Theranos, the company founded by a 19-year-old college dropout that claimed to be able to conduct hundreds of medical tests on a single drop of blood? Yeah, it couldn’t do that, because it is...
There’s An Obvious Fix For Washington’s Bar Exam Debacle

There’s An Obvious Fix For Washington’s Bar Exam Debacle

by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law

[READ MORE HERE: About bar exam horrors in Missouri and Maryland] Yesterday, Washington called off its entire July bar exam after the NextGen debut collapsed in a Yakima convention center — six hours of dead WiFi, not a single question answered, an entire...
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