by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, long viewed as a stalwart of Wall Street law firms, now seems to be scrambling to steady its ship. Already battling turbulence, the firm just shook the table again — this time, by naming a new co-managing partner in the midst of mass...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
When I first heard Tyler Quillin, principal corporate counsel at Microsoft, say that he asks engineers to “explain it to me like I’m an eighth grader,” I had to laugh. Not because it was funny, although the image of an Xbox hardware engineer breaking down technical...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. These are not ordinary times. The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is the latest—and most troubling—action by a Justice Department increasingly wielded as the personal instrument of the President...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
You can’t overstate the importance of the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. Despite the weak protests of the Vice President, the move smacks of bald faced political retribution on evidence so flimsy Erik Siebert, the career prosecutor — appointed by...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
It’s like there’s a worm in my brain, eating away at my sanity. (Image via Getty)For most of the 20 years that I worked at a law firm, I defended pharmaceutical and medical device (and other) mass torts. The things that you do professionally can create a bias: I did...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
The Lone Star State is tired of the ABA dunking on their low bar passage rates and wants their Supreme Court to be the final arbiter of who gets to be a lawyer. Kind of the thing you’d expect from a state with a history of independence and secession efforts. Reuters...
