by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I take boxing lessons. And I think that helps you to really get out any frustrations. — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in comments noted by the ABA Journal, concerning how the Supreme Court’s most junior...
by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
Pete Hegseth is not particularly qualified to be the Secretary of Defense. The former cable TV host is best known for domestic abuse allegations and alcohol use, but he’s loyal to MAGA and so, he got the nod to lead our nation’s military. He’s taken Donald Trump’s war...
by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
Paul, Weiss shocked the world of Biglaw in March when they became the first — though not the last — firm to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from under an onerous Executive Order designed to extract a financial penalty for being affiliated with cases and causes...
by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
While practicing lawyers embrace generative AI as a quicker and more efficient avenue to sanctions, law professors have mostly avoided AI headlines. This isn’t necessarily surprising. Lawyers only get into trouble with AI when they’re lazy. It becomes a problem when...
by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
We’ve known for years that Donald Trump despises liberal judges. Back in his first term, Trump categorized judges who ruled against him as “haters” or “so-called judges.” When Judge Arthur Engoron ruled against Trump in Letitia James’s civil fraud against him,...
by RG | Jun 9, 2025 | above the law
In my experience, few moments feel as disorienting as receiving a hefty law firm invoice that reads like a puzzle and realizing no one’s available to explain it. That’s not luxury, that’s just expensive confusion. If that sounds familiar, you’ll want to hear more from...
