by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! Last week I...
by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
Legal AI is often sold as a training accelerator. Give junior lawyers faster answers, cleaner summaries, and clearer issue spotting, and they will ramp more quickly. That theory is tidy. It is also wrong. In practice, many legal AI tools are quietly eroding the very...
by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
Founder-led law firms that stand the test of time must eventually negotiate the transition from personality cult with letterhead. Not all of them make it. It’s usually not for lack of trying, but it’s just that it’s hard to chart a path into the future when the...
by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
Last week, the ballroom plaintiffs suggested that a federal judge should consider Rule 11 sanctions for the top three lawyers at the Trump Justice Department. After publicly demanding that the National Trust for Historic Preservation withdraw its opposition to Trump’s...
by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
Few things capture the current state of constitutional discourse quite like Matt Damon’s Saturday Night Live imagining of Brett Kavanaugh, drunk after ordering a “6-3 decision” (i.e., six Bud Lights and three shots of Jamo), solemnly explaining that Donald Trump can...
by RG | May 11, 2026 | above the law
It’s an understatement at this point to say that AI will reshape everything in legal, including and perhaps especially, the discipline known as legal operations (legal ops for short). It’s the how that’s the question. The upcoming preeminent legal ops conference will...
