by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
We have some truly tragic news to report out of California, where a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. attorney has passed away. Andrew Haden, 48, was found dead last week inside a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in...
by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
For years, legal departments drew a circle around what they did and what they outsourced to law firms. What remained inside the circle? A relatively small fraction of the in-house team’s total workload. Now the in-house circle is expanding, catalyzed by AI driving an...
by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
Attorney General Todd Blanche has been in the big chair for all of two weeks, and his Justice Department is already back on its bullshit. This time the target is a familiar one: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the government deported to El Salvador by mistake,...
by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
For the past year, the technology hype cycle belongs to “agentic” AI. Is it different than the AI chatbots that dominated the previous few years? It depends on how you look at it. The agentic pitch is that users can outsource more of mental drudgery to the AI because...
by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
The 46th annual ILTACON is officially underway! During the past several decades, it has grown from a few lawyers in a meeting room to a major event. As ILTA CEO Joy Heath Rush recently joked in an ATL interview, the organization may need to build new hotel rooms to...
by RG | Aug 24, 2026 | above the law
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say their client can’t be tried for murder now that he’s pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges. At issue is a voluntary admission that his stalking led to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which is not an element of...
