by RG | Oct 25, 2026 | above the law
Forwarding Fail: Freshfields global managing partner accidentally forwarded a thread about spinning off the firm’s AI unit. AI keeps exposing cyber vulnerabilities… even when they’re between the keyboard and the chair. Weil They Ever Find Someone?: About a month after...
by RG | Oct 23, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the largely self-taught California trial lawyer, admitted to the bar in 1911, who defended poor immigrants with a flair for courtroom theater — then spun his legal know-how into fiction,...
by RG | Oct 23, 2026 | above the law
Weil You Look At That!: Weil and Willkie flirted with a merger, but it’s not to be. Footnotes And Footballs: Law student joins law review… and football team. Long Live The Billable Hour: AI isn’t reducing the time lawyers are working. Ranking Your Dans: Trump...
by RG | Oct 23, 2026 | above the law
Last night, the Justice Department bigfooted into the Alaska Senate race and demanded that a federal judge block certification of the election — but only if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. If you guessed that this embarrassing abuse of judicial process was signed by...
by RG | Oct 23, 2026 | above the law
I don’t know who’s gonna be your next president, and I think the law says I’m not allowed to run again. I studied that phrase forever. One thing is different. They cheated us on the second one. And we won three times. I think I have the right to run again because they...
by RG | Oct 23, 2026 | above the law
It really seemed like we had the billable hour on the ropes. You didn’t need to buy the most extreme threads of artificial intelligence hype to think the technology would at least take a modest bite out of hourly work and leave attorneys either agreeing to accept less...
