by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
At this point, the Department of Justice’s staffing crisis has its own expanding series of soap opera subplots. There were the emergency jump teams, rotating AUSAs in from all 93 US Attorney’s offices to plug holes wherever the latest self-inflicted crisis erupted....
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
(Image via Getty)Eleanor Ross shouldn’t be a federal judge. She exhibited disturbingly poor judgment, lied about it, and blamed her law clerk when she got caught. That’s not someone who should make life-and-death decisions about litigants’ lives, livelihoods, and...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The [threat] statistics sound abstract but being on the receiving end of them is not, so I thought I would just share a little bit about how the threats have affected me and my family personally. They have...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
When lawyers imagine an AI-first law firm — and this goes for the media writing about AI-first law firms as well — they tend to spin a narrative in their head about a clever lawyer automating the boring parts, shedding associates, and pocketing the spread. For better...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Isabelle Ouvrard/SEPA.Media /Getty Images)As we approach the final three games of the World Cup, it is as good a time as any to reflect on some of the things we have learned from the past month or so, when it seems like the world has come to visit the United...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
Most lawyers are trained to avoid uncertainty. Then there are lawyers like Geoffrey Brow, who spent years helping companies build technologies so new that there was no legal playbook to follow, no precedent to cite, and sometimes no regulator who fully understood what...
