by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
Try as it might, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith can’t seem to keep its name out of headlines that cast the firm in a negative light. In recent years, the firm suffered a defection en masse, when more than 100 attorneys left to join a (now defunct) boutique firm....
by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
For the last couple years, legal tech shows mostly involve vendors explaining how they’ve “slapped some AI on” their products and vaguely promising that some future iteration of AI will arrive to assist every step of the attorney workflow. But great leaps in...
by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a Skadden associate, disgusted at the way their firm groveled to Donald Trump — offering $100 million in pro bono payola to right-wing causes — publicly quits the firm. Familiar? Yeah, well, it’s happened again. A tipster at...
by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. Another week and another data breach hit the press with thousands...
by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
University of Michigan Law School (via Getty)It didn’t take long after SFFA v. Harvard before the right set aim to widen what the holding makes unconstitutional. There have been several feints against law reviews with shady standing issues, like when Stephen Miller...
by RG | Apr 1, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Some of the New York firms are literally and figuratively more transactional, and some of the other firms are more interested in taking a risk to preserve the rule of law—to...