by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | 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. Join me LIVE this week at...
by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | above the law
RelativityFest kicked off last week with a song and dance number — well, a keynote followed by a song and dance number, anyway — welcoming some 1,834 attendees to Chicago’s Hyatt Regency. As with most user conferences, the opening keynote offered a platform to rile up...
by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | above the law
Last week, Lindsey Halligan, the acting/interim/special/imaginary US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, fulfilling a long-held goal of her client, Donald Trump. James is charged with two...
by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | above the law
Dear Colleagues, We at University Administration are now prepared to issue our Academic Freedom guidelines for your classes. As you know from last year’s memo, we in administration are strong advocates of free speech on campus. With some guidance from us, we believe...
by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | above the law
When Tara Trantham talks about the cost of delay, she is not speaking in hypotheticals. As the chief legal officer of a billion-dollar publicly traded company, she faced simultaneous investigations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of...
by RG | Oct 14, 2025 | above the law
This tale of attorney discipline is one part tech failure and one part petty misogyny, and none of it is a good look. A Michigan appeals court upheld the criminal contempt finding against attorney Marshall Tauber, decision available below, for comments he made at the...
