by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
If You Fail Once, Try Failing A Second Time: Good luck getting a local statute to bind the federal judiciary! Trump Admitted To Taking The Right To Free Speech Away: Hard to get more anti-American than that. Is Your Firm Outsourcing Recruitment To Law Students?: This...
by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “Hantz Marconi to return to the bench, capping whirlwind week for...
by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
The DOJ got benchslapped again last night by federal Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui. The beatdown came in the case of Kevontae Stewart, a DC resident who was sitting in his car on September 17, smoking a joint and bothering no one, when ATF agents started hassling him....
by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
In the span of the last year, Aubrey “Drake” Graham has been dunked on more than anyone who has had the misfortune of playing against Dwight Howard. His musical feud against Kendrick Lamar started to get rough once the Compton rapper dropped “Euphoria,” a prophetic...
by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
A recent legal tech funding announcement got my attention. EvenUp, which provides several AI tools for personal injury (PI) plaintiffs’ lawyers, announced it had raised $150 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and REV, among others. REV is the venture...
by RG | Oct 10, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw’s recruitment of law students is well and truly broken. That’s not a shock — in 2018, when NALP announced it was eliminating the recruitment guardrails, the race to the bottom was on. Seven years later, it’s awful out there. Major law firms are peace-ing out of...
