by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | above the law
Email newsletters are at the core of many law firms’ digital marketing strategies. Like other businesses, especially those that market services to the general public, law firms have in many cases struggled to adjust to the ways that Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection...
by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | above the law
By now you’ve heard the broad strokes — Donald Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino, Andrew Giuliani (yes, that Giuliani’s kid, now serving as executive director of the White House Task Force for the World Cup) recruited lawyers, Commerce Secretary Howard...
by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | above the law
Donald Trump and his lawyers are still trying to drag E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit into overtime — and drag her lawyer Roberta Kaplan down with it. Last week, Judge Lewis Kaplan (no relation) granted Carroll’s motion to expedite briefing on her request to...
by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)I understand: The Supreme Court has decided Trump v. Slaughter, and independent agencies are no longer as independent as they were last week. President Trump is now empowered to fire at will employees of formerly...
by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | 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. Hello First Monday! What...
by RG | Jul 6, 2026 | above the law
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Allison Pohle raised the question: in these days and times where automated voice transcription services can create a written transcript sans humans, do we still need (or want) court reporters? As most know, traditionally, court...