by RG | Feb 13, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jeanine M. Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. Recently, I...
by RG | Feb 13, 2026 | above the law
Whether it’s the $11B valuation, taking law firms by storm, or making its model the go-to learning tool for top law schools, Harvey has been proving its value in all sorts of ways. Next on the list? Opening up a brick-and-mortar shop in one of America’s busiest legal...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Every trial lawyer eventually gets that case. The one with no clean story. No righteous client. No obvious villain on the other side. No theme that fits neatly on a PowerPoint slide or a jury consultant’s whiteboard. The facts are messy. The law is worse. Your client...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
“I have never heard of a situation where every single grand juror rejected an indictment,” former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote. “Every single one.” The Trump administration has made a habit of failing to secure indictments — a process so infamously easy that...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Last week, legal tech stocks in companies like Thomson Reuters and RELX (Lexis’ parent) plummeted in response to Anthropic’s release of legal plug-ins for its AI product, Claude. According to TechCrunch, the plug-ins will handle specialized tasks like document...
by RG | Feb 12, 2026 | above the law
Well, this is how progress dies in Biglaw… with governmental posturing and a whole lot of institutional cowardice. Diversity Lab announced today that it’s pausing the Mansfield certification program, the widely adopted initiative designed to encourage law firms to...
