by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [The Trump administration] seems to have a little bit of an ax to grind with [Biglaw]. For us, it’s been trying to stay clear of the kinds of events that have triggered some of the actions, because I don’t...
by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
Harvard isn’t the only school worried that the Trump administration will screw over their funding. Public schools get their fair share of funding from the government too — at least they should. On Monday, several states filed suit to challenge the Trump...
by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
Big changes rarely happen quickly at Biglaw firms. Even before the rank-and-file associates catch wind of anything, there’s usually much discussion and analysis going on at the management level. So when the world’s richest law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, made a change...
by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
We have more tragic news to report from Texas, where a young associate from a midsize firm recently passed away as a victim of the deadly flash flooding that hit the state. Josephine Hardin, a 2023 graduate of Emory Law, was a third-year associate with Atlanta-based...
by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
The Supreme Court is perfectly willing to let the Trump administration break the law, but trial judges are not. And so on Friday, yet another federal district court judge issued an injunction attempting to rein in ICE’s goon squads. In a case captioned Perdomo v....
by RG | Jul 14, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)As regular readers of this column know, I’m no fan of Donald Trump’s. But even a stopped clock is accurate twice a day. Can we admit that Trump has achieved at least a couple of worthwhile things? First: The border. For...
