by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
A Vault 50 law firm announced deep staff layoffs — upward of 10 percent — last week. Is this a sign of things to come — a byproduct of AI pressure and a precarious economy — or a unique problem for that firm? Controversy erupted after the Trump administration swiftly...
by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
Sheldon Whitehouse is back with the BATL Act, and this time, the public is standing behind him. Whitehouse, along with Senators Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, and Alex Padilla, reintroduced the Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act today. Same...
by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
In August 2025, Nintendo announced that it would raise the prices of the Nintendo Switch 2 console due to market conditions. At the time, the Trump tariffs were in effect starting with a 24% reciprocal tariff. Later, a negotiated 15% reciprocal tariff was imposed on...
by RG | Jul 22, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to Vault’s most recent associate survey, which Biglaw firm (with a reputation for operating above the going Biglaw market rate) gets the number one spot for compensation? Hint: Interestingly,...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
John Yoo is back on his bullshit. The man best known for authoring vaguely legal-sounding memos turning the U.S. into a torture state went on Fox News yesterday to muse that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be investigated by the Trump Justice Department. Yoo...
by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
Attorneys can do a lot with new generative AI tools beyond earn sanctions for faking citations. But despite the AI industry’s curiously apocalyptic advertising claims — like Anthropic’s World Cup ad that sort of implied AI would kill us all? — the fact of the matter...
