by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Complicit is a fun word. It comes from the Latin word complicare, which means to fold together. Trump’s presidential runs have been folded together with the Confederacy in some pretty obvious ways that folks, for the sake of staying in good social graces, have done...
by RG | Mar 30, 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. Hi from Denver, where I am...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Stay on the streets of this town And they’ll be carvin’ you up, alright They say you gotta stay hungry “Dancing in the Dark,” Bruce Springsteen, 1984 Years ago, our team was invited to take part in a “beauty contest” for a major, national piece of “bet the company”...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
I was chatting with a guy at a wedding recently who told me that Donald Trump was the best president in American history. You have to be careful these days. Was he pulling my leg? Was he serious? I explored: “What do you have in mind?” “Trump moved the U.S. embassy in...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Legal AI is often evaluated by scale. Bigger models. More data. Longer lists of capabilities. Demos emphasize volume: how many questions a system can answer, how many issues it can spot, how fast it can respond. That framing misses the real constraint. The problem...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Capital One General Counsel Matthew Cooper’s compensation package went up a stunning 93% last year in recognition for closing the acquisition of which rival credit card company? Hint: Cooper’s payday...
