by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
I recently wrote a piece bemoaning the lack of critical thinking skills among younger lawyers in the age of GenAI and wondering how the profession can hope to train lawyers to have these skills. I wondered whether the repetitive, tedious work that young lawyer...
by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
In the wake of Willkie Farr’s $100 pro bono payola deal with Donald Trump, lawyers have been fleeing the firm’s West Coast office in droves. Thus far, about 20 attorneys have decamped from the firm’s San Francisco office for Cooley. Faced with an exodus, Willkie is...
by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
Getty ImagesIn this episode of “Be That Lawyer,” I sat down with researcher and strategist Matt Dixon to explore what today’s top rainmakers are doing to earn trust, deliver value, and build long-term client loyalty. We discussed how mindsets are evolving in the legal...
by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
Sometimes, it is absolutely necessary for clients to use multiple law firms for a single matter. For instance, if a client wants their usual counsel to appear in a lawsuit in a jurisdiction where their typical counsel is not licensed to practice, they may also need to...
by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
For years we’ve talked about the serious problems of the Bayh-Dole Act, which encouraged universities to patent every damn idea that anyone associated with the university came up with in the hopes of “commercializing” it. In practice this has been a total disaster....
by RG | Aug 15, 2025 | above the law
While this is not the first time in legal history that bar takers received failing grades and swore that they passed that damn thing, we have to be within the top five moments of that happening. After hundreds of California February bar exam takers were told that they...
