by RG | Aug 3, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day! According to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), what was the employment rate and national median salary for the law school graduating class of 2024? Hint: As noted by NALP Executive...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
There’s A Survey Of The Law Schools With The Best Teachers: Does your school make the top? It might surprise you! Next, Locking Up The Homeless: Should have seen this coming after Grants Pass. Federal Judge Opens Up About Death Threats: He encouraged U.S. leadership...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
As a first-year Biglaw associate, the shop at which I worked had a generous vacation policy. They gave all attorneys four weeks of paid vacation each year, and when an employee left the firm, the shop paid up to four weeks’ worth of vacation time to the departing...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
Patrick Byrne, the Overstock.com weirdo who backed Trump’s “Stop the Steal” effort in 2020, outcrazied a federal judge in California this week, narrowly escaping a default judgment in the defamation suit brought by Hunter Biden. The litigation is a Mad Libs acid trip...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
Student loan debt is one of the worst souvenirs a law school graduate can take on as a reminder of their alma mater. Without taking six figures in loans, many hopeful lawyers wouldn’t be able to attend their dream (or fall back) schools. At the time of signing, the...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
This week, Corporate Counsel released its 2025 General Counsel Compensation Report, featuring pay for legal chiefs at Fortune 1000 companies. The tech sector dominates the upper portion of the ranking, with chief legal officers at tech companies holding 13 of the top...
