by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
By the time this is published, the July bar exam will be history. Remember my admonition to not discuss your answers with anyone, including your besties. It’s too late to do anything now, not that you could, so just don’t. Take a break from perseverating. But is it...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
The Trump administration has it out for the ABA. They’ve been taken off the job of vetting judiciary nominees and seen federal dollars for projects they worked on dry up — ultimately leading to layoffs at the organization. Now Florida is trying to strip the ABA of its...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “Trump appellate court nominee defends comments on ‘gender roles’”: Nate...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
We’ve finally got a Stalin to call our own. Just like Soviet Russia, homelessness is now basically a criminal offense, thanks to Trump’s latest executive order, which pretends it’s about crime but actually just wants to put homelessness people in places where other...
by RG | Aug 1, 2025 | above the law
* Kavanaugh tells judges that the Supreme Court can’t explain shadow docket opinions because it might suggest to lower courts that the Court has made a decision about the legal merits. This is a week after the Court explicitly told lower court judges to use shadow...
by RG | Jul 31, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We really have had no departures that were related to the merger. Any departures either firm has seen are just normal attrition in [Biglaw]. Recruiters use that as an opportunity to shake people loose, which is...
