by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The trend is clearly: firms are becoming much more careful [about expanding in their equity tier.] — Blane Prescott, a law firm consultant on compensation issues and managing shareholder at MesaFive, in...
by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice waved the white flag in the Biglaw executive order cases, filing a voluntary dismissal request, seeking to quietly slink away from Donald Trump’s constitutionally suspect vendetta against major law firms. It was, by any...
by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
Another day, another fictitious case citation. Blink, and you’ll miss the most recent comedy of AI-created errors.Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, the frequency of court submissions riddled with AI-hallucinated gibberish has increased exponentially. Now,...
by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
Where do legal teams still have meaningful leverage in rate negotiations? Even where legal teams negotiate aggressively and achieve apparent “wins,” net year-over-year increases frequently remain in the high single to double digits, according to proprietary Persuit...
by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
With just over 100 days until kickoff, U.S. host cities for the 2026 World Cup went to Capitol Hill with a warning — not a progress report. Before the House Homeland Security Committee, local officials described frozen FEMA funds, coordination gaps, and mounting...
by RG | Mar 3, 2026 | above the law
In The Hunt for Red October, we learn that Soviet submarine carried a “political officer,” a Communist Party appointee whose job wasn’t navigating or torpedoing things, but making sure everyone on board remained sufficiently loyal to the regime. Not to spoil a...
