by RG | Nov 17, 2025 | above the law
Where do you go once you successfully infiltrate the T14? Wherever you want to! After establishing themselves as the go-to AI program for law school classrooms, Harvey is setting up shop in law schools around the UK. Based on their placement, they’re off to a very...
by RG | Nov 17, 2025 | 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. Hello from San Francisco....
by RG | Nov 17, 2025 | above the law
(Photo via Getty Images)Fifteen years ago this week, David Lat, who then ran Above the Law, asked me, a veteran big-firm partner who had recently gone in-house, if I’d write a column for this online publication. I agreed. This link to my first column shows how I...
by RG | Nov 17, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I continue to believe that firms requesting four days in-office aren’t really expecting it or are likely to achieve it. But it’s the hope that, ‘The more days we ask for, the more days they’re likely to show...
by RG | Nov 16, 2025 | above the law
Racist Rant Costs Biglaw Recruiting Director Their Job: Hard to sell diversity when you’re caught on video proving why it’s needed. From Dominatrix To Defamation: A Lawsuit Odyssey: Biglaw’s latest scandal reads like a rejected Netflix pilot that still somehow got...
by RG | Nov 14, 2025 | above the law
Last week, a lawyer attending the New York Bar Foundation gala spoke up to heckle Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp over the firm’s deal with the Trump administration. Afterward, a prominent authority on the business of law mused to me that we don’t level enough blame on the...