by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
Ty Cobb — the former Hogan & Lovells partner who left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to serve as special counsel in the first Trump White House, and has since made it his apparent life’s mission to say out loud what everyone else is merely thinking — was back on...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2025 — a year where large law firms really had the urge to merge and nonequity partnership ranks continued to expand — your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially… but is it among the Am Law 100’s...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
You know what they say about giving an inch. The Trump administration apparently took Judge Richard Leon’s thoughtful national-security carve-out in his preliminary injunction order — the one that let construction continue only for genuine safety measures — and...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
The post Has Legal Industry Upheaval Changed Your Career Goals? appeared first on Above the Law.As AI and other factors drive uncertainty for law firms, we’re looking to our readers to weigh in on their own career goals. Does the risk of “cognitive offloading” alter...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
Most in-house lawyers talk about AI as if it is a future event that will arrive with a contract, a vendor, and a clean implementation plan. The truth is far less organized. AI is already inside your company. It arrived through your employees’ browsers, their phones,...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, easy to circumvent, a serious threat to privacy and security, and...
