by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
Justice Amy Coney Barrett ended the Supreme Court’s 2023 term with two dissents that complicate the usual descriptions of her jurisprudence. In Ohio v. EPA, decided on June 27, 2024, Barrett joined the Court’s three liberal justices in opposing emergency relief from a...
by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
Somewhere out there is a Signal group full of Yale Law graduates, and they are still talking about law school — or at least some of their classmates. That’s the detail that launched a thousand social media posts from Kate Andersen Brower’s new Vanity...
by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
Todd Blanche was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States earlier this week — by Emil Bove, because of course — and today he addressed the DOJ workforce with a message that can be summarized as: ignore everything you have seen with your own eyes for the last...
by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to...
by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
Every year, Chief Justice John Roberts sits down and pens a little newsletter to the nation about the big issues facing the judiciary and manages to blow it every single time. Whether he’s rambling about typewriter history or spinning Thomas Paine fan-fiction, the...
by RG | Aug 13, 2026 | above the law
If you’re starting law school this fall, you’ve probably already been told what to read. Casebooks. Maybe a primer on contracts. Something to get your head around how lawyers think before your first cold call. That advice isn’t wrong. It’s just incomplete. Because...
