by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
It looks like there could be a new entrant into next year’s Am Law 20. That’s because McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel have announced they are in merger talks. The combined firm would be at the $2.8 billion in gross revenue mark, fitting it into...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
(Image via Getty)In the spirit of bar prep, let’s IRAC this. The California Bar had an issue: they looked at their budget and realized that they’d go bankrupt if they continued administering the bar as usual. Rules are rules, though; you’ve gotta have some way of...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
This week in rejected Black Mirror plots, we had a deceased manslaughter victim reanimated as an AI-generated video to speak at his killer’s sentencing. In a victim impact statement hitherto unprecedented because, you know, THE LAWS OF NATURE, Christopher Pelkey’s...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
One palpable concern among attendees at this year’s CLOC Global Institute is whether GenAI will take over some of the functions that legal ops professionals currently perform — or diminish the perceived value of their work. I’ve certainly heard similar concerns by...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
Hosanna! The great war with Venezuela is over. Bang those pots! Flip a car! Kiss a random stranger WITH CONSENT! Yesterday, Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York became the second judge in a week to declare that we are not in a war — declared or...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
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