by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
Albany Law student Dawson Maloney is dead, following an apparent terror attack on a substation in the Hoover Dam power generation system. Maloney, a 2L, rented a car in New York, embarking on Valentine’s Day for a cross-country trip to Boulder City, Nevada. Armed with...
by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
If you were worried that Judge Aileen Cannon might someday surprise everyone by rediscovering the concept of judicial independence, congratulations, today is not that day. In a move that will shock exactly no one who has watched Cannon’s extremely online career arc,...
by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
No cheers for Chief Justice Roberts! After Friday’s tariff ruling, the usual suspects chimed in to glaze the three conservatives who ruled that Trump can’t impose a constantly shifting tariff regime based on whichever country he’s trying to stick up on a given day....
by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If they use AI to justify it, they won’t look as cruel when they make that many staff cuts. — Scott Love, president of legal industry recruiter The Attorney Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law...
by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
The ABA has been trying to slow Standard 206’s bleeding since the Court handed down SFFA v. Harvard. In short, the standard held that law schools had to take concrete actions showing a commitment to diversity by providing full opportunities to study the law and enter...
by RG | Feb 23, 2026 | above the law
If you listened to deal teams in 2025, you’d hear a familiar refrain: contracts are slowing everything down. Too much governance. Too many controls. Too much legal caution layered onto deals that just need to close. That story feels right. It’s also wrong. What...
