by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
The biggest story in legal last week was an unfortunate guerrilla antagonizing of a couple making out on a park bench… who just happened to be a Wachtell partner and associate. And now an internal HR problem is suddenly national news. Say what you will about the...
by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
[READ MORE HERE: About bar exam horrors in Washington and Maryland] The most credulous voices in legal spent the last year dunking all over California’s haphazard effort to administer its own bar exam. California’s initiative admittedly moved too fast — a byproduct of...
by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
* Federal judges call out government attorneys for the 3 “U”s: “unlawful,” “unethical” and “unseemly” conduct. [Pro Publica] * Gibson Dunn snags big litigation team from Wachtell. [NY Times] * Judge orders immigration authorities to release man they’d kept under lock...
by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
Are you guys sitting down? Because it’s possible — possible — that Donald Trump might be full of shit. I know, I know. But hear me out. After losing his challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship on a 5-4 or 6-3 (or maybe 7-2?)...
by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I know she loves this country. She knows I love this country. We know we’re coming at it from the right place internally. — Justice Neil Gorsuch, in comments given during an appearance at the Reagan Civility...
by RG | Jul 29, 2026 | above the law
For three years straight, I have written on these pages about patent-related issues involving the defining drugs of our lifetimes, GLP-1’s. Let’s go for the fourth year in a row. In 2023, I focused on recently granted patents that the two behemoths in the weight-loss...