by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The salary increase for associates isn’t because the price of eggs or gas has gone up. Partners are saying to themselves, ‘We’re doing really well—and we should pass some of that along to the people who are...
by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
Yesterday, a fascinating thread by Jen Horsburgh described her recent experience using AI to update her resume. After asking Google’s Gemini to clean up her resume, she ran it again under her a man’s name, and watched the model mechanically rewrite the same career...
by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
The World Cup is currently underway in three countries in North America: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. This is only the second multicountry World Cup since 2002, when Japan and South Korea co-hosted. The matches will be held in 16 cities throughout the three...
by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
Above the Law’s Top 50 Law School rankings are out and a new school tops the list. But a number of other high prestige law schools have slipped out of the top 10… and it’s mostly a matter of cost. Meanwhile, we have two federal judges out of control. Judge Ryan Nelson...
by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
The freakiest thing about Sean Combs’s sentencing is that his projected time in prison keeps going down. At one point there was speculation that he’d be spending the rest of his life behind bars. His high-profile legal team managed to get that time down to about a...
by RG | Jun 17, 2026 | above the law
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. — Amara’s Law Lots of predictions and prognostications are going around these days about how AI will impact legal. But if our experience with, of all...
