by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
Working In-House?: Take our law department compensation survey. Working At A Firm?: If you haven’t shared your bonus news with us yet, there’s no time like the present. Remember to hit us up at tips@abovethelaw.com. We reported on one major firm’s bonuses just today....
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” So said Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko in the hit 1987 movie “Wall Street.” The film (a December release) deftly articulated the materialistic ethos rampant in the financial world of the rough-and-tumble 1980s....
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
While Christmas is often associated with exchanging gifts and enjoying a day off, it also commemorates the birth of Jesus — a carpenter who shifted careers to preach, teach, and perform miracles. Not all of Jesus’s actions won universal praise, however. He stirred...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw firms across the country continue to announce bonuses this holiday season. Just before Christmas, one of the most successful law firms in America let eligible associates know that they’d be receiving a match of the Cravath/Milbank scale for year-end and special...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
We’re updating our compensation information for in-house law departments, and there’s still time to provide your input. If you work in-house as an attorney or a legal operations professional, please take our brief survey and tell us about your compensation. The...
