by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
After long years of looking askance at remote workers, the pandemic forced law firm managers to reconsider that stance. Now, contractors (including virtual and offshore staff) are just as common in the legal environment as anywhere else in the modern economy. We...
by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
What do you do when the facts and the law aren’t on your side? Throw money at the problem! Tenured law school professor Ken Levy of Louisiana State University was suspended from teaching his students because of comments he made about state governor Jeff Landry and...
by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
If I had to rank motions I dislike the most, Rule 12, that motion to strike has got to be up there. And I would say, scandalous or impertinent matters in your pleadings are really the standard. We shouldn’t be striking a class action complaint at this stage, with no...
by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
Former Locke Lord partner, Mark Scott, was convicted in 2019 on federal conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to launder money charges. Last year, Scott was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the $400 million cryptocurrency scheme and was ordered...
by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
(Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg)Is it a sign of a healthy judiciary when the country’s largest professional association of lawyers has to formally vote on whether Supreme Court justices should follow basic ethical rules? Asking for an American in the year 2025....
by RG | Feb 4, 2025 | above the law
The post What Is OpenAI’s Powerful New Deep Research Tool Capable Of? I Use It To Analyze The Legality Of President Trump’s Pause Of Federal Grants appeared first on Above the Law.Over the weekend, OpenAI released Deep Research, an AI agent capable of completing...
