by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
No one is coming to save you. No one other than you is responsible for your career. Not your supervisor. Not the managing partner. Not your firm. What you make of yourself is entirely in your hands. The decisions you make. The effort you put forth. The money you...
by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
Like many of you, I sort of wondered about the new name for AffiniPay’s set of companies, 8am, as I discussed in a previous post. Are they offering a new coffee? Some sort of clock? I appeared on a Michael Eisenberg’s Tech Savvy Lawyer podcast earlier this week and...
by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
The ongoing lesson with these Trump institutional strong-arms seems to be that if you can survive the initial pressure, you’ll get everything you were pushing for. So much for “Art of the Deal”! The Trump administration has pulled no punches in their fight with...
by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
For lawyers, the Trump II era has been defined by the existential crisis facing the profession. Donald Trump has gone to war with the rule of law and Biglaw through a series of unconstitutional Executive Orders (or the mere threat of them) designed to break major law...
by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
My wife and I have become increasingly skeptical about television. I’m guessing you have too. We’re all on the same endless search for something, anything, worth watching. It’s not just that so much of what’s out there is junk. It’s also that, once we figure out a...
by RG | Sep 4, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I’m hearing much more from people who want to protect the environment. They want to protect civil liberties. They want to protect immigrants’ rights. Students who want to fight back are saying, ‘Law school is...
