by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me ‘Please tell me you’re not using AI.’ And now they’re saying to me ‘Please tell me you are using AI.’ — Stacy Ackermann, global managing partner of...
by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
The New York Times dropped a bombshell on Saturday. Reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak obtained 16 pages of leaked internal memos from six Supreme Court justices, showing — in their own words, (mostly) on their own letterhead — exactly how Chief Justice John...
by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
The complaint is finally here, and it’s more or less exactly as loony as we expected. FBI Director Kashyap Patel has filed a $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick over the April 17 article alleging excessive drinking and...
by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
For decades, weed has been the excuse legislators, prison companies, and police departments have used to put non-violent citizens to work in prison labor camps. As the “weed will make you an ax murderer” propaganda fell out of fashion, savvy capitalists knew better...
by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
The Alito retirement watch has some new data points this weekend, and they’re worth parsing carefully, because not all of them are saying quite the same thing. Let’s start with the most substantial: CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who has deep...
by RG | Apr 20, 2026 | above the law
Legal AI tools are usually sold as if lawyers are interchangeable. Same interface. Same prompts. Same outputs. The assumption is that if the technology works, everyone will benefit equally. That assumption is wrong, and it is one of the main reasons legal AI adoption...
