by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw Partner Gets Ear Pierced In Courtroom After Saving Claire’s From Bankruptcy: Fancy lawyering, fancier jewelry! Trump Sues NYT For Doing Their Jobs: Again. Get a new hobby, man. Luigi Mangione’s Terrorism Charges Dropped: Judge finds the charges wouldn’t have...
by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
Shortly after healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed by a hooded figure in broad daylight, Luigi Mangione was accused of murdering him. Many took the shooting to be an indictment of healthcare and health insurance companies: CEOs scrubbed personalized information...
by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way,” Justice Sotomayor told a New York Law School audience this morning, “I think to myself, that law school failed.” Supreme Court justices… they’re just like...
by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Elise Buie back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. When I went to law...
by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! At the biannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, which Democratic politician told Chief Justice John Roberts the rule of law “is at a Category 6 code red, six alarm fire” due to the Supreme Court’s...
by RG | Sep 16, 2025 | above the law
Getting your ears pierced at Claire’s is almost a rite of passage for adults of a certain vintage. Your mother either brought you to Claire’s to get it done, or your mother yelled at you after you went to Claire’s to get it done with your friends. Either way, it’s...