by RG | Dec 2, 2025 | above the law
Funny thing about being a lawyer and testifying on your client’s behalf — the zealous advocacy baked into your job makes people a little suspicious of whatever you say on the witness stand. Despite that, we may see Alex Spiro stepping up as Elon Musk’s witness against...
by RG | Dec 2, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! What law school did Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, attend? Hint: It was revealed in Detective Comics #439, via a diploma on the wall. See the answer on the next page. The post A Law School Good Enough For...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
While you spent the weekend working through your leftover turkey, the conservative legal movement embraced a new passion project: digging up the remains of a long-dead Supreme Court justice. These people are very, very normal! Justice William O. Douglas — still the...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
As I was drafting this piece, Cloudflare experienced an outage that froze the AI tools I needed for background information. The outage lasted several hours. Imagine if I’d been working on a brief due in an hour. While the legal profession debates AI hallucinations,...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Partisans can make everything partisan. For example, who causes a standoff? Both sides. It takes two to stand off. If either side gave in to its opponent’s position, there would be no standoff. So who caused the government shutdown? Both sides, of course. The...
by RG | Dec 1, 2025 | above the law
Sometimes the legal universe gifts us a moment of pure, uncut joy… the kind of cosmic alignment where the docket reads less like a court filing and more like a setup for a joke you’re pretty sure you can’t tell at the office. And today, friends, that moment arrives...
