by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
There’s something fundamentally unsavory to the majority of lawyerly types about selling out the rule of law. Nine Biglaw firms struck deals with the Trump administration in order to avoid unconstitutional Executive Orders designed to hurt the bottom line of major law...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The court has obviously made mistakes throughout its history, and those should be criticized. So long as it is in terms of the decision, really, and not ad hominem against the justices. I just think that...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Every once in a while you come across a structurally ironic scenario where a person offers evidence for a claim in ways they did not intend. Take the judiciary’s image crisis, for example. You could point to several things from recent history: Amy Coney Barrett...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
“If ChatGPT told you to jump off a cliff, would you do that too?!?” screams my internal scolding voice. Because despite an ever increasing number of cautionary tales about lawyers ill-advisedly letting G(PT)sus take the wheel, another pair of law firms have bumbled...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
President Donald Trump is waging his trade war using the same fundamental principle he applies to every issue: say a ton of contradictory stuff then claim to have been right all along when some of it turns out to be right. Whatever Trump says, I can guarantee that...
by RG | May 14, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by Am Law, which Biglaw firm had the lawyer that billed the most hours last year? Hint: This lawyer billed an eye-popping 3,800 hours in 2024. See the answer on the next...
