by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
In previous columns, I have covered the “Montana Loophole,” where car owners would deliberately register their car outside of the state they reside in. People did this to avoid their home state’s sales taxes, annual registration fees, regular smog checks in some...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
It’s a match! With an asterisk… or two. Troutman Pepper Locke is the latest firm to get on board with the salary scale Milbank set back in June, telling associates it will pay market — effective January 1, 2027. The firm is matching lockstep for associates in their...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
If you want to become the associate partners ask for by name, start with this: make it easier for them to serve their clients. Finish what you start. Tell them what they need to know. Give them work they can use. And please, don’t make them chase you for an assignment...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
Apparently no one around Brett Kavanaugh has even the slightest sense of optics. Shouldn’t there be someone in his orbit that scores high enough on a basic pattern recognition test to advise a guy best known to the country for sexual misconduct allegations — including...
by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
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by RG | Sep 17, 2026 | above the law
We are compiling our annual list of the top outside counsel and need your input. As always, to build our Outside Counsel Rankings, we turn to those whose perspectives matter most to law firms — the clients who hire them. If you are an in-house attorney, we want to...
