by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
Cooley Law School has shed three-quarters of its full-time faculty. It’s still losing money. And it’s not just the former number 2 nationally ranked law school feeling the pinch. Professor Paul Campos has spent years chronicling law school financial shenanigans. In...
by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
Reed Smith pointed to the arbitration clause in its engagement letter hoping it could bump the civil RICO suit out of court. It did not. Bankruptcy Judge John P. Mastando III denied the firm’s motion to compel arbitration and its alternative motion to dismiss on...
by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
At Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Adam Schiff tried something different. Instead of asking Trump judicial nominee Gregory Carl Cook directly who won the 2020 election — a question that has produced the same scripted non-answer from every...
by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the U.S. Department of Justice, demanding access to unredacted Epstein investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding, files New Mexico...
by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
Most law firms have no shortage of technology these days, but that might be part of the problem. A firm can have one system for prospects, another for documents, and still more tools for scheduling, client communications, reporting and accounting. Stitching them...
by RG | Aug 6, 2026 | above the law
Just yesterday, we noted that Biglaw had officially become the single largest employer of new law graduates. That’s still true. But there’s a catch: the biggest firms are hiring fewer of them. New data from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) shows that...
