by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
The post Has Legal Industry Upheaval Changed Your Career Goals? appeared first on Above the Law.As AI and other factors drive uncertainty for law firms, we’re looking to our readers to weigh in on their own career goals. Does the risk of “cognitive offloading” alter...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
Most in-house lawyers talk about AI as if it is a future event that will arrive with a contract, a vendor, and a clean implementation plan. The truth is far less organized. AI is already inside your company. It arrived through your employees’ browsers, their phones,...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, easy to circumvent, a serious threat to privacy and security, and...
by RG | Apr 17, 2026 | above the law
* Private equity looking to put its money into law firms. [Law.com International] * Judges embrace paralegal’s suggestion for modernizing briefs. [Law360] * Legal academics plead with ABA to maintain law school diversity standard. [Law.com] * Ghislaine Maxwell’s...
by RG | Apr 16, 2026 | above the law
Let’s talk about the Eric Swalwell situation, because it is, as they say in the legal profession, a whole thing. For the unfamiliar: Swalwell — a California congressman, former presidential candidate, fellow attorney, and cable news fixture who made a cottage industry...
by RG | Apr 16, 2026 | above the law
It is, officially, not a crime to wear an inflatable penis costume to a protest in Alabama. We should not have needed a trial for this, and yet here we are. As Techdirt explained last week, Renea Gamble — a 62-year-old grandmother — was arrested last October at a “No...
