by RG | Apr 25, 2025 | above the law
Can someone check in on Judge Wilkinson? Because the conservative legal movement luminary appears to be having a moment. Wrapping up a routine insurance opinion by musing, “What after all does it matter?” the Fourth Circuit veteran took Owners Ins. Co. v. Walsh on a...
by RG | Apr 25, 2025 | above the law
* Skadden facing an NLRB probe over its decision to block firm emails to squelch talk about its Trump deal. [Bloomberg Law News] * Trump prepares to strip ABA of its role accrediting law schools. If you have a copy of Contracts for Dummies and a dream… prepare to get...
by RG | Apr 25, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway. I...
by RG | Apr 24, 2025 | above the law
By now, followers of the legal industry — and even those outside — are aware that a number of Biglaw firms decided to capitulate to the threats of Donald Trump rather than defend the rule of law. We may never know exactly how that sausage was made — what combination...
by RG | Apr 24, 2025 | above the law
The post Trump Is Coming For Biglaw. Here’s What The Firms Are Doing About It. appeared first on Above the Law.The President of the United States is using the might and power of the office to attack Biglaw firms and the rule of law. It’s pretty chilling stuff that is...
by RG | Apr 24, 2025 | above the law
Last night at roughly 9 p.m., thousands of very online lawyers had a sympathetic panic attack. The precipitating event was a litigation memo thoroughly rubbishing the Department of Transportation’s attack on New York’s congestion pricing plan which was inadvertently...
