by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jeanine M. Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. There is a...
by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
Last week, the Fifth Circuit resolved a random trade secrets squabble between two logistics companies over three-and-a-smidgeon relatively uneventful pages. The only wrinkle in the case was the magistrate judge’s ex parte meeting with one side, which earned a...
by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
8am spent its Kaleidoscope conference in Las Vegas last week promising lawyers their time back. CEO Jeff Hughes opened with the company’s “Admin Misery Index” — 1,600 lawyers surveyed, 73 percent calling busywork a substantial problem, “at least 200 hours per year”...
by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
Kinney Recruiting is working closely with a boutique corporate law firm in New York, NY, on a search for a counsel- or partner-level corporate lawyer. The attorneys at this firm are all former lawyers from large law firms who decided their clients would be better...
by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
The Supreme Court opened its new Term on Monday, which means it’s time once again for another entry into legal media’s favorite pastime: Is Sam Alito going to retire? This round of speculation didn’t come from a column in The Nation or a misheard announcement in the...
by RG | Oct 6, 2026 | above the law
After the inaugural NextGen Uniform Bar Exam turned into a six-hour technological nightmare in Washington — with hundreds of examinees unable to begin the test before the entire administration was canceled — the National Conference of Bar Examiners has found a novel...
