by RG | Apr 17, 2025 | above the law
The Firm’s $125M Capitulation Has A Very Small Asterisk: No free work on trade deals! That’s Way Too Many Pro Boner Hours: Attorney may have gotten caught streaming 60+ hours of porn at work. Plagiarism Isn’t Just A School Problem: Lawyer gets punished for copy and...
by RG | Apr 16, 2025 | above the law
Everyone agrees that generative AI is valuable. Everyone believes it’s going to be indispensable to the legal workflow. No one seems to know what it’s worth. That tension sits at the heart of the 2025 Generative AI in Professional Services Report from Thomson Reuters....
by RG | Apr 16, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty)In February, President Trump summoned the nation’s governors to the White House for an airing of grievances. As usual, the tiny number of trans athletes topped the list. “Is Maine here?” he asked, before yelling at Governor Janet Mills for...
by RG | Apr 16, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)They thought they made one-shot deals which they would fulfill, but the administration seems to think that they have subjected these firms to indentured servitude. — Professor Harold Hongju Koh, of Yale Law School in a New York Times...
by RG | Apr 16, 2025 | above the law
Reed Smith, long recognized as a Gold Standard Firm by the Women In Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), has done away with all of the diversity shit it professed as near and dear to its heart for the last decade or so. I’d link you to them bragging about how important...
by RG | Apr 16, 2025 | above the law
Legal Services NYC has quietly scrubbed references to its diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging commitments from its public-facing website. The move, announced internally via email on Tuesday, marks the latest in a growing line of DEI retreats across the legal...