by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
Kanye West goes by many titles: producer, artist, and founder of Donda Academy. Named after his late mother, the now closed school was a Christian private school in Simi Valley, California. It isn’t the easiest thing to know what attending the school was like...
by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
It’s a new day at 8am. That’s true generally, but in this case, we’re talking about tech provider we used to call AffiniPay. Fresh off its name change, the company hosted its inaugural user conference last week in Austin, Texas. While everything is usually bigger in...
by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
At a time when hard-won discrimination protections in the U.S. are being steadily eroded, we’ve never needed the passion and commitment of young lawyers aspiring to build careers in human rights more than we do today. The National Jurist’s preLaw magazine recently...
by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
Too often, my colleagues in law firms push back on going in-house because they want to stay longer to make more money, gain experience, or find a more fitting position. These can be fair reasons to delay or avoid going in-house — especially if one genuinely enjoys...
by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I thought it would be awful, and it’s mostly ok. — An anonymous Am Law 100 associate’s response to a question found in the American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey about what surprised them the most about...
by RG | Sep 11, 2025 | above the law
Decades ago, when I was a baby lawyer, I thought that I wanted to be a judge. Judges ran courtrooms, or the clerks did. The judge was almost always a white male (female judges hadn’t really cracked the judicial glass ceiling, let alone had a person of color). He...
