by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome back! I hope August gave you some time to step away, look up, and enjoy the remains of summer. One of my favorite moments...
by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Think about Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer. As far as I can tell, Cohen was an incompetent, a thug, and a criminal who mindlessly supported Trump. Cohen then had a change of heart. He became an incompetent, a thug, and a...
by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew. — Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters,...
by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
We’ve officially moved beyond the “ChatGPT made up a few cases” stage of the artificial intelligence ethics crisis. Now, the robots are apparently inventing witnesses and police testimony in murder appeals. Progress! New Mexico attorney Stephen Aarons was held in...
by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
Donald Trump’s project to remake the federal civil service into something that screens for loyalty just hit a road bump in Massachusetts. On Friday, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole granted three federal-employee unions a stay under Section 705 of the Administrative...
by RG | Sep 14, 2026 | above the law
When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced that corporate chair Michael Aiello was leaving for what it pointedly called “a smaller platform” (the platform in question being Cravath), it was tempting to read the line as a single flash of pique from a firm caught on the...
