by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
One of the first things you need to know in a fight is who you can and can’t rely on. Thankfully, time and resources were saved by knowing that Paul Weiss is a lost cause. But the search is still on for compatriots willing to speak out against the current...
by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It’s a con to create the illusion that Trump is tough on lawyers when it really adds nothing to the law whatsoever. Trump has apparently decided that lawyers will be his new...
by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
What do five Biden, two Obama, one George W. Bush, one Trump judicial appointee to the district courts have in common? If you guessed that they all issued significant injunctions, many at the national level in the last several weeks then you answered correctly. This...
by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)For a party that’s been absolutely obsessed with ruminating about every farting thing the founding fathers ever thought, Republicans in 2025 have spent an awful lot of time trying to destroy the system of government those same...
by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
Lawyers, law schools and law firms have long been thought of as the people and places that love a good principled argument. But that reputation is slipping. Everyone has been talking about Paul Weiss’s cowardice in the face of the Trump administration, but they aren’t...
by RG | Mar 26, 2025 | above the law
Back in 2019, most folks in Biglaw couldn’t imagine the all out assault that would come for the legal profession in just six years. But in the year of our lord 2025, the rule of law is facing an existential crisis. In the face of a direct attack by the Trump...
