by RG | Sep 11, 2026 | 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, 2026 | above the law
Michael Aiello, chair of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’s roughly 600-lawyer corporate department, member of its management committee, and a powerhouse in the indistry, is leaving for Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He is not going alone — Aiello is bringing a team of...
by RG | Sep 11, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The pattern is showing the majority of large firms will have smaller first- and second-year associate populations. The further out I look, the greater the level of uncertainty about what their needs are going...
by RG | Sep 11, 2026 | above the law
In this episode, I sit down with Amos Guiora, law professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Bystander Initiative, to talk about his new book, Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable. The conversation traces his path from an...
by RG | Sep 11, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If everything is checking out, it’s something I would consider. I appreciate that at least he came out, although late, he came out and rectified the situation. — President Donald Trump, in comments given to...
by RG | Sep 11, 2026 | above the law
The Department of Justice and the Department of Education announced Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law spent years discriminating against white and Asian applicants using “race, essay prompts, and other tactics” to tilt admissions...
