by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
Back in September, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct published an advisory opinion concerning judicial employees’ political activities. At the time, judges were encouraged to curtail law clerks from applying to post-clerkship political jobs...
by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
Earlier this month, DLA Piper attorneys in the U.S. discovered that their signature blocks had been edited, without any warning or notice, to scrub any mention of personal pronouns. In an unintentionally fitting memorialization, the firm’s “global search and replace”...
by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. It was another intense week of headlines about legal ethics. So like last week, your top ten headlines list is packed with extras (see...
by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)Judge Dale Ho asked the conservative movement’s top Supreme Court advocate, Paul Clement, to weigh in on the Trump administration’s decision to dismiss its case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice. Judge Ho...
by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)Those Diddy party invitations really should have come with “attending this party may do serious damage to your future reputation” disclaimers. They attracted the likes of many celebrities over the years. Some of those who were in...
by RG | Mar 11, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw is in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Lawyers at two Biglaw firms Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie — have been called out by the Trump administration for retribution. But the scrutiny is likely to spread. The admin has already admitted...
