by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
Chief Justice Lapdog Gets A Handshake And Thank You From President Trump: Way to blow his “Balls and Strikes” cover, Mr. President. Amy Coney Barrett Saw Partisan Hackery And Her Face Had Subtitles: She wasn’t the biggest fan of seeing the Judiciary and the Executive...
by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
The first time an engineer told me, “You actually get it,” I felt like I’d earned a badge of honor. That comment didn’t come out of nowhere. It was the result of months spent diving deep into the guts of their product, asking questions, breaking features on purpose,...
by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw firms are usually pretty quick to fall in line when it seems like a trend is afoot. Associate raises? Check. Bonuses? Check. Increased attendance mandates? And check. Almost as soon as Paul Weiss announced that it had switched up its office attendance policy to...
by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
(Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)This week, I’ll be attending and reporting on the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin, Texas. SXSW—or as some call it, South By—is a sprawling, nine-day event (13 if you include...
by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)One of the quickest lessons you pick up in law school is that the path to knowing the law doesn’t end at finding a line in the Constitution or a statute and reading it aloud to anyone who would hear it. A...
by RG | Mar 5, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images)Last night’s presidential address to Congress was something to behold — if you’re into bearing witness to the death throes of American democracy. Most notable for (Supreme) Court watchers was, of course, the exchange between...
