by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions. That’s what we’re there for. This job is to obviously decide cases, but in the course of that, to check the excesses of Congress or the...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
(Image via Getty)Protestors and folks who are generally interested in the State not ejecting people for Thoughtcrime have been following two protestors who were faced with deportation. The first is Mahmoud Khalil. He was detained related to protests he took part in on...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
This year’s Law Day, May 1, was different from others. Entitled the National Law Day of Action, it was a day when more than 10,000 lawyers, including me, across the nation, reaffirmed our oaths as lawyers. The most important words are: “to preserve, protect, and...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
It looks like there could be a new entrant into next year’s Am Law 20. That’s because McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel have announced they are in merger talks. The combined firm would be at the $2.8 billion in gross revenue mark, fitting it into...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
(Image via Getty)In the spirit of bar prep, let’s IRAC this. The California Bar had an issue: they looked at their budget and realized that they’d go bankrupt if they continued administering the bar as usual. Rules are rules, though; you’ve gotta have some way of...
by RG | May 8, 2025 | above the law
This week in rejected Black Mirror plots, we had a deceased manslaughter victim reanimated as an AI-generated video to speak at his killer’s sentencing. In a victim impact statement hitherto unprecedented because, you know, THE LAWS OF NATURE, Christopher Pelkey’s...
