by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
On June 18, 2026, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that comedian Carlos Mencia (aka Ned Arnel Holness) has been charged with 12 counts of failing to file tax returns between 2019 and 2024. Last Thursday morning, Mencia was arrested at his...
by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
Bruce Jay Colan spent decades at Holland & Knight before doing what every exhausted Biglaw partner dreams of: he retired. Then Miami’s World Cup host committee came calling in 2023, and he said yes. Shortly after that, he was diagnosed with dry age-related macular...
by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
Winston & Strawn spent the better part of the last year building toward a splashy transatlantic merger with U.K. firm Taylor Wessing. The partner vote came back overwhelmingly in favor, and the combination officially closed earlier this month, birthing the newly...
by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
Another week, another tech company decides that lawyers represent a market worth conquering. This time it’s Perplexity, the AI outfit that made its name with web search, delivering actually useful output that no longer requires scrolling down through six irrelevant...
by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
Thomson Reuters Monday announced what it is calling “a complete rebuild” of its CoCounsel AI tool. But more than that, it marked what President of Legal Professionals Business Ragunath Ramanathan, labeled in his presentation as a pivot to fiduciary-grade AI products....
by RG | Jun 24, 2026 | above the law
Donald Trump spent millions and millions in taxpayer dollars on a no-bid contract to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. Based upon his contemporaneous public statements, Trump believed this would make the Reflecting Pool a more aesthetically pleasing...
