by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
Despite bigger budgets, in-house legal departments are being squeezed from every angle — by rising talent costs, ballooning law firm fees, and an AI bill nobody budgeted for — and a workload that’s outrunning all of it. Download the 2027 In-House Legal Budget Report,...
by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
Are law firms seeing value from AI adoption? As ILTACON speakers have noted, firms face big challenges in quantifying this metric. “It’s hard to come up with the return on investment for efficiency gains when you’re based on the billable hour. You almost have to go...
by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
Senator Eric Schmitt spent Tuesday accusing Jack Smith of perjury over a basketball game Smith never attended, in a city he never visited, involving a seat that didn’t exist. By the afternoon, he’d managed to drag Harvard Law School and — predictably — ASSLaw into the...
by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
The administration is trying to sell early access to the president’s thoughts, and DLA Piper is the Biglaw firm defending it. Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept Media sued the president and White House officials last month, saying efforts to charge for...
by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It’s the information that you can find if you’re able to read between the lines. What would have taken a human a lot of knowledge and maybe 20 hours of searching can now be done in seconds. — Jonah Perlin, a...
by RG | Oct 1, 2026 | above the law
The post US Withdraws Last Remaining Troops Out Of Iraq appeared first on Above the Law. A line of service members and civilian contractors walk to a C-130 aircraft to board their final flight out of Iraq at Ali Air Base on Contingency Operating Base Adder in 2011....
