by RG | Apr 15, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. STOP, JUST STOP, calling what Donald Trump has extracted from Biglaw “pro bono.” It is such an obvious sham. Yet the media use that term...
by RG | Apr 15, 2025 | above the law
What is this, a re-run episode? You know the story. The American Alliance for Equal Rights is back again and they’ve set their sights on the ABA. You know the drill: yada yada yada, racial minorities took my spot, I didn’t even apply but I was chilled from doing so...
by RG | Apr 15, 2025 | above the law
The post Trial Postponed To Allow Appeal In Thomson Reuters’ Lawsuit Against Legal Tech Startup ROSS appeared first on Above the Law.For the second time in the long and winding road of the copyright lawsuit brought by Thomson Reuters against the now-shuttered legal...
by RG | Apr 14, 2025 | above the law
Is all the hype around AI-supported, near-time reporting for depositions real? This Readback power-user is a believer. As an employment attorney and the founder of the Lacy Employment Law Firm in Pittsburgh, Andrew Lacy has managed a lot of depositions in his career....
by RG | Apr 14, 2025 | above the law
Biglaw is under attack. In an effort to accumulate a $1 billion war chest of pro bono payola to spend on whatever legal fights Donald Trump deems worthy — even post-presidency — the president has used a series of Executive Orders (or the mere threat of them) and the...
by RG | Apr 14, 2025 | above the law
Technology has redefined how we think about building, innovating, and delivering legal services. In Season 10, Episode 6 of “Notes to My (Legal) Self,” Brittany Hernandez, head of legal innovation at Gavel, shared her unique journey from military service to law school...
