by RG | Sep 30, 2025 | above the law
Lower Courts Pushed To Conform Their Rulings With Shadow Dockets: They have the majority, but actual cases would take too long. Here’s Where To Summer: A Biglaw tier list ranked by summer associates! Lessons To Learn From Arguing Supreme Court Cases: Neal Katyal...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
They Just Appointed A Co-Managing Partner: They aren’t interested in mergers. For now. Don’t Mess With Texas: They want to cut the ABA out of their accreditation processes. Kavanaugh Greenlit ICE Using Racial Profiling: How much further is the court willing to go?...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
After the 2014 murder of law professor Dan Markel, gunned down by a pair of hitmen, suspicions quickly fell upon Markel’s former in-laws. One of the hit men infamously told authorities that they did it because “the lady wants her two kids back,” seemingly referring to...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to ALM’s 2025 Summer Associate survey, how many hours on average did summers work this year? Hint: They took home an average of $4,350 per week, which is pretty damn good money for the hours...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, long viewed as a stalwart of Wall Street law firms, now seems to be scrambling to steady its ship. Already battling turbulence, the firm just shook the table again — this time, by naming a new co-managing partner in the midst of mass...
by RG | Sep 29, 2025 | above the law
When I first heard Tyler Quillin, principal corporate counsel at Microsoft, say that he asks engineers to “explain it to me like I’m an eighth grader,” I had to laugh. Not because it was funny, although the image of an Xbox hardware engineer breaking down technical...
