by RG | Jul 21, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to a recent report, JD-Next’s 1L Reality Check published by Aspen Publishing, what percentage of 1Ls who reported they exercise multiple times a week say their grades are better than...
by RG | Jul 20, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We all need to collectively move on in our thinking to get alternative fee arrangements working in the right way. — Sunny Mann, global chair of Baker McKenzie, in comments given during a recent appearance on...
by RG | Jul 20, 2026 | above the law
The Justice Department has decided that the problem with the ABA’s lawsuit over the Biglaw executive orders is the lawyers bringing it. The ABA sued the administration over the Trump administration’s campaign of executive orders — stripping disfavored firms of...
by RG | Jul 20, 2026 | above the law
The Supreme Court just took a new case to explore the nature of cruel and unusual punishment. Don’t worry, it’s not about halting a state’s plan to execute a scientifically exonerated man by dunking him in a chamber of sharks — which is presumably in the planning...
by RG | Jul 20, 2026 | above the law
Law school is pretty expensive. One of the latest ways to deal with that is to become extremely good at Jeopardy!. We have a new reigning law student champion after Jamie Ding’s amazing $882,605 haul on the show this past spring. Now it’s Caleb Groen’s turn. The...
by RG | Jul 20, 2026 | above the law
Members of Congress should not be permitted to profit from inside information. If a member of Congress learns material, nonpublic information about a company, the member is forbidden to trade in that company’s securities. Why can’t Congress pass that law? Shall we...
