by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
‘The Law Is On Our Side Across The Board’: Ted Boutrous would know, he helped build it. After A Run Of Defections, Weil Is Reportedly Thinking About A Merger: That is one way the accelerate the firm’s growth. Google’s Defamation Defense: Relax, nobody believes our AI...
by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
Someone Googled “Jimmy Keene net worth,” hoping to figure out how much money the author, TV producer, and former FBI informant has tucked away after his memoir became Apple TV’s Black Bird. Google’s AI Overview explained that Keene was “serving a life sentence without...
by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
Conservative justices have spent years at war with two words. I know you’re thinking it’s something like “equal protection” or “reproductive rights,” or “basic ethics,” but let’s be serious — they already won those wars. The two words that get the conservatives riled...
by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has conducted a criminal trial exactly once — sitting not as an appeals court but as the trial court itself, with the justices weighing the evidence...
by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
Viewed in context, the above violations of [Supreme Court lawyer Thomas] Goldstein’s rights were part and parcel of the government’s litigation strategy—not mistakes. Indeed, prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings below: shifting its theory...
by RG | Sep 21, 2026 | above the law
When Michael Aiello and a handful of his M&A partners left Weil, Gotshal & Manges for what the firm memorably called “a smaller platform,” And by that, they meant… Cravath. Weil said it would respond by hitting the gas. The firm “has long believed that an...
