by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)When it comes to nominating judges, it is hard to deny that Donald Trump is a machine. He got 234 federal judges confirmed during his first term; three of those helped secure a Republican majority on the Supreme Court. This...
by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
White & Case — a firm that brought in $3,316,735,000 gross revenue in 2024, putting it at No. 9 in the most recent Am Law 100 — made news earlier this week after announcing that it was mandating four office days for attorneys each week. The elite firm is now back...
by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
Perkins Coie secured a permanent injunction against the Trump administration’s retaliatory executive order. Meanwhile, firms that balked at putting up a fight against the illegal attacks have seen the White House drag them into police brutality cases and law schools...
by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
On May 6, the 10th annual CLOC Global Institute kicked off in Las Vegas. The opening keynote was delivered by Nancy Rademaker, a well-known international speaker who often addresses the impact of digitization on individual, customer, and employee behavior. True to...
by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
In March, Paul Weiss received the inglorious honor of being the first (but not the last) Biglaw firm to surrender to Donald Trump to get out from under an onerous Executive Order designed to extract a financial penalty for being affiliated with cases and causes that...
by RG | May 7, 2025 | above the law
Glossy press releases never capture the hidden costs of a merger or acquisition. There’s always some eye-popping top-line value number and the audience is left to imagine the toll exacted by integrating accounting systems, aligning org charts, and telling staff that...
