by RG | Mar 31, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to SurePoint Technologies’ 2025 State of the Legal Industry Report, what is the fastest growing role in the Am Law 200? Hint: Hiring for this role increased an impressive 18% in 2025. See the...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
As the DHS funding lapse drags on, American airports are buckling. TSA agents haven’t been paid for six weeks and are calling out sick in record numbers — some airports have more than a third of staff MIA, and more than 500 TSA agents have quit altogether. This...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There’s more warning signs popping up, even on the strategic side. Virtually every managing partner I know [is] more careful about predicting how well their firm is going to do this year. — Blane Prescott, law...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Complicit is a fun word. It comes from the Latin word complicare, which means to fold together. Trump’s presidential runs have been folded together with the Confederacy in some pretty obvious ways that folks, for the sake of staying in good social graces, have done...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Hi from Denver, where I am...
by RG | Mar 30, 2026 | above the law
Stay on the streets of this town And they’ll be carvin’ you up, alright They say you gotta stay hungry “Dancing in the Dark,” Bruce Springsteen, 1984 Years ago, our team was invited to take part in a “beauty contest” for a major, national piece of “bet the company”...
