by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
Christopher Boehning and Daniel Levi, two senior litigators, have jumped from Paul Weiss to the New York Linklaters office. Boehning, FIFA’s lead counsel, becomes the chair of a new global sports practice and the US strategic disputes group. Levi, who also represents...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
Almost everyone knows that it costs an arm and a leg to go to law school. In fact, the average law school graduate leaves law school with up to six figures in debt. Some law schools, though, are interested in keeping their graduates out of the poorhouse. To that end,...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
At this point, the Department of Justice’s staffing crisis has its own expanding series of soap opera subplots. There were the emergency jump teams, rotating AUSAs in from all 93 US Attorney’s offices to plug holes wherever the latest self-inflicted crisis erupted....
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
(Image via Getty)Eleanor Ross shouldn’t be a federal judge. She exhibited disturbingly poor judgment, lied about it, and blamed her law clerk when she got caught. That’s not someone who should make life-and-death decisions about litigants’ lives, livelihoods, and...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The [threat] statistics sound abstract but being on the receiving end of them is not, so I thought I would just share a little bit about how the threats have affected me and my family personally. They have...
by RG | Jul 14, 2026 | above the law
When lawyers imagine an AI-first law firm — and this goes for the media writing about AI-first law firms as well — they tend to spin a narrative in their head about a clever lawyer automating the boring parts, shedding associates, and pocketing the spread. For better...
