by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which jurist spent 52 years on the federal bench and is widely regarded as the finest American judge never to sit on the Supreme Court — passed over twice, yet quoted by legal scholars and the justices...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
As Lyle Lanley might say, a law firm with AI is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel — no one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it. Firms are falling all over themselves to be able to tell the world they have cutting edge AI capabilities,...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
Justice Clarence Thomas does not do podcasts, or, really, much media of any kind. So it was a small event when he turned up this week on “Verdict with Ted Cruz” — a rare sit-down, timed with all the coincidence of a book launch — and thanked a sitting United States...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
The post Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder And Legal AI Pioneer, Joins Clio To Lead Its Expansion Into The Judiciary appeared first on Above the Law.Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
Some of the most important evidence in a personal injury case can disappear before the injured person has even hired a lawyer. That sounds dramatic. It isn’t. The camera at the gas station doesn’t know there’s going to be a lawsuit. Neither does the dashcam in the...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
Ed. note: Second in a series. Read the first installment here. AI has made legal work faster in many cases, but on the most complex, high-stakes matters, speed can disappear. The reason is that most AI tools are probabilistic and are simply predicting a likely answer....
