by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
We’re kicking off another packed agenda at the 46th annual ILTACON today. With dozens of sponsors, more than 80 panels and educational sessions, countless activities, and a stacked agenda, this year is sure to show just how the legal tech world is growing. As ILTA CEO...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
The shadow docket strikes again. Yesterday, in an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration an emergency stay letting it move forward with the president’s March executive order overhauling how mail-in ballots get administered — the...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
There are Supreme Court collectibles, and then there’s this delightful little piece of SCOTUS history. A holiday card featuring the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor — styled as “The Supremes,” naturally — is heading to auction through Nate D....
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)The pandemic was good for at least one thing: It prompted some old law school buddies and me to begin meeting occasionally by Zoom. Although the pandemic has ended, the calls have not. One of those calls prompted today’s column. A...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
For years, contracts and product documentation lived in separate worlds. If you wanted to understand how software actually worked, you talked to the product team, read the technical documentation, or sat through a product demo. If you wanted to understand the legal...
by RG | Aug 25, 2026 | above the law
The scope of judicial immunity is broad, but, alas, it is not “handcuff-a-child-and-subject-them-to-a-live-streamed-show-trial-while-threatening-to-send-them-to-juvenile-hall-for-falling-asleep-on-a-field-trip” broad. That’s the takeaway from the Sixth Circuit’s...