by RG | Oct 26, 2026 | above the law
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which now-defunct Manhattan law firm, with roughly 250 lawyers and offices in five cities, wasn’t a partnership in the usual sense: it had a single equity partner, who was secretly running one of the...
by RG | Oct 26, 2026 | above the law
Weil’s Next Chair May Be Out The Door Before She Ever Takes Over: Simpson Thacher should consider opening a Weil wing. Todd Blanche Had One Job In The Ghislaine Maxwell Interview, And It Was Apparently Changing The Subject: In a sex trafficking investigation… with the...
by RG | Oct 26, 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. Happy Monday! Highlights from Last Week – Top Ten Headlines 📰 #1 “Supreme Court Recusals Stop Music Case In Its Tracks, Strike...
by RG | Oct 26, 2026 | above the law
Eight days before Election Day, House Judiciary Committee Democrats released a 50-plus-page staff report whose title borrows from the birthday letter Donald Trump insists he never wrote, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump...
by RG | Oct 26, 2026 | above the law
On Wednesday, October 21, the Trump administration waltzed into federal court in California, demanding a temporary restraining order to force the state to “set aside vote-by-mail ballots” from some 20,000 people it claims are noncitizens registered to vote. The motion...
by RG | Oct 26, 2026 | above the law
Biglaw associates may be busy wondering what bonus season will bring, but some firms are already giving their lawyers something to celebrate in the new year: bigger salaries. Yet another firm is making its move without waiting for Cravath’s blessing. Nothing says...
