by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
Between now and when tax returns are due in the coming months, the IRS or the Department of Justice’s Tax Division often issue a press release about someone pleading guilty to or being convicted of a tax crime and facing jail time. If the story makes local news, then...
by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
Who a lawyer actually represents is one of the most important facts to clear up for anyone hoping to avoid serious professional responsibility problems. It’s usually pretty straightforward, but when it’s at all muddy, the whole representation becomes an ethics CLE...
by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a law professor, where you earn your J.D. may play a significant role in whether you ultimately make it into the legal academy. Professor Derek Muller of Notre Dame Law School recently took a look at which law schools produced the...
by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
When the Florida Bar didn’t want to perform the most basic of its duties as the state’s designated professional licensing authority, it invented a new rule out of whole cloth to justify punting a detailed ethics complaint about then-Attorney General Pam Bondi. The...
by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
At a recent conference at which I spoke, a member of the audience raised her hand and asked why law firms are having so much trouble determining the ROI of artificial intelligence tools that they are buying. I thought about it for a minute, and then it hit me: it’s...
by RG | Sep 2, 2026 | above the law
The Supreme Court’s shadow-docket blessing of Donald Trump’s ballroom was always going to draw reviews. And y’all — Ty Cobb has THOUGHTS. The former Hogan & Lovells partner, who left Biglaw to serve as special counsel in the first Trump White House, has since made...
