The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused of strangling her three children, has gripped the nation. Social media has been filled with true crime sleuths at home finding alternate theories of the case and postpartum advocates pointing out the ways the system failed...

A barrister just earned the professional boot, and based on the findings, thinking a colleague should be committed is one of the least problematic allegations. The Independent shared a report on Mariam El-Sobky, until recently a Lincoln’s Inn barrister, who made...

There are questions in American law that divide judges along ideological lines. Whether Sigal Chattah gets to keep playing dress-up as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada is, it turns out, not one of them. Today, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit...

Britney Spears. FKA twigs. Selena Gomez. These are three extraordinarily powerful women who could hire virtually any lawyer in the country, yet when faced with deeply personal legal battles unfolding under intense public scrutiny, they have all turned to the same...

With technology continuing to drive massive disruption in the legal industry, anticipation for ILTACON 2026 is higher than ever.  Here’s what a few attendees are expecting in advance of the massive legal tech conference, set for the week of Aug. 23 in Nashville. How...

The Supreme Court isn’t in the business of granting rehearings and it’s very much not in the business of changing its decisions upon rehearings. But Donald Trump has made a practice of refusing to take no for an answer and, in that spirit, he asked the Supreme Court...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We would be honored to host Justice Thomas at Stanford Law School. The Stanford Constitutional Law Center, directed by professor Michael McConnell, former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...

Email is one of the most important ways lawyers communicate with colleagues, adversaries, clients, and pretty much everyone else involved in the legal profession. Most lawyers probably send dozens, if not hundreds, of emails during a typical workday. Because email is...

Another day, another wild story about corruption at the US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Illinois. The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush reports that prosecutors at the formerly august institution spent the past year harassing the family of a state judge in...

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way legal teams approach document review. With the ability to analyze enormous volumes of information at speeds that traditional review methods simply cannot match, AI has created significant opportunities to reduce costs,...

Paramount+ has handed out a straight-to-series order for Discretion, an eight-episode legal thriller from A24 with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning starring and executive producing. Kidman plays Sharon, the commanding senior partner. Fanning plays Lenny, the summer...

* Trump’s legal team at S&C just keeps shrinking. [Politico] * Armed men claiming to be ICE agents try to bust into immigration law firm. [Sacramento Bee] * Already facing ethical questions, the Chicago US Attorney’s Office now revealed to have been running...

A court employee in Connecticut noticed an unusual stretch of white space in a filing. Upon closer inspection, the “nothing” turned out to be 3-point, white-on-white text. It would be invisible to any human casually reading reading the page, but perfectly legible to...

Yale Law Cool Kids’ Chat: JD and Usha Vance’s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple’s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty. Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really...

Gloria Park always wanted to be a storyteller. She just didn’t expect to find that career in litigation. In this episode, the Susman Godfrey partner talks about growing up in a first-generation immigrant family, choosing law school because it let her “tell stories for...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. That’s a big undertaking because we haven’t looked at renovating how we are structured for 40 or 50 years. We need to move into the 21st century. — Barbara Howard, president of the American Bar Association, in...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which federal judge, impeached by the House and removed by the Senate for his role in a bribery scheme, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives three years later (the very chamber that had...

Double Jeopardy Mushroom: The DOJ works out interstate stalking plea deal with Luigi Mangione so his lawyers can claim New York murder charges amount to double jeopardy. Nicole Kidman Is About To Play The Biglaw NDA Machine: A new Kidman-Fanning legal thriller...

For law students, technology law isn’t just about keeping up with the latest gadgets and apps anymore. Between the explosion of artificial intelligence, rapidly evolving privacy rules, cybersecurity threats, cryptocurrency, and seemingly endless questions about who...

The post Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI For Lawyers, But You’ll Have To Wait Awhile To Chat With It appeared first on Above the Law.Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett ended the Supreme Court’s 2023 term with two dissents that complicate the usual descriptions of her jurisprudence. In Ohio v. EPA, decided on June 27, 2024, Barrett joined the Court’s three liberal justices in opposing emergency relief from a...

Somewhere out there is a Signal group full of Yale Law graduates, and they are still talking about law school -- or at least some of their classmates. That's the detail that launched a thousand social media posts from Kate Andersen Brower's new Vanity Fair profile of...

Todd Blanche was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States earlier this week — by Emil Bove, because of course — and today he addressed the DOJ workforce with a message that can be summarized as: ignore everything you have seen with your own eyes for the last...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Of all the people who have served as attorney general of the United States, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, who is the only one who went on to serve time in federal prison? Hint: Before he...

Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned out to vote...

When Benito Mussolini sent his followers to march on the capital in 1922, he fully expected to be thrown in jail (or more) for his attempted coup. Instead, he was asked to become prime minister. Mussolini himself stayed in Milan, allowing him to cultivate the sort of...

Up To $170K In Bonus Bucks! This firm has already handed out three bonuses, while Biglaw associates are waiting to see if they’ll maybe get one. Purcell Unprincipled: Alabama held its first primary since the Supreme Court jettisoned the Voting Rights Act, and people...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a tele–town hall this week as part of his Senate campaign, and one caller decided to skip the small talk. “Hi Paxton, nice to meet you,” she began, sweetly. “I’m just wondering — why did you cheat on your wife?” Honestly? Same....

While much of Biglaw is still dragging its feet on associate raises, one elite litigation boutique certainly isn’t making its lawyers wait around for more money. Reid Collins & Tsai is getting ready to hand out its third round of associate bonuses in 2026, and the...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The quality of legal education is inseparable from the quality of justice in America. As legal education and the profession confront a period of rapid change, AALS believes it is essential to bring together a...

Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn’t forfeit the firm’s independence, Paul Weiss reportedly seriously debated letting Stephen Miller review the firm’s webpage edits according to the New York Times. The same reporting turned up the...

(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)For many fresh law school graduates, getting a spot at the Department of Justice Honors Program was a pipe dream because of its ultra-competitiveness. But since President Donald Trump took office, many DOJ lawyers have quit,...

Let’s not insult each other: it’s highly unlikely that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier watched the Sky-Fever WNBA game this past Saturday. For all the performative concern about the sanctity of women’s sports, no one believes he sat down with a cold one to...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. As a thought experiment, imagine only one person had a superintelligent lawyer. They would have an unfair advantage in court — even if they were wrong on the merits. That would lead to a worse society. But now...

(image via Getty)The precursor to modern guided cruise missiles was the V-2 ballistic missile. Nazi Germany launched thousands of V-2s into Great Britain under the mistaken impression that the randomness and brutality of this new technology would break Londoners’...

If you’re going to farm out your company documents to AI, at least make sure the AI isn’t confessing to any labor law violations. Matt Bruenig flagged a weird sign-of-the-times NLRB matter out of Texas. Daniela Melendez worked for an aftermarket auto parts company...

The post Small Businesses Could Face Double-Digit Premium Hikes In 2027 appeared first on Above the Law.Small group insurers are proposing a median 14% increase in premiums for 2027, according to a recent analysis from KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare.The...

AI vendors show up at every conference with marketing material touting how they serve the vast majority of the Vault 100. And then their direct competitor makes the same claim. And so does another product that also bolted on an AI tool. We might have all become...

For the sixth year in a row, it is time for this column(ist) to share some thoughts on the release of the Lex Machina Patent Report. If any readers want to send me a half-dozen Krispy Kreme donuts to celebrate, I’ll take two each of the glazed, glazed cake, and...

Peter Navarro is quite the piece of work — here’s a man who served time in federal prison and remains genuinely convinced that the real criminal in the story was the prosecutor. He put the whole range on display Monday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room,” where the mere...

It’s been a long, quiet summer for Biglaw associate raises, with only a handful of firms matching Milbank’s new salary scale. At long last, we’ve got another match — but only for associates in New York. Ice Miller just announced a significant associate salary increase...

Ed. note: Please welcome Josh Anisfeld, chief digital strategist of Baretz+Brunelle, to the pages of Above the Law. In this new series, he and his colleagues at B+B will share their thoughts on trends they’re seeing across the legal industry. Check out the prior...

Ed. note: This article first appeared in ILTA’s Peer-to-Peer Magazine. Breaking news: business and society, including the legal industry, have generally decided AI may have some benefit that is worth leveraging. Many of us have grown markedly more comfortable with...