That Only Two Two Months: The first Milbank special bonus match has finally arrived! Laurence Tribe Says Trump Wants To Be ‘Not Just King Trump, But Emperor Trump’: Even Versailles had limits. It’s 10pm. Do You Know Where Your Junior Associates Are? Still at the...

Schema markup is an easily overlooked part of your law firm website, in large part because, if you are viewing the website via web browser, you will never actually see it. Search engines, however, rely on the information this type of markup provides to recognize the...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! With the nearest real courthouse a punishing 200 miles away, which West Texas saloonkeeper (portrayed in 1972 by Paul Newman), with no legal training and exactly one law book to his name, got himself...

The attractions of Biglaw are obvious: the big-name clients, the big deals, and the very big paychecks. And every year, Legal Cheek reminds us what those paychecks cost. The UK legal news site just released the working-hours data from its 2026-27 Trainee and Junior...

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada...

Early Thursday morning, a federal judge ordered the White House to give CNN, MS NOW, and Politico back their access. By Thursday night, CNN was on air explaining that it had been turned away from the state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. Chinese state media...

We’ve been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for a firm to match Milbank’s special bonuses since they were first announced on July 27. Here we are at the end of September, and we’ve finally got our first taker. It’s Cahill Gordon & Reindel, a firm famous...

Historian Rachel Shelden, author of The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, joins me to unpack how deeply political the Supreme Court actually was for its first century, why the Court’s modern claim to be apolitical is a relatively recent invention, and why...

For much of the history of the legal profession, clients visiting their lawyers’ offices was simply part of practicing law. Clients would come in for meetings, sit in conference rooms, review documents, and discuss their matters face-to-face with counsel. Law firms...

Sheri Mecklenberg is back, baby! She wants in on the “Broadview 6” case which imploded in May after her gross misconduct before the grand jury was revealed. She is also outta here, dropping an epic resignation letter that is almost certainly a precursor to litigation...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Why is it that one party should get a fast pass to the Supreme Court of the United States when so many other parties are queued up, waiting patiently for the court’s attention? — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson,...

Most solo and small firm litigators walk into a hearing having only argued their case with themselves. No moot, no devil’s advocate, no one in the room willing to say, “That’s your weakest point, here’s why.”  In a bigger firm, that’s a colleague down the hall. In a...

The post At Its User Conference In Las Vegas, 8am Announces MCP Integration And New AI Tools For MyCase, Plus New Law Firm Funding Program Through LawPay appeared first on Above the Law.At its second-annual Kaleidoscope customer conference in Las Vegas today, 8am...

Another day, another law firm data breach. Just days after Greenberg Traurig was hit with proposed class actions over its own cybersecurity incident, Seyfarth Shaw has disclosed that a “targeted social engineering attack” exposed client documents containing personal...

We read for a living. Somewhere along the way, some of us stopped reading for ourselves. We read motions, contracts, emails, and whatever someone sends us five minutes before a call. We spend hours reading because someone needs an answer. Then we get home, look at the...

Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jeanine M. Donahue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. There are...

8am’s second Kaleidoscope vendor conference kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Las Vegas. There are worse places to contemplate the dangers of success. 8am (formerly AffiniPay) brings together several legal technology platforms, including the practice management...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You are not Atticus Finch. [Y]ou have to accept that you are in the business of sales. — Ivan Gaviria, a corporate partner at Gunderson Dettmer, in remarks delivered during a business-development boot camp for...

In-house lawyers hear it all the time. Be a business partner. Sit at the table. Understand the business and add value beyond assessing the legal risk.  There is no question we should. The best in-house lawyers do all of those things. There is a tension baked into that...

Getty ImagesIn a recent conversation with Randi Cohen, labor and employment litigator at Kalmanson Cohen PLLC, I explored how a lawyer with nearly two decades of experience built a seven-figure practice without ever really thinking of herself as someone who networks....

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Trivia Question of the Day. According to Bloomberg Law’s 2026 Attorney Well-Being Survey, what percentage of women lawyers who are also caregivers say they’re often exhausted by the combination of work and caregiving? Hint: If...

The Fearsome Foursome: Which law firms strike fear into the hearts of opposing counsel? Another Day, Another Law Firm Hacked: The human element is getting to be a problem here. Start Reading Again: Not for work, but for your own enjoyment. 8am’s Kaleidoscope...

Investigative journalism always mattered, but it feels as though trailblazing journalists matter more these days. With the Department of Justice being run as a concierge service to shakedown the president’s enemies, and traditional journalism outfits like CBS News...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which lawyer argued well over 150 cases before the Supreme Court and shaped the foundations of American constitutional law right from the lectern while simultaneously serving in Congress? A later chief...

Paul, Weiss announced Tuesday that it has enhanced its private equity capabilities with six new lawyers: private equity co-head Christopher Machera, private equity M&A partner Timothy Burns, tax partner Noah Beck, executive compensation partner Amanda Rotkel, and...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There’s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using ​AI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it. — AI at Berkeley Law, a...

Late last week, President Donald Trump abruptly banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico reporters from the White House because he didn’t like their unfavorable (in other words, accurate) coverage. All three news outlets immediately sued on First Amendment grounds to get...

Women lawyers have been getting unsolicited wardrobe advice from law schools⁠, bar associations⁠, and judges for years. This time, the offending garment was a gray J.Crew shift dress. The scandalous detail that may leave you clutching your pearls? It had no sleeves....

More fallout from the big Weil departures. Joe and Kathryn talk about balancing business and why “values” is not necessarily the corporate speak language law firms should adopt all the time. Plus new speculation that Weil is considering merger partners — has the music...

The White House spent the first two days of this week explaining why banning three news organizations from the building isn’t a First Amendment problem. This afternoon, it has to explain that to a federal judge instead. MS NOW got the talking points the White House...

Getty ImagesEvery lawyer who reads legal industry news knows what happens when AI errors show up in a court filing. A New York lawyer asked ChatGPT to confirm that six cases were real. It said yes. All six were fake, with invented docket numbers and quotations to...

When we last caught up with Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the Eastern District of Michigan, his drunken-driving escapade had ended with a no contest plea and probation, but he still had a judicial misconduct complaint hanging over his head. That matter has now been...

(image via Getty)When a draft tax return is released, normally it draws little attention, even from full-time tax-return preparers. Perhaps the one exception was in 2018 when the tax return was shortened to two one-half pages. While most people probably appreciated...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I view dissent as more than just a disagreement with the outcome of a case, I see them as an expression of faith in the future and a demonstration of hope. However desolate the moment feels, we who write for a...

“Any confusion stems from the last-minute decision by a state court to switch the congressional map.” That’s the Eighth Circuit, lying in a per curiam opinion filed Monday night. In reality, the “confusion” was created by a scheme laid out by Missouri Republicans to...