Salaries Are Going Up At Cooley: The firm is matching Milbank without Cravath’s seal of approval. Katie Zacharia’s Job Disappears: But at least she’s still a “lawyer”… right? Right? Tech Company Willing To Pay For Law Firm Data: Too bad you need to worry about...

(Image via Getty)I recently had occasion to review another lawyer’s invoices in connection with a case I was handling. As I examined the bills, I noticed that the attorney had recorded dozens of 0.1-hour time entries for relatively minor tasks performed during the...

Yesterday, the Trump administration sauntered into federal court in Los Angeles and asked a judge to order California not to count roughly 20,000 ballots flagged by an unnamed “third-party software” using a commercially available list of registered voters. The feds...

Seventy percent of lawyers have left jobs because of adverse effects on their mental or physical well-being, according to a new study. The Illinois Lawyers Assistance Program surveyed more than 6,700 lawyers and judges across the state about mental health, workplace...

You more than likely already know that location data plays a crucial role in search engine optimization (SEO). For most law firms, showing up in local search results when someone looks for an attorney near them is critical to attracting potential clients who will...

(Image via Getty)Everyone expects AI to make legal work faster. Clients expect it most of all, and some now expect lower bills to follow. Joe Patrice of Above the Law observes that clients want faster and cheaper results regardless of what AI realistically delivers....

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. They said: ‘absolutely, absolutely across the board. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD, and to buffer that, you have international legal experience in transactional law, which gives you the ability...

Earlier this week, Mode.Inc, a Chicago-based consumer tech company that buys up mobile apps and pays users for their data, launched BizBuyData.com, a program pitched as a new revenue stream for law firms. The idea is that “[f]irms can license historical operational...

Could it be? Are Biglaw firms finally coming around and making Milbank matches without Cravath’s permission? It sure looks like it! The latest firm to hop aboard the Milbank money train is Cooley, which announced today that come January 1, 2027, all associates on the...

Professor Carly Thomsen of Rice University, author of Reproductive Justice, Queerly, joins me to explain why reproductive justice scholarship and queer theory have historically talked past each other, what that gap misses, and why culture work, not just law and...

Before generative AI, finding information inside a law firm generally followed a familiar pattern of search, retrieve, and evaluate. It had to be that way. It’s an open secret that firms have spent years scattering information among document-management platforms,...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. A ​law degree should open doors, but NALP’s latest report shows that those doors are not equally open to ​everyone. — Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, in a statement...

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. “DC urges appeals court to end yearlong National Guard deployment in...

The People’s Parity Project, the law student organization that turned Biglaw recruiting season into a pressure campaign, is folding itself into the Roosevelt Institute. According to a press release, PPP’s staff, network, programming, and assets will be integrated into...

* The BBC is trying to hold Trump’s feet to the deposition fire. [Associated Press] * The DOJ’s beef with California over voter rolls heads to court. [Politico] * OpenAI & Meta tell the courts to be very worried about the deepfake evidence. We’re all looking for...

You Sure About That? Katie Zacharia failed the bar exam, but still insists on referring to herself as a lawyer. Judge’s Lorax-Laced Benchslap Asks Why Trump’s Tree Massacre Was So Urgent: Spoiler, it wasn’t. From #DumpKirkland To Government General Counsel: People’s...

Have you noticed, or perhaps it’s just me, that FUBARS tend to breed? If there is one FUBAR, more emerge. What’s the difference between a SNAFU and a FUBAR? Degrees of idiocy.  So how is this for a FUBAR? Tennessee tries to execute a female death row inmate, Christa...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Biglaw firm was founded in 1949 by a Chicago lawyer who’d grown up poor in New Mexico — and, by some accounts, hopped freight trains to get to law school — on an idea the profession found faintly...

Right-wing media have floated weird conspiracy theories about Rep. Ilhan Omar and her immigration status for years, including loony claims that she married her own brother. There’s no evidence of that at all, mind you, though you wouldn’t know it if you perused...

Much like her boss with the 2020 election, Katie Zacharia failed and claimed success anyway. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia came to the job from the ranks of cable news punditry, where she routinely appeared as a “lawyer.” She also served, by her own...

The post Partners Want AI To Help Them Find New Business, But Most Are Running It On Data They Can’t Use, Introhive Survey Finds appeared first on Above the Law.Partners at law and accounting firms say the one thing they most want from business-development technology...

In case anyone wasn’t listening, Legora, the legal AI provider, and Laurel, a work intelligence platform provider, recently announced a “partnership.” A partnership that reportedly has two main parts. It will offer what sounds like a fairly standard timekeeping tool....

The post Who Is Your Go-To Law Firm? appeared first on Above the Law.We are compiling our annual list of the top outside counsel and need your input.As always, to build our Outside Counsel Rankings, we turn to those whose perspectives matter most to law firms — the...

For months, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes did something that has become an endangered species in federal courtrooms: she gave the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt. The case, DC Preservation League v. Department of the Interior, was filed in February by...

Law schools love to talk about preparing students for the future. But when the future is already showing up at law firms, courts, and clients’ doorsteps, a shiny brochure promising “innovation” isn’t going to cut it. What are schools actually doing to help their...

The Trump administration’s long war on the American Bar Association has opened a new front, and it’s… adjunct professors. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Justice Department has warned the ABA that it could face an antitrust investigation unless it loosens...

(image via Getty)Every tax return preparer probably has a few clients who complain about not being able to pay their tax bill. This usually is the case because of poor tax planning, forgetting to make quarterly tax payments, or because someone either partied too hard...

Haven’t you heard? Everyone is using AI. All the time. Depending on which survey you read, somewhere between half and nearly 70% of lawyers and legal professionals are using AI. But I sometimes wonder about those surveys. Many are commissioned by vendors selling Gen...

* States sue OpenAI, claiming the technology harms children. Presumably because those children are trying to draft briefs without caselaw hallucinations. [NBC News] * Supreme Court issues shadow docket ruling, allowing committees to pay reduced candidate rates for TV...

Where Did Trump’s Press Secretary Pass The Bar? ‘When I Moved To China,’ Apparently: You can’t be disbarred if you were never admitted! Who Keeps Handing Alex Kozinski The Mic? He isn’t necessarily wrong about lethal injection, he’s just not the guy anyone needs to...

It’s usually not too easy to scare lawyers, but sometimes clients say things that that make them cower in fear. Because spooky season is here with Halloween right around the corner, we want to know what you think would scare a lawyer the most. As first seen on...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying… if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just...

Disgraced former Ninth Circuit judge Alex Kozinski has a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, which raises the same question it raised the last time he turned up on the Journal’s opinion page: who is giving this fucking guy the proverbial mic again? Seriously, who is...

Every law school graduate has that moment. They’ve made it through law school, they’ve got a fancy office at a firm, they’re doing real — if supervised — legal work… can’t we just sign this email without adding the scarlet letter(s) of “Law Clerk”? Regrettably, no....

The world’s richest man continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help Republican politicians escape the electoral consequences of their spectacular mismanagement of all three branches of the federal government. We’ll see if he can succeed in buying...

That headline is a tad overdramatic, but Kirkland & Ellis did announce that it would no longer help journalists reporting on its financial strength. For years, most law firms have volunteered key data about their businesses to reporters to facilitate the rankings....

A couple weeks ago, Judge James Ho used a concurrence to complain that it’s unfair that people accuse judges of auditioning for promotions. Late last week, he wrote a dissent as part of his audition for a promotion. On Friday, the Fifth Circuit voted 10-7 against an...

Getty ImagesLaw firms are pouring money into AI adoption right now, hoping a new tool will magically organize decades of scattered knowledge. Nobody threw anything away, but almost nobody organized it either, notes Rachel Shields Williams, the director of AI and...

* New press secretary claims to be a lawyer, but she’s never passed a bar in the United States. In response, she says she passed the bar exam in China… even though China doesn’t let foreign nationals take their bar exam. [Popular Information] * Reddit wants Proskauer...