M&A Power Players Start Their Careers At These Law Schools: Check out the top 10 law schools for dealmakers here. Hawkeye Fallout: Graduates of Harvard and ASSLaw both caught up in Senator Eric Schmitt’s embarrassing Jack Smith failure. But let’s still not get...

On Tuesday, Donald Trump gathered the leaders of America’s most powerful tech companies for a White House luncheon, and they emerged with the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, “super intelligence” being the president’s stupid preferred nomenclature for...

So, you want to make partner in Biglaw’s high-stakes mergers and acquisitions practice? After years of blockbuster deals, brutal slowdowns, and hopeful rebounds, it’s a career path that isn’t for the faint of heart. But which law schools will give you the best chance...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 1948, a Harvard Law graduate from near the top of his class couldn’t land an offer from New York’s white-shoe firms because he was Jewish and took the only job available, as the first associate at a...

I facilitated a lunch discussion with about 20 law firm leaders at the International Legal Technology Association’s 2026 annual conference to help answer a question the profession still struggles with: How do you measure the return on legal AI? I expected the...

The Supreme Court finally put down the dead horse that the Eighth Circuit kept beating, ruling for the third time that Missouri can’t impose an illegal gerrymander in time for this election. But this farce highlights a growing problem as conservative — primarily...

For a year and a half, the Trump administration’s plan for Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt inquiry has been simple: make sure he never actually gets to inquire. On Tuesday, the full D.C. Circuit sounded ready to let him do it anyway. Quick...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Last Sunday, I was at a bar off a lonely rural road half-watching my favorite NFL team when a Donald Trump campaign ad flashed onscreen. I’d previously heard of these taxpayer-funded propaganda spots airing on Fox News and Newsmax,...

Your professional success depends on skills you didn’t learn in law school. Skills like leveraging new technology, navigating organizational politics, or effectively pursuing your long-term goals.  For the past year, Goldberg Segalla partner Frank Ramos has been...

Let us tell the story of a suit against Match.com. In 2019, the Federal Trade Commission sued “Match Group, Inc. (Match), the owner of Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, PlentyOfFish, and other dating sites, alleging that the company used fake love interest advertisements to...

I visited Boston last weekend. Unfortunately, as I was boarding the plane, I learned that some events I planned to attend in the city have been cancelled due to the storm passing through the East Coast. So while I was thinking about other things to do, I happened to...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The closest analogy [for AI] is a U.S. Supreme Court clerk at your elbow: astonishingly well-read, relentlessly available and capable of an extraordinary turnaround. … That’s why the clerk analogy is so apt. A...

Getty ImagesEd. note: This article first appeared in Strategies & Voices, a publication of the Legal Marketing Association. At the top of the Am Law 200, the chief marketing officer (CMO) seat has become one of the most consequential roles in the building. It is...

The post House Intel Committee Could Investigate Defense Firm Contributions To White House Ballroom appeared first on Above the Law.WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House’s intelligence committee is warning defense contractors about a “likely” investigation into...

* Lindsay Clancy lawyer questions if she even killed the kids. [NPR] * The Biglaw model is in disarray and it’s not because of AI. [The Economist] * Trump’s former DOJ antitrust chief lands at White & Case. [Bloomberg Law News] * Supreme Court allows...

First, the Iowa Hawkeyes delivered a demoralizing 20-19 gut punch to the Michigan Wolverines on a last second play. And now the university has indirectly exposed the sitting senator and former state AG of neighboring Missouri as an unserious clown of the highest...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States, but he found the job so underwhelming — a Court that heard only a handful of cases, plus miserable circuit-riding duty — that in 1795 he...

Imagine sitting down for tacos and discovering that the evening’s specials include chips, salsa, and glockamole. That’s what recently happened when a Georgia state court judge finished his meal at a local taco joint and accidentally fired his weapon when trying to...

Justice Samuel Alito will not, after all, be deciding the climate change case his stock portfolio has a rooting interest in. On Monday, Supreme Court Clerk Scott Harris sent the parties in Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County a one-sentence notice,...

The law school applicant boom isn’t going anywhere, and the people actually reading the applications say you can thank (or blame) the political climate. According to a new Kaplan survey of admissions officers at 90 of the nation’s 198 ABA-accredited law schools...

At this point, the Justice Department’s staffing crisis has its own expanding series of soap opera subplots, and the newest one is in uniform. According to Bloomberg Law News, a Marine Corps major on Thursday messaged military lawyers about openings for active and...

The post Beyond CLM: The Road To An Agentic Future appeared first on Above the Law.Facing increasing demands to do more with less, corporate law departments are exploring the promise of agentic AI. With good reason: Even the most helpful tools for tasks like document...

Peter Feist, the head of Cravath’s private equity practice, is going back to Weil, where he spent nearly 20 years before leaving for Cravath in 2023. He’ll be US co-head of private equity. This lateral merry-go-round is getting dizzying. Three weeks ago, corporate...

The post In A Marriage Of Two ALSPs, Repario Acquires UnitedLex To Strengthen Its AI Offerings appeared first on Above the Law.In a marriage of two alternative legal services providers, Repario, a company with a focus on e-discovery and managed review, has acquired...

Trump’s Newest ‘Public Service Announcement’ Is Just His 2024 Campaign Ad, Now Paid For By You: Ethics lawyers from both parties say that’s the whole problem. Weil Poaches Cravath’s Private Equity Chief Three Weeks After Cravath Poached Its Corporate Chair: Peter...

Ask a company what contract terms it accepts, and you may receive a playbook. Ask why it accepts those terms, when it makes exceptions, how different provisions interact, and what would change the decision, and the answers often become less precise. Much of an...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The nomination of which Supreme Court justice reportedly received gasps from the Senate when his name was submitted by President Woodrow Wilson? The fight that followed dragged on four months, the...

DISCO’s 2026 Legal AI Report opens by announcing that this “may be the year the legal tech dam finally burst.” Compared to the legal industry’s baseline, that makes some sense, with simple adoption taking a huge leap this year. Despite the gushing imagery though, the...

When personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee’s client, Jane Doe, dropped her sexual assault lawsuit against Jay-Z last year, the allegation didn’t simply disappear. Jay-Z, whose legal name is Shawn Carter, kept fighting the lawyer who brought the case. Now, in a stunning...

Donald Trump has made several predictions during the past 10 years. In February 2020, Trump predicted that COVID would go away — “like a miracle” — very quickly. Mm-hmm. In fact, the country would be “opened up” by Easter 2020. Mm-hmm. He predicted that the war in...

Donald Trump has found a new way to spend your money on himself. This weekend, the White House rolled out its latest government-paid “public service announcement,” and this one doesn’t bother pretending to be something other than a campaign ad, because, well, it is...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You go from essentially a monk-like existence where you’re in your chambers — unless you’re in court — you’ve got your three law clerks, or your family. And here, gosh, I’ve already traveled to probably four or...

I attended the 8am Kaleidoscope conference this past week. And like most legal tech conferences, much of the talk was about AI. AI and lawyers. AI and law firms. AI and your future. But perhaps recognizing there is only so much AI we humans can absorb before it leaks...

On Friday night, the Supreme Court finally put an end to Missouri Republicans’ quest to steal a congressional district for the 2026 midterms. “The District Court and Court of Appeals should not enjoin or otherwise prohibit the use of the 2022 map in the 2026...