Law school deans have a weird job description. Technically, they lead the law school in its academic mission. But, more realistically, they fundraise, game the U.S. News rankings, and manage the law school bureaucracy. Ideally, they keep the alumni happy at football...

Tuesday was a big day for Kash Patel’s legal portfolio… just not in the direction he intended. As we noted earlier this week, the $250 million defamation complaint against The Atlantic filed by Patel and his lawyer Jesse Binnall was already straining credulity before...

If you’ve ever laughed at a phrase like “Be honest with your therapist, but not so honest that you end up in the Grippy Sock Hotel,” this is the update you’ve been waiting for! Juggling the obligation to be forthright so you can get the assistance you need without...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. She wasn’t working right away, and like many new grads, she had student debt and credit card debt from getting through school. Market rent in the Los Angeles area wasn’t realistic, even with a job offer lined...

The 2026 Super Rich list has 37 firms clearing $1.45M RPL and $625K PPL thresholds after Am Law had to raise because last year’s bar was too easy. Then Kirkland proved what super rich really means by dropping a guaranteed $80M over three years to snatch a star lawyer...

In its entire 250-year history, the United States of America has never suffered even a single year-to-year decline in population. Throughout the centuries, here, births and immigration have always outweighed deaths and emigration. While we slaughtered each other in...

Legal teams today face a fundamental shift. In product-led companies, speed is everything — and traditional legal processes simply can’t keep up. In this week’s episode of UpLevel View, Betsy Cantrell (VP of Legal at HighLevel) shares how she transformed her legal...

Jonathan Turley’s Remarks Wouldn’t Fly In An Undergraduate Paper: But we have to pretend its credible because he’s saying it. Calling Your Own Words “Lies” Is A Strong Start: Kash Patel’s $250M complaint isn’t going so well. Honesty Becomes Best Policy: The NBCE...

There is a certain dark comedy in watching the law firm that advises OpenAI on its “safe and ethical deployment” of artificial intelligence rush to the federal bankruptcy docket seeking leniency after realizing they’ve filed a lengthy brief riddled with AI...

Multibillion-Dollar Firm Caught Up On AI Hallucinations: Sullivan & Cromwell needs to up their editing process. Who Exactly Wrote Kash’s Complaint?: The $250M lawsuit looks like it has AI ink all over it. Racing To Employment: Law school shifts academic program to...

Kash Patel’s massive lawsuit against The Atlantic asserts dubious defamation claims, but could it also be… AI slop? The $250 million complaint filed in D.C. federal court — a necessity to avoid the anti-SLAPP laws that would almost certainly make this a financial...

From entering students’ LSAT scores and graduates’ employment statistics right down to the number of books housed in their libraries, just about everything having to do with law school is ranked, so it’s high time that we rank law school buildings. An impressive law...

The post A Public Service Announcement: Legal Tech Companies, Here Are Your Celebrity Endorsers appeared first on Above the Law.It started with Harvey, the legal AI company that signed Gabriel Macht – the actor who played Harvey Specter on Suits – as a brand...

Quick, name the canon introductory courses for law students. Constitutional Law, Torts, Contracts, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure, Property, and Legal Writing. Did you get them all? Great! Unless you’re planning to start your legal career at Mississippi College School...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This Supreme Court is deeply divided on issues, and the public is more familiar with each justice than ever before because of social media. Publishers understand that audiences are invested. —  Kathleen...

In this session, I sit down with Megan Hargroder, founder of Legends Legal Marketing, to unpack what truly builds trust in today’s legal marketplace. In an era where clients research lawyers long before making contact, credibility is no longer built in the first...

Let’s talk about a pattern, because at this point it’s too clear to ignore. You’re a career federal prosecutor. You’ve been handed a politically charged case — one the president of the United States has loudly demanded result in criminal charges against a high-profile...

Kash Sues Atlantic For $250M: I’d say that’s a long shot, but he’s more prone to chugging beers. The Numbers Seem Off: Does working 69 hours in a day seem weird to you too? Training Matters: These are the best schools for practical training! 10 Years Of 4/20?: We...

Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! Greetings...

A common complaint practicing lawyers have is that while law schools cost a fortune, they simply don’t teach the most essential skill needed for professional competency. What skill might that be? “How to be a lawyer,” of course. Some law schools, however, are trying...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Many people think that Donald Trump’s threats and bluster are all a negotiating strategy. Threaten to destroy a country’s civilization; the country’s leaders’ knees will tremble; the country will surrender. I’m not sure that works so...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me ‘Please tell me you’re not using AI.’ And now they’re saying to me ‘Please tell me you are using AI.’ —  Stacy Ackermann, global managing partner of...

The New York Times dropped a bombshell on Saturday. Reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak obtained 16 pages of leaked internal memos from six Supreme Court justices, showing — in their own words, (mostly) on their own letterhead — exactly how Chief Justice John...

For decades, weed has been the excuse legislators, prison companies, and police departments have used to put non-violent citizens to work in prison labor camps. As the “weed will make you an ax murderer” propaganda fell out of fashion, savvy capitalists knew better...

The Alito retirement watch has some new data points this weekend, and they’re worth parsing carefully, because not all of them are saying quite the same thing. Let’s start with the most substantial: CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, who has deep...

Legal AI tools are usually sold as if lawyers are interchangeable. Same interface. Same prompts. Same outputs. The assumption is that if the technology works, everyone will benefit equally. That assumption is wrong, and it is one of the main reasons legal AI adoption...

Lawyer Tells Attorneys They Will Burn In Hell: Don’t remember covering that in law school. A Lesson In Transferable Skills: Former adult movie actress passes the bar. Trump Allegiance And Owing Money Go Hand In Hand: Time for this Trump PAC to pay up! Do You Know The...

For people who don’t watch online videos designed to enrage people, you may not have heard of Johnny Somali. Somali is infamous for his rage bait or nuisance livestream videos in other countries. But Somali learned that South Korea does not play around. On April 15,...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by ALM, how many firms in the Am Law 100 increased their profits per equity partner (PEP) in 2025? Hint: Across the Am Law 100, the average PEP in 2025 was $3,588,162. See...

The American Bar Association represents itself as an organization committed to setting the legal and ethical foundation for the American nation. They aspire to do this by promoting a quality legal education to people who want to pursue it. It isn’t a perfect system —...

If you feel like “America’s Insane Tax-Filing Process” is a drain on both your time and your wallet, you’re not alone. Even the government recognizes the effort that tax compliance places on Americans, publishing an estimated total annual cost burden for U.S....

A lawyer for the owners of Camp Mystic, the Texas camp hit by a flash flood that tragically led to the deaths of 27 people including 25 children, closed out a a long day of hearings by telling the lawyers for the family of a dead child whose body has never been...

John Eastman is in his martyr era. Two years ago, California Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland recommended he be disbarred for his role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. Eastman’s adult children responded with a hilariously over-the-top screed in Glenn Beck’s The...

What do porn stars and lawyers have in common? They both get paid by the hour to screw someone. Crass? Sure. But in light of a famous retired adult film star recently passing the Texas bar exam, maybe it’s a little too on the nose. Asia Carrera, a former pornography...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Our hope with sharing our story is not to promote or glorify ourselves. Our intention is to inspire others to generosity. [Post-surgery,] it felt like we had pulled of the biggest project of our careers. I had...

Arrested Development birthed an always relevant meme when Tobias and Lindsay agreed to try an open marriage. After Lindsay asked if an open marriage ever works to solve marital difficulties, Tobias — always the psychoanalyst manqué (an “Analrapist” as he described his...

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. “Two Magicians Warn the Supreme Court About Junk Science; Penn &...

Ty Cobb — the former Hogan & Lovells partner who left the hallowed halls of Biglaw to serve as special counsel in the first Trump White House, and has since made it his apparent life’s mission to say out loud what everyone else is merely thinking — was back on...

After the whirlwind that the legal profession experienced in 2025 — a year where large law firms really had the urge to merge and nonequity partnership ranks continued to expand — your Biglaw firm may be doing quite well financially… but is it among the Am Law 100’s...

You know what they say about giving an inch. The Trump administration apparently took Judge Richard Leon’s thoughtful national-security carve-out in his preliminary injunction order — the one that let construction continue only for genuine safety measures — and...

The post Has Legal Industry Upheaval Changed Your Career Goals?  appeared first on Above the Law.As AI and other factors drive uncertainty for law firms, we’re looking to our readers to weigh in on their own career goals. Does the risk of “cognitive offloading” alter...