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...

Biglaw Wants Private Equity’s Money — Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same ‘management services’ trick that swallowed your dog’s clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss’s door. That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22: The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a...

Biglaw Wants Private Equity’s Money — Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same ‘management services’ trick that swallowed your dog’s clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss’s door. That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22: The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a...

Before the DOJ brought criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Kash Patel called the civil rights organization “a partisan smear machine” and accused the entity of defaming hate groups. Because Kash Patel has never met a political...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The Constitution doesn’t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn’t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the...

You know how your parents, trying to defend what seemed at the time an unreasonable curfew, used to say nothing good happens after midnight? Turns out that’s also true of the United States Senate. At approximately 4:17 am Saturday morning, the Senate confirmed Todd...

Though the LSAT’s status as the unquestioned gatekeeper of law school admissions isn’t quite what it once was, with schools increasingly embracing alternative pathways and greater flexibility in how they evaluate applicants, the rite of passage for would-be lawyers...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Obviously I’m here for another term. — Justice Samuel Alito, in comments given to the Wall Street Journal, concerning his continuing tenure on the Supreme Court. NPR incorrectly reported on June 30 that Alito...

Ed. note: This article first appeared in Strategies & Voices, a publication of the Legal Marketing Association. Merc Smith recently published a thoughtful piece in Strategies & Voices titled “AEO: What Legal Marketers Need to Know, Beyond Digital Roles.” If...

Some of the richest law firms on the planet have started quietly asking whether they should sell a piece of themselves to private equity. According to the Financial Times, Paul, Weiss; Quinn Emanuel; and Proskauer have all held preliminary conversations with PE groups...

(Image via Getty)For the past two years, the legal industry has been obsessed with one question: Will AI replace lawyers? I think we’re asking the wrong question. The better question is this: If AI takes over routine legal work, what becomes more valuable? That was...

Consider President Donald Trump’s “brain trust” — the small group of people he consults before making major decisions. Even mediocre people can make good decisions if they’re surrounded by competent help. (Some would say Joe Biden, a genial mediocrity, did that.) How...

I have been marketing my business for more than two decades, and I can say without hesitation that nothing has helped build my brand quite like podcasting. Not networking groups. Not speaking alone. Not articles by themselves. The podcast has created access,...

Trump has given America so many gifts! An “American Flag Blue” reflecting pool so clear you could swim in it. A state fair packed with luminaries like Dean Cain to celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial. A giant arch that would make Reich Minister Albert Speer...

Mayor Mamdani just unveiled his municipal grocery store initiative, creating five stores offering fresh meat, produce, and pantry staples at a substantial 30 percent discount. It’s part of his plan to tackle food deserts and, ideally, drive down food costs generally....

In a recent conversation with Elise Holtzman, founder and CEO of The Lawyer’s Edge, Steve Fretzin tackled one of the most persistent myths in the legal profession: that rainmaking is something you’re either born with or you’re not.  What Elise laid out was the...

The post Moderna Gets FDA Approval For mRNA Flu Vaccine, But CDC Input Still Uncertain appeared first on Above the Law.As the flu season unfolded last year, the available vaccines turned out to be mismatched to the strain that became dominant. The vaccines still...

* Todd Blanche confirmed as Attorney General in the middle of the night. [NPR] * President’s son-in-law intended to destroy villages to build luxury property on stolen Albanian land he bought from suspected gang lord. We are running out of unique English sentences so...

Just Pretend You Won: After raging over his loss in the birthright citizenship case, Trump issued new executive orders asserting that he actually won. Just When You Thought The Paul Weiss Surrender Couldn’t Get Worse: The New York Times dug into the first Biglaw...

When You’re A Star: Donald Trump bitterly complained about losing the birthright citizenship cases. Yesterday, he issued executive orders asserting that he won. Collins No. Murkowski No. McConnell Absent. Cassidy: Sure, Fine. Todd Blanche is going to be Attorney...

It’s August. Milbank kicked off the 2026 associate salary wars on June 2. Fewer than a handful of firms almost immediately matched the new salary scale. And then… nothing. In late July, Milbank doubled down with special bonuses. This time, the silence was even more...

When Washington called off its entire July bar exam after the NextGen debut face-planted in a Yakima convention center, the state’s three law school deans and pretty much anyone with a scrap of compassion were all begging for the same answer for the roughly 600...

This morning started with Senator Lisa Murkowski announcing she will vote against Todd Blanche’s confirmation as Attorney General, leaving Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana as the sole remaining Republican vote standing between Blanche and confirmation… or between...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There are many people in firms who I think disapprove of [office romances] but don’t think there’s much they can do about it. And there are powerful partners ​who think they can do whatever they want. — Peter...

One of the stranger practices I have encountered during my career is when judges decide motions at oral argument and then direct one of the lawyers to handwrite an order reflecting the court’s decision. This does not happen in every court, and plenty of judges either...

Last July, a woman taking the New York bar exam went into cardiac arrest. She gasped for air, cried out, fell out of her chair, and turned blue on the floor in front of proctors, staff, and hundreds of other examinees. The proctors told everyone to stay in their seats...

Go Big Or Go Home: Biglaw may be the largest single employer of new law school grads, but now associate class sizes are shrinking. Senator Schiff Tried A New Approach With Trump’s Election-Denying Judicial Nominees: He asked about 2008, 2012, and 2016 first. The...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The issue is not what my beliefs are or even my motives when I bring a case; the issue is the merits of the case that I bring. The notion that the cases lack merit because of the belief of the prosecutor is a...

Most lawyers I know have considered writing a book. They have an idea. They have experience. They have lessons they have learned through years of practicing law, managing clients, trying cases, building firms, developing business, or leading organizations. They have...

My condolences go out to all examinees who suffered through the general bar exam last week and who encountered tsuris (Yiddish for grief); specifically in those states where meltdowns occurred. How about in Washington state, where the “NextGen” exam resulted in six...

Cooley Law School has shed three-quarters of its full-time faculty. It’s still losing money. And it’s not just the former number 2 nationally ranked law school feeling the pinch. Professor Paul Campos has spent years chronicling law school financial shenanigans. In...

Reed Smith pointed to the arbitration clause in its engagement letter hoping it could bump the civil RICO suit out of court. It did not. Bankruptcy Judge John P. Mastando III denied the firm’s motion to compel arbitration and its alternative motion to dismiss on...

At Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Senator Adam Schiff tried something different. Instead of asking Trump judicial nominee Gregory Carl Cook directly who won the 2020 election — a question that has produced the same scripted non-answer from every...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the U.S. Department of Justice, demanding access to unredacted Epstein investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding, files New Mexico...

Most law firms have no shortage of technology these days, but that might be part of the problem. A firm can have one system for prospects, another for documents, and still more tools for scheduling, client communications, reporting and accounting. Stitching them...

Just yesterday, we noted that Biglaw had officially become the single largest employer of new law graduates. That’s still true. But there’s a catch: the biggest firms are hiring fewer of them. New data from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) shows that...

The war between Russia and Ukraine is the largest European conflict since World War II. It is also the most morally unambiguous war since WWII. Unless you are a victim of Russia’s extensive propaganda machine, it is absolutely clear that Russia unjustifiably invaded...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Today, firms of more than 500 lawyers have firmly established themselves as the single largest employer of new law graduates, accounting for more than one in five employed graduates of the Class of 2025. When...

The results of the 2020 election are not just like, your opinion, man. There was a demonstrated winner and loser and the election was one of the most investigated in history and Joe Biden won. That is just a fact. Now 12 former federal prosecutors who worked on J6...

The post DISCO Moves Beyond E-Discovery With ‘Unified Litigation Solution’ That Combines Case Facts And Case Law appeared first on Above the Law.DISCO is moving beyond e-discovery, the technology that has been its bread and butter ever since its founding in 2013, to...

* New Mexico sued the Justice Department, accusing Todd Blanche of facilitating a cover-up of Epstein crimes in the state. [Courthouse News Service] * Trump attempts to block BBC access to his finances as he learns that “discovery” is a thing that happens. [New...