Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who is the Wyoming trial lawyer, instantly recognizable in the fringed buckskin jacket he seemingly never took off, who over the course of his six-decade legal career claimed a record few can match: he...

Kirkland & Ellis Is Done Sharing Its Revenue With The Media: Turns out $10 billion is right where the numbers stop providing ‘meaningful value.’ Biglaw Wants Lawyers Who Know How To Use AI: But some law schools are outright banning it. This could turn into a...

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Most companies still treat contracts as records. They negotiate the agreement, sign it, store it, and return to it when someone has a question, a renewal approaches, or a dispute arises. The contract governs the relationship, but much of the business operates without...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Associates from one school consistently arrive ready to work confidently in an AI-enabled environment. Associates from another need months to ramp-up. The firm will notice, and its recruiting will follow. —...

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly (a Trump appointee, a fact the president himself has been lamenting since the beginning) looks ready to keep his order blocking Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in place for the long haul. As reported by Politico, at a hearing...

Better Call Saul was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a career guide. One former Alaska attorney learned that the hard way. Justin Facey, a 46-year-old former Anchorage defense attorney, was recently sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty...

Kirkland & Ellis — the biggest of them all, the firm that has spent years parked at the very top of Biglaw’s money charts — has decided it’s done showing its work. The firm told The American Lawyer it will no longer provide financial data to the media, which means...

Age 68: She Leaves Imagine a lawyer at her retirement party. She has tried her last case, packed her office, and heard enough speeches. Then a partner she hired out of law school leans over and says, “We’ve got it from here.” Those are the words she will remember. The...

The post ROSS Says It Will Ask Supreme Court To Review Third Circuit Ruling For Thomson Reuters In Copyright Case appeared first on Above the Law.Following this week’s ruling by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Thomson Reuters in its long-running...

For years, in-house legal teams had little control over how their technology connected, both across their own tools and with the systems other business units run. As a result, integration rarely shaped vendor evaluations. Traditionally, the market offered enterprise...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The picture is pretty grim for consumers in the United States. — Lorelei Salas, the former director of supervision at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in comments given to Reuters, on the agency’s...

* First Circuit hears the challenge to RFK Jr’s decision to replace the nation’s vaccine authority with a bunch of conspiracy loons. [Reuters] * L.A. judge accused of inappropriate sexual and racial comments struggled in disciplinary hearing. [Bloomberg Law News] *...

The Supreme Court talks a lot about juries, but it very rarely will empanel one. In fact, there’s only one reported instance of it happening. What is the only known instance of a Supreme Court jury trial? Hint: This unusual procedure arose under the Court’s original...

Judge Newman Finally Gets A New Forum: After years of having her fate decided by the same colleagues that sought to sideline her, Judge Pauline Newman’s case has officially moved to the Eleventh Circuit. The Reflecting Pool Case Is Dead, David Hearn’s Lawyers Want An...

I consider myself a bit of a lay expert when it comes to museum closures. I worked at a museum for two years before it was suddenly shuttered. Both of those years being ones in which Donald Trump was either running for or serving as president, there were always vague...

There are many ways to rank law schools, but the way that the National Jurist’s preLaw Magazine does it is quite interesting. Rather than concentrating on the prestige factors that usually dominate law school ranking systems, this ranking focuses solely on factors...

Last week, a D.C. Superior Court judge made sure the Trump administration can never again prosecute David Hearn for touching a piece of the Reflecting Pool that was already falling off. Now Hearn’s lawyers want to know how the case happened in the first place. On...

Being late for jury duty is annoying. Getting arrested for it, in front of everyone else waiting to be questioned in a capital murder case, is something else entirely. On Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor used the Supreme Court’s denial of cert in Mulkey v. Alabama to...

In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap of mousetraps. After the special prosecutor denied attending an Atlanta Hawks game, Schmitt...

Lots of talk and money these days are being focused on AI in legal. And like much of the talk, a recent survey and report from Everlaw is a classic case of viewing the GenAI glass as half full. (Well, perhaps 49% full, see below.) That’s not to say Everlaw is wrong,...

Samuel Alito Isn’t Retiring, But He’d Like Republicans To Vote Like He Might: Nothing gets the base out like a vacancy that may or may not exist. Today, I’ll Be Performing A Monologue From…: Judge James Ho elevates his desperate audition for the Supreme Court by...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who spent four decades as Washington’s consummate insider — a St. Louis lawyer turned White House counsel who advised every Democratic president from Truman to Carter, masterminded an upset reelection,...

To mark UpLevel Ops’ 10th anniversary, Stephanie Corey sat down with her longtime friend Reese Arrowsmith, EVP for legal operations at Fox Corp., to trace the profession from its earliest days to where it’s headed next.  The conversation turned practical: why document...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The only reason there’s a feeling that you must move early or you’re going to miss out is that all the firms are artificially constraining their pipeline to a handful of schools. It’s that FOMO effect. — Nikia...

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. Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. There is a...

8am spent its Kaleidoscope conference in Las Vegas last week promising lawyers their time back. CEO Jeff Hughes opened with the company’s “Admin Misery Index” — 1,600 lawyers surveyed, 73 percent calling busywork a substantial problem, “at least 200 hours per year”...

Kinney Recruiting is working closely with a boutique corporate law firm in New York, NY, on a search for a counsel- or partner-level corporate lawyer. The attorneys at this firm are all former lawyers from large law firms who decided their clients would be better...

The Supreme Court opened its new Term on Monday, which means it’s time once again for another entry into legal media’s favorite pastime: Is Sam Alito going to retire? This round of speculation didn’t come from a column in The Nation or a misheard announcement in the...

After the inaugural NextGen Uniform Bar Exam turned into a six-hour technological nightmare in Washington — with hundreds of examinees unable to begin the test before the entire administration was canceled — the National Conference of Bar Examiners has found a novel...

We have all heard it. AI is creating a generation of mindless lawyers who won’t know how to think. They won’t know how to write. They won’t know how to do research. They’ll just type a question into AI, copy whatever they get back and merrily send slop on its way. And...

I want my money back. How about you? The cost of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” has been about 500 grand. I’d like my share back, please. The cost of changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America”? Perplexity can’t help me. The...

The post Relativity CEO Says 2028 Server Deadline Stands; Will Prioritize Partnering With Frontier Labs Over Legal AI Companies appeared first on Above the Law.Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan....

The post Trump’s ACA Fraud Crackdown: Experts Urge Going After Bad Actors, Not Patients appeared first on Above the Law.Addressing fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare has been a major focus of the Trump Administration, particularly with the creation of the White...

* “Justices Fret Any Climate Tort Ruling Will Open Pandora’s Box.” Yeah, you wouldn’t want to unleash some sort of compounding harm without any mechanism for controlling it… [Law360] * Judge James Ho complains about judges being accused of using their power to...