Last night, the Justice Department bigfooted into the Alaska Senate race and demanded that a federal judge block certification of the election — but only if Democrat Mary Peltola wins. If you guessed that this embarrassing abuse of judicial process was signed by...

I don’t know who’s gonna be your next president, and I think the law says I’m not allowed to run again. I studied that phrase forever. One thing is different. They cheated us on the second one. And we won three times. I think I have the right to run again because they...

It really seemed like we had the billable hour on the ropes. You didn’t need to buy the most extreme threads of artificial intelligence hype to think the technology would at least take a modest bite out of hourly work and leave attorneys either agreeing to accept less...

One of the most critical pieces of guidance for your advanced internal linking strategy is really just a principle you can apply throughout your website and any time you are considering how and where to place internal links, and which pages share logical connections...

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. “Chutzpah Department: After Federal District Court Failed to Act within...

Most law students count it as a win to get through 1L year with their sanity and GPA intact. Connor Carrera, a second-year student at SMU Dedman School of Law, did that… and then walked on to an ACC football team. You are not reading this incorrectly. According to a...

It turns out “matters of national importance” only goes so far with a federal judge. On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett ordered Donald Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by December 11. If he doesn’t, he...

Not that we really needed any more evidence of bad faith by ICE and the officer who decided to drive his car across a city street and into an adjacent parking lot for the apparent sole purpose of running over a fleeing migrant, but here it is anyway. As we covered...

Earlier in my legal career, a mentor gave me a piece of advice about dealing with opposing counsel that has stuck with me over the years. He told me that whenever another lawyer asked for a favor, I should try to get something in return. Whether opposing counsel...

On July 30, 2025, Mary Jane Jung went into cardiac arrest in the middle of the New York bar exam. According to her complaint, she lost consciousness and turned blue in front of proctors, staff, and more than 600 other examinees. The exam kept going. According to...

Weil Gotshal & Manges and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have ended their merger discussions, according to Bloomberg Law. The talks were called off Thursday night, after the two firms had gotten far enough along to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Spokespeople for...

The post Saudi Arabia’s Nuclear Program Could Outlive Its Government, So Plan Accordingly appeared first on Above the Law.Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has built his rule on security and prosperity, the simple concept that a modernized Saudi Arabia would also...

Vivek Ramaswamy is a Yale Law grad, a biotech multimillionaire, and the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio. He has now reached a new low in a race where he’d already had plenty of them. His campaign is spending $4 million on an ad in which the estranged mother of...

(Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)John Sarcone is, for all intents and purposes, running the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, even though he is very much NOT the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York. The...

DOJ’s Watchdog Looked At The Reflecting Pool Case And Decided It Was Someone Else’s Problem: The test results for the IG system are in. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Attack Ad Featuring Amy Acton’s Estranged Mother Is Vile: And bad politics too. Trump’s DOJ Stopped Letting Its...

A first-level fighter walks into a dragon’s lair, and the dragon smiles. A lawyer takes the same risk when he opens an AI account on Monday and then asks it to take on a catastrophic injury case on Tuesday. The AI comes back with a very confident answer. The lawyer...

By now you’ve seen the headlines characterizing a federal judge in Dallas as having “abandoned her post.” Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas has since had her cases reassigned and been ordered to sit for a psychiatric exam. In the early hours of a...

Facebook’s misrepresentations about users’ control of their data were not isolated incidents, but rather a systematic pattern of deception at the core of Facebook’s business model. — New Mexico District Court Judge Francis Mathew handing down a $25 billion penalty to...

LexisNexis Chief Technology Officer Greg Dickason In an iconic scene from 1999’s “Office Space,” product manager Tom Smykowski, believing he is being set up for a layoff, faces a duo of management consultants.  The consultants challenge Tom about his role as a...

It’s been a rough couple of years at the Justice Department. On her first day in office, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi made declining to sign a brief a fireable offense. Later, rather than stop asking her lawyers to do things that could get them disciplined, she...

Two weeks ago, David Hearn’s lawyers asked the inspectors general at the Justice and Interior Departments to figure out how a 67-year-old Olympian ended up indicted for touching a piece of the Reflecting Pool that was already falling off. And the result of that...

The years-long campaign to put Serranus Hastings’s name back on San Francisco’s oldest law school is finally, mercifully over. On Monday, the Supreme Court denied review in Hastings College Conservation Committee v. State of California in a one-sentence order with no...

When my son was growing up, he had a habit that probably sounds familiar to any parent. He would have a snack and leave the cabinet open. Socks would land on the floor instead of the hamper. Something would get started, but the last step never seemed to happen. My...

NetDocuments opened its Inspire conference with a multiplayer keynote that sounded a little like “The Wizard of Oz.” It laid out its advantage (lions). Where it’s trying to go (tigers). How it proposes to get there (bears). And it exposed some challenges (oh my). Most...

* Justice Department Inspector General refuses to investigate handling of Reflecting Pool matter… you know, the one where the administration ruined the pool and tried to send an innocent Olympian to jail as part of the cover up. [AP News] * Administration attacks...

Elena Kagan Says The Supreme Court Majority Has ‘Blinded Itself’ To The Damage It’s Doing To Democracy: Kagan says the Court isn’t a Trump rubber stamp, but she thinks the majority is breaking the country anyway. The Supreme Court Has Told The Hastings Family To Kick...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Every American law student who has ever dreaded a cold-call or slogged through a casebook can trace the torment to one man. Starting in 1870, which Harvard Law dean threw out the old model of lectures...

Justice Elena Kagan is very, very good at taking apart conservative bullshit. This is the justice who looked at the majority’s major questions doctrine and labeled it a set of “get-out-of-text-free cards,” and whose dissents are the rare Supreme Court opinions people...

A video showing a private equity bro describing his new strategy to take over law firms — despite the “Rule 5.4 drama” — made the rounds over the last couple days. Johnny Hilbrant has skewered private equity on social media for a while now, but he recently took aim at...

It was a rough week for the Trump administration’s relationship with credentials… and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a “lawyer,” but there was no record of her being licensed anywhere. It’s the move every law...

At the media briefing today at the NetDocuments Inspire conference, the CEO, Josh Baxter, made a bold statement: “There is the opportunity for the first time to change the practice of law.” I think he may be right. But opportunity is just that. Whether anyone...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Tennessee has somewhat bucked the national trend of looking at this and electing to regulate. — Josh Porte, co-chair of Holland & Knight’s legal services transactions team, speaking to the Nashville Post⁠...

Since World War II, no military ally has done more for the United States than Ukraine. If it wasn’t for Ukraine absorbing all those Russian cruise missiles, suicide drones, cyber attacks, and meat-grinder infantry charges, it would be a NATO nation, and the United...

The Florida Bar spends a chunk of its time dealing with other people’s ethical lapses. This week, it’s dealing with one from its own payroll. The Bar said Tuesday it has placed Kade McLendon, a computer technician who has worked there for about two years, on...

Federal clerkships are incredibly prestigious and highly demanding, and elite firms are willing to pay handsomely for lawyers with that experience. That’s why bonuses for former clerks have climbed well into six figures, as litigation powerhouses compete to bring...

When you sue someone for $10 billion, it’s generally expected that you’ll find time to talk about it. Under oath, even. But Donald Trump’s lawyers told the BBC their client couldn’t sit for his scheduled October 16 deposition due to “other matters of national...

* Judge Ada Brown saga gets more bizarre as she emails sealed court papers to 140 people. [Bloomberg Law News] * The fight over the Hastings name ends, as Supreme Court refuses to take up challenge to law school’s name change. [Reuters] * Court imposes bounty system...

I was under the impression that I didn’t have to prepare for this panel. At this year’s RelFest, the Legal Data Intelligence State of the Union — an annual tradition marrying education and chaos — adopted the frame of a trial. David Horrigan, Relativity’s discovery...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! “Learned Hand” is one of the most memorable names in American law — a brilliant federal appeals judge, the most-quoted jurist never to sit on the Supreme Court, owner of a moniker that sounds almost...

Lawyers are trained to read contracts, statutes, court opinions, and complicated regulatory provisions. We can spend hours examining a single paragraph in an agreement, arguing about what a particular word means or whether a provision creates an obligation that...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We are grateful for the Arizona Supreme Court’s willingness to consider an innovative approach to legal education and for the opportunity to demonstrate that a new pathway to licensure can maintain the highest...