We Knew Folks Have Been Jumping Ship, But The Number Is Staggering: The government has been bleeding attorneys since 2025. Hueston Hennigan Is Paying Out The Big Bucks: Summer bonuses up to $35K! Aging Out Of Life Tenure: The reasons for giving Supreme Court justices...

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 June! This week I’m...

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 June! This week I’m...

If you’re an associate hoping for a little extra spending money this summer, there’s reason for cautious optimism. Another prominent law firm has announced bonuses, becoming the second major firm we’ve seen offer out-of-cycle cash this season. At a minimum, it’s...

Auth. note: Though it was certainly tempting, no artificial intelligence technology was used to create this publication. All appearing em dashes were added by the author — just as nature intended.  Welcome to the sequel to the Legal Tech-to-English Dictionary (2022)....

The New York Times dropped a big one on Sunday. After months of anecdotal reporting — emergency jump teams, “forward this to a friend” recruiting emails, $25,000 signing bonuses, DRAFT watermarks on filed motions — the paper put hard federal employment data behind...

On Friday, a federal judge in DC ordered Donald Trump to take John F. Kennedy’s name out of his filthy mouth. More or less. In a meticulous, 94-page order, Judge Christopher Cooper found that the toadies Trump installed on the Kennedy Center Board might have the legal...

The Chambers-ranked Tax group of one of the Rocky Mountain region’s most preeminent law firms seeks an associate. The ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of experience in a broad range of tax, including partnerships and M&A. The firm pays near Cravath and offers...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. As Winston Taylor, we are centered on a client-first approach and will be working shoulder to shoulder with our clients at the cutting edge of industry and ingenuity. With that common purpose, we are leveraging...

Do you remember your legal writing class? Probably not — the other doctrinals and their associated cold call nightmares probably crowd out the memories of your LW teacher running through how to construct a table of authorities. As it turns out, those were some of the...

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)President Donald Trump insists that personal relationships make all the difference in the world. For example, Trump insisted that Roy Cohn was his “closest friend.” Until Cohn was diagnosed with AIDS. Then, Trump cut Cohn off....

For generations, law firm reputation rested on pedigree. Where you went to school. Who you trained under. Which logo sat on your letterhead. Reputation was earned slowly and spent broadly. Once established, it carried weight long after the original achievement. That...

If The Chambers Are A-Rockin’ Don’t Come A-Knockin’: A federal district court judge was caught having sex in her chambers with a high-ranking police official and then lying about it. judicial complaint. Her fellow judges issued a private reprimand, scrubbing the...

Selendy Gay Springs Money On Their Associates!: This boutique pays out the big bucks! The Climate Scoreboard Is Out!: See where the biggest names in Biglaw rank on climate work. Attempted Swatting At Amy Coney Barrett’s Home: Dangerous time to be a judge. Trump Gets...

Some lawyers are lucky and rarely, if ever, need to deal with clients who do not pay their bills. However, the vast amount of attorneys will invariably face a client that has not paid their bills and seems unlikely to do so in the future. If the matter a lawyer is...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We will continue to promote to both income and equity tiers moving forward. Developing our talent and providing those opportunities earlier contributed to the larger class. It’s been broadly positively...

Something jumped out at me early at the recent LegalTech Connect Law Firm Research & Innovation Conference with the legal research community. Greg Lambert asked how many attendees have encountered partners who don’t know their Westlaw or Lexis passwords. That...

US Attorney Andrew Boutros had a hell of a week. Last Thursday, the head of the Northern District of Illinois announced that he was dismissing all charges against the “Broadview 6,” professing himself to be deeply upset about gross misconduct before the grand jury....

When you’ve finessed an ungodly amount of money from leveraging your position as President of the United States, there’s only one thing to do when you’re caught red-handed tarnishing the legacy of innocent men. Apologize? No, that’s for poors! When push comes to...

It’s high time to reconsider whether the old training by osmosis approach, the learning by hanging around the water cooler notion, is going to work any longer, particularly in the age of AI. You know the argument: let’s get their butts in the office because that’s...

Editor’s note: First in a series. The Litera Foundation knowledge management platform doesn’t just have customers. It has innovators — law firms continually using the system in new ways to enhance client value.  These ground-breaking firms were recently honored in...

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. “Is Trump the President the Framers Feared? The drafters of the...

For years, cities around the world have competed aggressively for the right to host major sporting events based on a familiar promise: economic transformation. The logic sounds straightforward. Bring in a global event, attract millions of visitors, fill hotels and...

There’s a report out from NOTUS this week that Philip Alito, son of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and former Gibson Dunn attorney, has been working at the Treasury Department. But um, no one at Treasury was in a hurry to advertise that fact. “Alito’s employment...

Few things get associates more excited than an unexpected bonus announcement. There’s something about extra money showing up out of cycle that hits differently. One elite firm is handing out spring bonuses that may lead to a hot bonus summer for associates across the...

The Debt We Owe Every meaningful career begins with help we did not earn and often did not fully appreciate. Someone took our call. Someone answered our question. Someone explained the unwritten rule. Someone reviewed our draft. Someone told us the truth, even...

The Trump Organization still hasn’t shipped their promised Trump phone to most customers who laid down a $100 deposit a year ago. But rubes patriots who signed up did get something else instead: their private data leaked to the public. According to Techcrunch, the...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It enables you to do more deals. We do expect a junior would become what we think of now as a mid-level faster. —  Becky Zelenka, co-head of the private funds group at Fried Frank, in comments given to...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to reports, which Biglaw firm is investing $500 million over the next three-to-four years to develop its own proprietary artificial intelligence platform? Hint: While other Biglaw firms are...

This Is Going To Be The Best AI Sleuthing Story You Read Today: Here’s how we figured out Eleanor Ross was the unnamed judge. Todd Blanche Faces NY Bar Complaint: Vindictive prosecution has consequences. Sometimes. Patagonia Takes Pattie Gonia To Court: This IP suit...

For many law school graduates, debt doesn’t just exist on paper—it shows up in large monthly payments. A familiar question has new urgency: how do you manage that level of student loan debt early in your legal career without sacrificing everything else? After years of...

On Tuesday, as Texans headed to the polls to vote in the Republican Senate primary runoff, state Senator Angela Paxton — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s estranged wife, the woman currently divorcing him on “biblical grounds“– put out an endorsement list. She...

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Timing matters. If you’ve been closely following drag queens, outdoor clothing brands, and legal drama involving the two, you may have know that Patagonia launched an IP lawsuit against drag peformer Pattie Gonia back in January. There’s been coverage by those in the...