The post How A New Pentagon Memo ‘Resets’ Industry Requirements, Plus Highlights From TechNet appeared first on Above the Law. In this week’s episode of The Break Out, a reorients data disclosure guidance for Pentagon contractors, but it also raises several key...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Our critics are comparing this settlement to the irrational hope of breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster. For the actual claims in this case, the DOJ and settling states got as much or more as they could...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Read The Shadow Docket To Filth: A blistering dissent on the ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’ the Court keeps building for election challengers. Clarence Thomas And Ted Cruz Spend A Podcast Agreeing That Ethics Questions Are A Grave Injustice: The on-air...

As Lyle Lanley might say, a law firm with AI is a little like the mule with a spinning wheel — no one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it. Firms are falling all over themselves to be able to tell the world they have cutting edge AI capabilities,...

Justice Clarence Thomas does not do podcasts, or, really, much media of any kind. So it was a small event when he turned up this week on “Verdict with Ted Cruz” — a rare sit-down, timed with all the coincidence of a book launch — and thanked a sitting United States...

The post Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder And Legal AI Pioneer, Joins Clio To Lead Its Expansion Into The Judiciary appeared first on Above the Law.Pablo Arredondo, the Casetext cofounder who helped build some of the earliest and most influential applications of AI...

Some of the most important evidence in a personal injury case can disappear before the injured person has even hired a lawyer. That sounds dramatic. It isn’t. The camera at the gas station doesn’t know there’s going to be a lawsuit. Neither does the dashcam in the...

Ed. note: Second in a series. Read the first installment here. AI has made legal work faster in many cases, but on the most complex, high-stakes matters, speed can disappear. The reason is that most AI tools are probabilistic and are simply predicting a likely answer....

We’re kicking off another packed agenda at the 46th annual ILTACON today. With dozens of sponsors, more than 80 panels and educational sessions, countless activities, and a stacked agenda, this year is sure to show just how the legal tech world is growing. As ILTA CEO...

The shadow docket strikes again. Yesterday, in an unsigned per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration an emergency stay letting it move forward with the president’s March executive order overhauling how mail-in ballots get administered — the...

There are Supreme Court collectibles, and then there’s this delightful little piece of SCOTUS history. A holiday card featuring the late Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor — styled as “The Supremes,” naturally — is heading to auction through Nate D....

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)The pandemic was good for at least one thing: It prompted some old law school buddies and me to begin meeting occasionally by Zoom. Although the pandemic has ended, the calls have not.   One of those calls prompted today’s column. A...

For years, contracts and product documentation lived in separate worlds. If you wanted to understand how software actually worked, you talked to the product team, read the technical documentation, or sat through a product demo. If you wanted to understand the legal...

The scope of judicial immunity is broad, but, alas, it is not “handcuff-a-child-and-subject-them-to-a-live-streamed-show-trial-while-threatening-to-send-them-to-juvenile-hall-for-falling-asleep-on-a-field-trip” broad. That’s the takeaway from the Sixth Circuit’s...

* Supreme Court uses shadow docket to lift injunction against Trump proposal to use Post Office to block votes from states that Trump doesn’t approve. The majority ruled the injunction premature because the Post Office hadn’t issued a final rule yet. The Post Office...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Connecting in-person with our clients and our colleagues is a core value of our firm’s culture. Our policy that attorneys and staff are either connecting in person with our clients, representing our clients in...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the first Black woman ever to serve as a federal judge? She argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and won nine of them — a record most advocates would kill for — while helping dismantle...

Milbank’s banner year rolls on. The firm rewrote Biglaw’s salary scale in June, stacked special summer bonuses on top, and waved its incoming class in early because business was too good to wait. The latest chapter in Milbank’s 2026 is its arrival in Chicago. The firm...

We have some truly tragic news to report out of California, where a longtime federal prosecutor who twice served as acting U.S. attorney has passed away. Andrew Haden, 48, was found dead last week inside a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building in...

For years, legal departments drew a circle around what they did and what they outsourced to law firms. What remained inside the circle? A relatively small fraction of the in-house team’s total workload. Now the in-house circle is expanding, catalyzed by AI driving an...

Attorney General Todd Blanche has been in the big chair for all of two weeks, and his Justice Department is already back on its bullshit. This time the target is a familiar one: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the government deported to El Salvador by mistake,...

For the past year, the technology hype cycle belongs to “agentic” AI. Is it different than the AI chatbots that dominated the previous few years? It depends on how you look at it. The agentic pitch is that users can outsource more of mental drudgery to the AI because...

The 46th annual ILTACON is officially underway! During the past several decades, it has grown from a few lawyers in a meeting room to a major event. As ILTA CEO Joy Heath Rush recently joked in an ATL interview, the organization may need to build new hotel rooms to...

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers say their client can’t be tried for murder now that he’s pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges. At issue is a voluntary admission that his stalking led to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which is not an element of...

The post This Week In Epic News: FTC Probe, AI Agents & More appeared first on Above the Law.This week was a big one for Epic — the EHR giant hosted its annual conference at its headquarters in Wisconsin, even after it found itself in the Federal Trade...

* John Roberts lets Trump continue spending millions and destroying national monuments without oversight. [NPR] * Courts continue ping-pong game about college athletic eligibility. [ESPN] * Second Circuit rejects fake US Attorney effort. [Courthouse News Service] *...

A federal grand jury in Nashville indicted a former Assistant U.S. Attorney on August 19. The underlying criminal complaint — filed under seal on July 30 and unsealed Thursday claims former federal prosecutor Alexander Strohmeyer threatened to murder his former bosses...

Expertly Flawed: An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, “show how 3M is 0% at fault.” Plaintiffs’ counsel turned the resulting 350-page prompt log into the deposition of a lifetime. Barbarians Inside The Gate: Wood Smith Henning & Berman...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. You’re looking at a significant increase over multiple years. It means you have hyper competition to get into law school. — Mike Spivey, law school admissions consultant with Spivey Consulting, in comments...

It is pretty common for partners at law firms to take summer vacations. Partners may have more control over their schedules than other attorneys, and after spending decades building a practice, they have usually earned the ability to disappear for a week or two...

The post Estonian Lawmaker Calls US Questionnaire To NATO ‘Unnecessary Stress Test’ appeared first on Above the Law.MILAN — A Pentagon questionnaire sent to NATO allies to assess their support for the US administration has ruffled some feathers in Europe, with a...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), adapted to provide direct answers to users’ questions, has led to an interest in GEO (generative engine optimization) that corresponds to and closely parallels the more established practices of SEO (search...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Supreme Court nominee was already serving as chief justice — installed by George Washington during a Senate recess and presiding over a full term — when the Senate came back, took up his...

While The Rest Of Biglaw Waits On Cravath, McKool Smith Just Matched Milbank: The Texas trial powerhouse is raising associate salaries $10K to $20K — effective January 1. The ‘Kool’ kids always come through eventually. Crim Law Lessons Start Early: Penn State frat...

While The Rest Of Biglaw Waits On Cravath, McKool Smith Just Matched Milbank: The Texas trial powerhouse is raising associate salaries $10K to $20K — effective January 1. The ‘Kool’ kids always come through eventually. Crim Law Lessons Start Early: Penn State frat...

Judge Roy Altman of the Southern District of Florida maintains a side gig using his chambers to hop on podcasts with anti-Islam groups to refer to a keffiyeh as a “terror scarf,” and peddle conspiracy theories about Muslims taking over the media. Now there’s a...

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. With that in mind, an attorney in India sought and secured an adjournment following a surprise bar association loss. Shock due to losing bar election is a novel ground for adjournment. We learn something new every day....

Private Equity’s Law Firm Takeover Isn’t Here, But It Just Got A Lot Closer: The reported $700 million Charlesbank deal for Wood Smith Henning & Berman gives PE a toehold in the industry. Todd Blanche’s Potential Successor Has A Slush Fund Problem Too: The Senate...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. He really enjoyed driving, so the restrictions today’s justices are subject to would have frustrated him. — Christopher Scalia, one of the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s nine children, in comments given to the...

Our justice system is under assault. The offender? Artificial intelligence (AI). Courts are struggling to adapt to the rapid pace of technological advancement, as lawyers and litigants increasingly rely on AI tools to support their cases.  The challenges presented by...

Todd Blanche has been Attorney General for two weeks and already the DOJ’s next confirmation battle is taking shape… and it has a very familiar problem at its center. Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter is reportedly the frontrunner for Blanche’s old job,...

Start With the Question That Matters Most Many lawyers tell me they want to write a book. Fewer actually write one. Fewer still stop before they begin and ask the question that probably matters most: Why do I want to do this? If the answer is money, I would...

The post Law Practice Management Company Smokeball Unveils New Global Brand Built Around ‘Powering People-Law’ appeared first on Above the Law.Did you know that the law practice management company Smokeball is named for a famous court case — Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke...

Todd Blanche and Donald Trump (Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty Images)Would it make sense for law schools to teach the basics of neuroscience? Why not? Or a required course for lawyers to satisfy the CLE competency requirement? Since much of what lawyers do in...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! A U.S. Senator from Nebraska took to the airwaves in 1970 to defend which Supreme Court nominee that critics had branded intellectually undistinguished? The strategy, such as it was, was to concede the...