Investigative journalism always mattered, but it feels as though trailblazing journalists matter more these days. With the Department of Justice being run as a concierge service to shakedown the president’s enemies, and traditional journalism outfits like CBS News...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which lawyer argued well over 150 cases before the Supreme Court and shaped the foundations of American constitutional law right from the lectern while simultaneously serving in Congress? A later chief...

Paul, Weiss announced Tuesday that it has enhanced its private equity capabilities with six new lawyers: private equity co-head Christopher Machera, private equity M&A partner Timothy Burns, tax partner Noah Beck, executive compensation partner Amanda Rotkel, and...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There’s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using ​AI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it. — AI at Berkeley Law, a...

Late last week, President Donald Trump abruptly banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico reporters from the White House because he didn’t like their unfavorable (in other words, accurate) coverage. All three news outlets immediately sued on First Amendment grounds to get...

Women lawyers have been getting unsolicited wardrobe advice from law schools⁠, bar associations⁠, and judges for years. This time, the offending garment was a gray J.Crew shift dress. The scandalous detail that may leave you clutching your pearls? It had no sleeves....

More fallout from the big Weil departures. Joe and Kathryn talk about balancing business and why “values” is not necessarily the corporate speak language law firms should adopt all the time. Plus new speculation that Weil is considering merger partners — has the music...

The White House spent the first two days of this week explaining why banning three news organizations from the building isn’t a First Amendment problem. This afternoon, it has to explain that to a federal judge instead. MS NOW got the talking points the White House...

Getty ImagesEvery lawyer who reads legal industry news knows what happens when AI errors show up in a court filing. A New York lawyer asked ChatGPT to confirm that six cases were real. It said yes. All six were fake, with invented docket numbers and quotations to...

When we last caught up with Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the Eastern District of Michigan, his drunken-driving escapade had ended with a no contest plea and probation, but he still had a judicial misconduct complaint hanging over his head. That matter has now been...

(image via Getty)When a draft tax return is released, normally it draws little attention, even from full-time tax-return preparers. Perhaps the one exception was in 2018 when the tax return was shortened to two one-half pages. While most people probably appreciated...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I view dissent as more than just a disagreement with the outcome of a case, I see them as an expression of faith in the future and a demonstration of hope. However desolate the moment feels, we who write for a...

“Any confusion stems from the last-minute decision by a state court to switch the congressional map.” That’s the Eighth Circuit, lying in a per curiam opinion filed Monday night. In reality, the “confusion” was created by a scheme laid out by Missouri Republicans to...

* Brett Kavanaugh testily demands answers in the Missouri gerrymander case he’s killed twice already. [NY Times] * “Judge dismisses suit claiming James Cameron misappropriated likeness of actress for ‘Avatar.'” I’ll say it, he hasn’t made a good movie since Terminator...

(Image via Getty)Toward the end of summer, I presented Part I of my second written interview with Ethan Madore, 7Sage’s coordinator of their law school admissions consulting program. That column presented his answer to the first of my three questions and focused on...

J. Michael Luttig — the retired Fourth Circuit judge, George H.W. Bush appointee, the one time feeder-judge-to-the-conservative-legal-movement, and the man who advised Mike Pence that he had no authority to throw out the 2020 election — sat down with Nicolle Wallace...

The post Last Week Came OpenAI’s Launch Into Legal, Now Come The Litany Of Vendor Integrations appeared first on Above the Law.Yesterday, OpenAI released Astra for Law, a GPT-6 model tailored for legal work, as I reported here. The announcement included news of 26 new...

Law firms have spent years warning clients about the dangers of cyberattacks. Unfortunately, hackers seem to have decided that the firms themselves make far more interesting targets. As reported by Reuters, Greenberg Traurig is now facing two proposed class actions...

Gavin Newsom signed AB 2305 on Sunday, which means California now has a blunt statutory answer to the question of what private equity is allowed to do once it has bought its way into a law firm’s back office. The law bars business entities from interfering with or...

Back in the 90s, when I was dating around, I was never all that thrilled about walking into smoky bars and feeling like I had to drink just to build up the gumption to approach a stranger. Did I do it? Sure. Did it work? Sometimes. Was it my favorite way to meet...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Today, anyone accused of a crime who can’t afford a lawyer is entitled to one at public expense. Who invented the concept of a public defender, a salaried government attorney to defend the poor built...

‘The Law Is On Our Side Across The Board’: Ted Boutrous would know, he helped build it. After A Run Of Defections, Weil Is Reportedly Thinking About A Merger: That is one way the accelerate the firm’s growth. Google’s Defamation Defense: Relax, nobody believes our AI...

Someone Googled “Jimmy Keene net worth,” hoping to figure out how much money the author, TV producer, and former FBI informant has tucked away after his memoir became Apple TV’s Black Bird. Google’s AI Overview explained that Keene was “serving a life sentence without...

Conservative justices have spent years at war with two words. I know you’re thinking it’s something like “equal protection” or “reproductive rights,” or “basic ethics,” but let’s be serious — they already won those wars. The two words that get the conservatives riled...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has conducted a criminal trial exactly once — sitting not as an appeals court but as the trial court itself, with the justices weighing the evidence...

Viewed in context, the above violations of [Supreme Court lawyer Thomas] Goldstein’s rights were part and parcel of the government’s litigation strategy—not mistakes. Indeed, prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings below: shifting its theory...

When Michael Aiello and a handful of his M&A partners left Weil, Gotshal & Manges for what the firm memorably called “a smaller platform,” And by that, they meant… Cravath. Weil said it would respond by hitting the gas. The firm “has long believed that an...

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico sued the President on Monday over the revocation of their White House credentials. Ted Boutrous, Katie Townsend, and Connor Sullivan of Gibson Dunn are leading the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against...

As part of the Legal Marketing Association’s (LMA’s) partnership with Above the Law, we round up insights and intel from Strategies & Voices, LMA’s official online publication dedicated to the craft of legal marketing. This edition offers takeaways from the LMA...

Mike Pence gave up a fair amount to help Donald Trump. Pence was a relatively successful guy. He’d served in the House of Representatives for more than a decade. He’d been the governor of Indiana. He had a reputation for being a devout Christian. Pence served Trump...

Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Happy Monday! Summer is over, but I’m still chasing sunsets on the weekends. Any guesses about where I found this one? I’m also...

* Trump claims that the new arch he’s been planning is necessary for national security now that he knows courts are dumb enough to rubberstamp that. [NY Times] * Law schools continue to struggle with AI. How much do professors hate in-person exams that they’re still...

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We spend as a nation five cents on civics education and $50 on STEM education per student. That difference is dramatic, and the lack of quality in our teaching of civics education has been proven by every...

Everyone in Missouri understands that this game of election map tractor chicken is over. The Supreme Court has told elected officials twice to quit screwing around and run the midterms with the old maps. But the Eighth Circuit is still trying to copulate with that...

Young lawyers are apparently a disaster. They have to be coddled. They can’t think. They are lazy and don’t want to work. They need constant feedback. We’ve all heard it: if they’re left alone for more than 20 minutes, they will wander into traffic while staring at...

Here’s a compliance issue almost nobody in legal marketing is talking about: Your AI app may not reflect your state bar’s advertising rules. In this episode of “Adventures in Legal Tech,” David Arato, founder of Lexicon Legal Content, joins host Jared Correia to...

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. “Montana Ban Would Strike at Political Spending, and the Supreme Court; A...

In a recent conversation with consultant and author Cheryl Donaldson, I explored a challenge that is becoming impossible for law firms to ignore: young, talented lawyers are more willing than ever to walk out the door if the culture doesn’t work for them. What Cheryl...

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which prominent 19th-century lawyer — and one of the most notorious politicians of the Civil War era — was defending a man accused of murder, arguing that the victim had actually shot himself by...