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Man Accused Of Sending Horrifying Death Threats To Federal Judge Will Face Trial
Threats against federal judges have become an increasingly grim feature of the Trump II era, with jurists facing everything from swatting attempts to death threats for the apparent offense of doing their jobs. Now, one man accused of threatening to murder a federal...
The Supreme Court Justice That Ran A Treason Trial
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 1807, a former vice president stood trial for treason, accused of plotting to carve his own empire out of the western frontier, with the sitting president driving the prosecution and openly...
Schedule A Defendant Succeeds in Vacating Default Under Major 7th Circuit Ruling
"No authoritative case holds that being unable to verify a defendant's address on three search engines—despite the address being verifiable on other popular platforms—constitutes reasonable diligence," wrote U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, of the Northern District of...
Dormant License Plate Reader Law Fuels Surge in Privacy Suits in 1 Major State
There is no current federal law regulating the technology, but Washington, D.C., and two dozen states have laws on the books pertaining to the cameras, according to the New York University Law School's Policing Project. There is no current federal law regulating...
Why Law Firms Don’t Buy Technology, They Buy Trust
The strongest, longest-lasting partnerships were never built because one platform had more features than another. They were built because there was trust. And every relationship I've seen fall apart, even when the technology was solid, came down to that trust breaking...
On LawNext: Alex Su, Newly Named President of Latitude Legal, On Why AI Is Driving Demand for Flex Talent
Call it Alex Su, redux. We do not usually have the same guest on LawNext twice in the same year, but there is good reason to have Alex back, as he has just been named president of Latitude Legal, the flexible legal staffing company. Last February, Alex and I recorded...
How I Made Partner: ‘Being a Good Person and a Good Colleague Goes a Long Way,’ Says Jeff Jay of Freshfields
"Being a good person and a good colleague goes a long way. You're going to need to have people vouching for you who have seen you in action, who know you as a friend, who know that you're there for them and that you'll help them out without expecting anything in...
The Motherhood Penalty, the Daddy Track, and What the Legal Profession Gets Wrong About Parents
Jamie Spannhake | We already knew about the motherhood penalty for lawyers, but what about the daddy track? The ABA's parenthood study offers a roadmap for fixing a faulty structure (and it's not just about childcare). Listen up, law firm leaders! The post The...
RelativityOne Gets A New Name To Reflect Its Increasing Capabilities Around AI and Data
Perhaps it is only fitting that a product launched in the cloud should be renamed for the atmosphere it occupies. The e-discovery company Relativity announced today that it has renamed RelativityOne, its cloud-based platform, as Relativity aiR, giving it the name that...
Live from WIPL with Crystal Wright
Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville. Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.
Critical Mass With Law.com’s Amanda Bronstad: Lawyers Line Up to Object to Roundup Settlement, Texas AG Wins Child Safety Ruling Against TikTok
Attorneys who defended the settlement insisted that it would benefit Roundup plaintiffs with little hope for jury verdicts, particularly after the U.S. Supreme Court's June 25 ruling in a Roundup case gutted their strongest claim. Attorneys who defended the...
New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Resigns After Paying Former Staffer $50K
"I believe this is in the best interests of the New Hampshire Judicial Branch," MacDonald said in his resignation letter to Gov. Kelly Ayotte. "I accept responsibility and accountability for my conduct." "I believe this is in the best interests of the New...
The Apple Watch ‘Always-Listening’ Features Should Worry Every Lawyer, Expert Says
Apple Watch's new "Siri Recap" feature could create serious legal risks, said an eData attorney. Its AI-generated conversation summaries, despite deleting raw audio, could become discoverable evidence, raise wiretap and privacy questions, and complicate...
‘More Than One Cause’ in Ford Transmission Action Sinks Class Certification, Fed. Judge Rules
A federal judge in Chicago looked in part to a divided 2025 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which solidified stringent requirements for class certification in an automotive defect case. A federal judge in Chicago looked in part to...
Former Managing Partner Accused Of Paying For Disney Trips On The Firm’s Dime
Law firm partners are supposed to share profits, not treat the firm’s operating account like a personal piggy bank. Unfortunately, one former managing partner in Illinois is accused of having missed that particular lesson in law firm management. According to a...
The Remote Work Conundrum Redux
The big remote debate. It’s mostly over, right? Most big firms think they have solved the conundrum by summoning lawyers back to the office three, four, or even five days a week. End of discussion. But small-to-midsize firms still struggle with the issue of whether to...
Amy Wax Adds Disbarred Coup Lawyer John Eastman For That ‘Accountability Is Persecution’ Energy
Amy Wax and John Eastman are teaming up! It’s the buddy comedy you never knew you didn’t need at all. Wax continues her fight against the University of Pennsylvania for imposing the barest of minimum sanctions against the professor after years of embarrassing the...
Job Of The Month: Elite Litigation Boutique Partner Opportunity
A Texas-based commercial litigation boutique law firm is seeking a talented litigation Partner with 8-10 years of sophisticated litigation experience to join its nationally recognized Houston office. This role will be a “hands-on” role, with depositions, motion...
The Ninth Circuit Confirms What Should Have Been Self-Evident: A Wager Is A Wager
In late August, the Ninth Circuit issued what should be an obvious ruling: A sports bet remains a sports bet, regardless of what the platform calls it. The fact that this proposition required resolution by a federal appellate court says a great deal about how far...
Biglaw’s $20 Million Partner Paydays Are Getting Out Of Control
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The rules are just flying out the window. — Naomi Kaplan, a Los Angeles-based recruiter, in comments given to Reuters, concerning the eye-popping compensation packages Biglaw firms are using to lure star...
The AI Indemnity Arms Race Is Distracting Us From The Bigger Story
Every few weeks another AI company announces expanded indemnification. One vendor broadens its copyright protections, another updates its enterprise terms, and a third promises to stand behind customers facing intellectual property claims. The headlines practically...
Trump’s Own Justices Are ‘A Shell Of Their Original Selves’ For Not Handing Him The Midterm Election
Donald Trump’s white whale got away again Monday night. In U.S. Postal Service v. California, the Supreme Court denied the administration’s application to stay Judge Indira Talwani’s injunction — the one blocking the USPS rule that would have routed every mail-in...
The Oldest Law Firm In The World
Cadwalader was the oldest American Biglaw firm before merging with Hogan Lovells, but its 1792 founding doesn’t hold a candle to the oldest continuously operating law firm in the world. According to Guinness, what is the oldest firm around, founded in England in 1570?...
Even A Stacked Supreme Court Couldn’t Save Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rule — See Also
Tweedle Dee, Meet Tweedle Dumb: Disbarred John Eastman joining Professor Amy Wax’s legal team as she fights to get out of the sanctions she earned from the University of Pennsylvania. Third Time’s Not The Charm. SCOTUS Won’t Let Trump Seize The Mail-In Vote: When the...
Why Parker Poe Hosted an AI Workshop for General Counsel and Corporate Leaders
The firm paired its own attorneys with in-house heads and other executives to see where AI may change the outside counsel relationship. The firm paired its own attorneys with in-house heads and other executives to see where AI may change the outside counsel...
Plaintiffs Change Approach After Collective Actions Fail in FedEx Overtime Dispute
Will the latest attempt to collect overtime for delivery drivers be a success? Will the latest attempt to collect overtime for delivery drivers be a success?
Clients Don’t Care About Your Law Firm Org Chart
Dave Slovin | Clients experience one firm, and no matter how your business operates behind the scenes, they shouldn’t feel the gaps or seams. The post Clients Don’t Care About Your Law Firm Org Chart appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and...
The Lethal Trifecta: Why AI Tools That Make Outbound Calls Should Worry Every Law Firm
Some AI features are exciting to build and easy to market, but the fact that a feature is technically possible does not mean it is currently safe to deploy at scale, particularly when client confidentiality and firm liability are on the line. Some AI features...
The Global 200: The Top Firms Keep Getting Bigger, Richer, and Harder to Catch
The industry's leaders speak about why the top firms are pulling away from the rest. The industry's leaders speak about why the top firms are pulling away from the rest.
Sustaining Status: These Firms Make Up Big Law’s ‘Global Elite’
If part of being counted among the "global elite" equates to staying power, then these Global 200 firms have provided ample proof that they belong. If part of being counted among the "global elite" equates to staying power, then these Global 200 firms have...
The 2026 Global 200 Ranked by Revenue
The largest 200 law firms in the world had another strong period during the last financial year, driven largely by the top U.S.-based institutions. The largest 200 law firms in the world had another strong period during the last financial year, driven largely by...
Live from WIPL with Alex Davenport
Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville. Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.
Weil Isn’t Even Pretending To Be Sad About Losing Its Most Powerful Partner — See Also
Weil Insiders To Mike Aiello: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! AI Is Now Making Up Witness Testimony: It’s not just fake cites anymore, but fake humans, too! Watch your filings, lest you face a benchslap like this lawyer. A Federal Judge Just Hit Pause On...
Defamation Claims Cleared to Proceed Against Google’s AI Overviews, Federal Judge Rules
"By pointing out that the statements in the AI Overviews are objectively verifiable, Google concedes the very point it is arguing against—the statements are facts," U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin said. "By pointing out that the statements in the AI Overviews...
Mass. Debt Collector Accused of Seizing Cars to Coerce Payment Agrees to AG’s $52M Consumer Relief Settlement
The debt collection and debt buying companies Judgment Acquisitions Unlimited, Champion Funding Inc. and their owner Andrew Metcalf entered into the consent judgment with the office following a February 2024 complaint filed in the Suffolk Superior Court. The...
‘This Settlement Is the Scariest’: Monsanto’s $7.25B Roundup Deal Bombarded by Objectors
Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Timothy Boyer in St. Louis Monday heard from objectors to a $7.25 billion class-action settlement over Monsanto's Roundup pesticide. Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Timothy Boyer in St. Louis Monday heard...
For Most Of Its History, The Supreme Court Was Just A Tenant
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The Supreme Court met in borrowed rooms inside the Capitol, in a private house, and on occasion even in a tavern before the construction of One First Street. In what year did the Supreme Court finally...
Trump’s DOJ Lawyers Leap In To Save Trump’s Personal Lawyers
Eight months after Donald Trump “sued” the IRS and four months after the case was officially dismissed, the agency has finally sauntered into court in Florida to register its objection. Sort of. The only remaining legal question is whether to sanction Trump’s personal...
The AI Workplace Gender Gap In The Legal Profession
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 Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. I live and work in...
Legal Ethics Roundup: Welcome Back! Headlines, Ethics Reforms, Reading Recommendations, Trivia, Events, Jobs & More
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome back! I hope August gave you some time to step away, look up, and enjoy the remains of summer. One of my favorite moments...
People I Never Care To Hear About Again
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)Think about Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer. As far as I can tell, Cohen was an incompetent, a thug, and a criminal who mindlessly supported Trump. Cohen then had a change of heart. He became an incompetent, a thug, and a...
Live from WIPL with Lakeshia Ekeigwe
Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville. Legal Speak, recorded live, from the 2026 Women, Influence and Power in Law Conference in Nashville.
Lawyers Are Even More Miserable Than We Knew
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew. — Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters,...
States Sue to Block New Federal ‘Public Charge’ Rule
New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia argue the DHS rule, set to take effect Sept, 18, unlawfully expands immigration officers' authority to deny green cards and conflicts with longstanding...
Jailhouse (Mis)informants: Paul Shechtman Reviews ‘Catch the Devil’
In what Shechtman calls an "engrossing" new book, author Pamela Colloff examines the historical failures of using jailhouse informants as a prosecutorial tool. In what Shechtman calls an "engrossing" new book, author Pamela Colloff examines the historical...
‘Counsel, Do You Watch The News?’: Lawyer Gets Benchslapped Over AI Hallucinations In Murder Appeal
We’ve officially moved beyond the “ChatGPT made up a few cases” stage of the artificial intelligence ethics crisis. Now, the robots are apparently inventing witnesses and police testimony in murder appeals. Progress! New Mexico attorney Stephen Aarons was held in...
Trump’s Civil Service Loyalty Test Just Hit A Constitutional Road Bump
Donald Trump’s project to remake the federal civil service into something that screens for loyalty just hit a road bump in Massachusetts. On Friday, U.S. District Judge George O’Toole granted three federal-employee unions a stay under Section 705 of the Administrative...
The Cravath Shade Wasn’t A One-Off: Weil Insiders Line Up To Say Good Riddance
When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced that corporate chair Michael Aiello was leaving for what it pointedly called “a smaller platform” (the platform in question being Cravath), it was tempting to read the line as a single flash of pique from a firm caught on the...
AI For New Jersey Public Defenders: Solving The A2J Problem One Bite At A Time
Want to make a dent in the access-to-justice problem? Stop preaching and wringing your hands over how bad it is and start looking for a solution, even if it’s just a start. Which is exactly what the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD) recently did in...
Which AI Product Is Most Popular Among Law Firms? Findings of ILTA’s Tech Survey May Surprise You
At the recent conference of the International Legal Technology Association, the big legal AI vendors CoCounsel, Harvey and Legora had outsized presences, with ginormous booths in the exhibit hall, major-name performers at their parties, and advertising so ubiquitous...
How I Made Law Firm Leadership: ‘Focus on Your People Skills,’ Says Jacqueline Newman of Berkman Bottger
"It is about being creative. It is about having the right team surrounding you and supporting you. The advice I would give to law firm leaders is to focus on your people skills, figure out what is important to each person at your firm, considering the impact (not...
Attorney’s Legal Mal Suit Against NLJ 500 Firms Reinstated by Ill. Appellate Court
The appellate panel said the doctrine of unclean hands does not bar the attorney's malpractice suit because the alleged wrongdoing in an underlying case "had nothing to do with defendants' legal work." The appellate panel said the doctrine of unclean hands does...
Legal AI Needs An Escalation Layer
The most important decision an AI agent makes may be the decision not to decide. As legal AI moves from answering questions to participating in transactions, we need systems that know when to stop, ask for approval, or hand the matter to a human. That sounds obvious....
With Reconciliation Uncertain, Pentagon Eyeing Plan To Retool FY27 Priorities With Congress
The post With Reconciliation Uncertain, Pentagon Eyeing Plan To Retool FY27 Priorities With Congress appeared first on Above the Law.WASHINGTON — If Congress does not pass the full $350 billion reconciliation funding requested by the Pentagon, the department is...
Quantum Computing and the Rise of the “Breachless Data Breach
Quantum computing has the potential to crack today's encryption standards, which means that companies that rely on the encryption of stolen data cannot assume that the data will remain impervious to decryption. Quantum computing has the potential to crack...
This Is How You Build a Book of Business
Jay Harrington | Building a practice is a serious job. Start early, get narrow, experiment, refine, repeat. The post This Is How You Build a Book of Business appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.Newly minted lawyers are starting their...
Morning Docket: 09.14.26
* Looks imminent? Anyone want odds? [Law360] * Deep dive into how the federalist society got us here. [The Atlantic] * How Legora aims to take on legal industry giants. [Business Insider] * ACC going after another in house counsel group accusing them of training on...
‘Have I Captured I Biometric Identifier?’: Privacy Litigators Wait for Answers on Court’s Split
Litigators are watching to see if one case pending in the federal court in Chicago could be the driver in answering whether a biometric identifier must identify a specific person for an individual to have a valid claim under the state's heavily litigated Biometric...
‘Have I Captured a Biometric Identifier?’: Privacy Litigators Wait for Answers on Court’s Split
Litigators are watching to see if one case pending in the federal court in Chicago could be the driver in answering whether a biometric identifier must identify a specific person for an individual to have a valid claim under the state's heavily litigated Biometric...
Missouri Keeps Beating Dead Horse Of A Map — See Generally
If At First The Supreme Court Tells You To Stop: Missouri Republicans keep unsuccessfully sending its gerrymander to the Supreme Court. Try, Try Again: And the Supreme Court keeps telling them to pound sand. Fifty-One Shades Of ‘Rigged’: DOJ and Education Department...
Is This Federal Appellate Opinion Too Informal?
First Circuit Senior Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson is 75 years old, but you wouldn’t know it from this opinion. Channeling her inner Gen Z, Judge Thompson put out a lengthy bankruptcy opinion that took a sledgehammer to the air of formality that’s surrounded legal...
That’s Some Epic Biglaw Shade — See Also
The One Thing Nobody Has Ever Called Cravath… ‘A Smaller Platform’: Until Weil, which just lost its corporate chair to the firm, gave it a shot. Hear Me Out: Should we really care that a federal court opinion reads like Gen Z slang? We Sure Could Use More Human Rights...
She Earned The First Law Degree Ever Given To An American Woman And She Wasn’t Allowed To Use It
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, earning her degree with honors from the institution we now know as Northwestern in 1870? Hint: When she tried to put it to use,...
Trump Ally Stomps Off After Discovering ‘Grand’ Conspiracy Is Actually Mid At Best
Joe diGenova never understood the assignment. The octogenarian former federal prosecutor thought he was being recruited to run the mother of all conspiracy cases and take out every dirty, stinkin’ Democrat at once. He and his wife Victoria Toensing laid it all out in...
The Future Of Legal AI Isn’t About AI
Getty ImagesOne of the most surprising things about AI adoption is how differently similar organizations perform. Two legal departments can deploy the same AI platform, invest similar amounts of money, and give people access to the same capabilities, yet their...
Lawyers Should Abandon Some Outdated Practices
Lawyers are creatures of habit, and the legal profession is not exactly known for embracing change. Indeed, many practices that were commonplace decades ago are still followed by some lawyers even though technological advances have made them unnecessary. In some...
How To Create Authority Pages That Beat Competitors On Google And ChatGPT
Creating authority pages is an essential step for any law firm website. These portions of your website serve as a framework on which to build a digital reputation. They give search engines and AI answer tools the technical cues they need to recognize your content as...
Litigation Trends to Watch: Eli Lilly Comes Out Swinging in Weight Loss Cases. Plus, POWR Act Invoked
Job applicants balk at credit report checks, and consumers not amused by Kennywood fees. Job applicants balk at credit report checks, and consumers not amused by Kennywood fees.
The Best Law Schools For Human Rights Law (2026)
At a time when hard-won discrimination protections in the U.S. are being steadily eroded, we’ve never needed the passion and commitment of young lawyers aspiring to build careers in human rights more than we do today. The National Jurist’s preLaw magazine recently...
Weil’s Corporate Chair Decamps For Cravath, Which Weil Would Like You To Know Is ‘A Smaller Platform’
Michael Aiello, chair of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’s roughly 600-lawyer corporate department, member of its management committee, and a powerhouse in the indistry, is leaving for Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He is not going alone — Aiello is bringing a team of...
9/11 After 25 Years: How the Terrorist Attacks Impacted the Legal Profession
Personal recollections, lasting institutional changes, landmark legal responses and the continuing pursuit of justice reveal how Sept. 11 continues to shape lawyers, law firms and courts a quarter-century later. Personal recollections, lasting institutional...
Biglaw’s First-Year Associate Hiring Plunge May Be Just The Beginning
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The pattern is showing the majority of large firms will have smaller first- and second-year associate populations. The further out I look, the greater the level of uncertainty about what their needs are going...
Judge Accused of Helping Immigrant Escape ICE Custody Reprimanded by Mass. Top Court
The state's top court agreed Judge Shelley Joseph did not know or authorize the defendant's escape from the Newton courthouse in 2018 but said her actions "inadvertently created the appearance of impropriety." The state's top court agreed Judge Shelley Joseph...
Law Firm Disrupted: The Client’s Voice Has More Value Than Ever
Marketing professionals are playing an increasingly vital role in translating it into firm strategy. Marketing professionals are playing an increasingly vital role in translating it into firm strategy.
This Law Professor’s Mission Is Giving Voice To The Voiceless
In this episode, I sit down with Amos Guiora, law professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and director of the Bystander Initiative, to talk about his new book, Enablers: Normalizing the Unimaginable. The conversation traces his path from an...
Kirkland Plots Brussels Competition Push With Eye on Elite Rivals
Kirkland & Ellis is investing heavily in Brussels to build a leading EU antitrust practice that can compete with such practices at Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Latham & Watkins and other top firms. Kirkland & Ellis is investing heavily in Brussels...
Trump Is Considering A Pardon For Michael Cohen, The Lawyer Who Helped Convict Him
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If everything is checking out, it’s something I would consider. I appreciate that at least he came out, although late, he came out and rectified the situation. — President Donald Trump, in comments given to...
DOJ Says Berkeley Law Rigged Its Admissions To Favor Black Students. There Are 51 Of Them.
The Department of Justice and the Department of Education announced Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law spent years discriminating against white and Asian applicants using “race, essay prompts, and other tactics” to tilt admissions...
When Clients Ask About AI, How Should Firms Respond?
The post When Clients Ask About AI, How Should Firms Respond? appeared first on Above the Law.From left, Dennis Garcia of Litera, Donovan Bell of CLOC, and Rahul Chhabra of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.Although today’s legal technology events, above all else,...
How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘Take Chances and Gamble on Yourself,’ Says Vanessa Jackson of Davis Polk
"Professional success requires you to take chances and gamble on yourself—it's important to have the courage to do that. If you're like me and, at earlier points in life, could not have formulated a dream as ambitious as being a law firm partner—let alone a leader of...
‘Even Talking About It Now, It Takes You There’: 9/11 Still Resonates for Legal Community
“It was one of the rare moments where we came together as a country and showed what it is to be an American," James Pizzirusso, of Hausfeld in Washington, D.C., told Law.com. “It was one of the rare moments where we came together as a country and showed what it...
Supreme Court To Missouri Republicans: Shut Up
It took a little under 45 minutes for the United States Supreme Court to tell Missouri Republicans to sit down and shut up. With no noted dissents, SCOTUS stayed the dubious district court order that Republicans hoped might allow them to ramrod a new legislative map...
Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice
There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it’s most known for, it’s the unwillingness to take a loss and move on. That’s...
How Appealing Weekly Roundup
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. “Supreme Court Weighs US Mail Ballot Fight as DOJ Losses Grow”: Zoe...
Inside the Legal Delays That Have Kept the 9/11 Case From Trial
In this episode of Legal Speak, former DOJ National Security Attorney Mike Lebowitz discusses the legal challenges and delays that have kept the case against alleged 9/11 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from going to trial—and what the decades-long legal saga...
Morning Docket: 09.11.26
* Weil corporate chair bolts for Cravath. [Bloomberg Law News] * Sam Bankman-Fried asks Supreme Court for help getting out of jail. [Law360] * Harvard moves up recruiting timeline to allow interviewing in 1L September. [Harvard Crimson] * Joseph diGenova resigns from...
ILTACON Included A Sobering Memorial to 9/11, with Video Interviews Of Some Who Were There (Including Me). Now, ILTA Has Posted the Full Interviews
Wednesday morning’s keynote session at ILTACON this year opened with a sobering and moving 25th anniversary tribute to 9/11. ILTA showed a 30-minute film it produced with interviews of ILTA members and friends who were in Manhattan that day, followed by an extended...
Three Quick Excel Tips for Legal Professionals
Tech Tips: Ben Schorr has three quick, practical Excel tips to clean up legal data and get answers faster—without complicated macros or scary formulas. The post Three Quick Excel Tips for Legal Professionals appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and...
Mike Aiello, Weil Corporate Chair, Plans Exit for Cravath
Cravath confirmed his move on Friday, along with five other Weil M&A partners. Cravath confirmed his move on Friday, along with five other Weil M&A partners.
Forget Buy Vs. Build, It’s All About Law Firm/Tech Partnerships
Iranian Students Prohibited From Taking LSAT Following US-Imposed Sanctions
The U.S. Treasury Department announced the suspension of several general licenses in its Iran Sanctions program, including goods and services offered by the Law School Admission Council. The U.S. Treasury Department announced the suspension of several general...
Once The Second-Biggest Firm In America, Then The First To Blow Up
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Once the second-largest law firm in the country, which New York powerhouse Biglaw firm expanded by poaching rainmakers from rivals, paying partners on what business they brought in rather than...
Even This Supreme Court Wouldn’t Bail Out The Missouri GOP — See Also
Show Me State Got Shown: The U.S. Supreme Court yet again told Missouri Republicans that they need to stop trying to make their illegal map happen. Say Howdy To The New Biggest Firm In Texas: The richest firm in America takes the crown in the Lone Star State. So...
Outgoing Mass. Bar President Vows to Continue Commitment to Judicial Security
Morrison Mahoney partner Michael Hayden may be ending his term as president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, but he says his work is nowhere near done. Morrison Mahoney partner Michael Hayden may be ending his term as president of the Massachusetts Bar...
DLA Piper Adds Boston Insurance Partner Amid Increased Regulatory Scrutiny
Gary Anderson joined the firm at the beginning of September after previously serving as CEO of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from 2024 to 2025. Gary Anderson joined the firm at the beginning of September after previously serving as CEO of...
Todd Blanche’s Latest ‘Disgraceful’ Act? Speaking At A Political Convention
Todd Blanche has been Attorney General for less than a month and he’s already making history, just not the kind that gets you a good entry in the DOJ’s institutional memory. On Wednesday night, Blanche appeared and spoke at the Republican National Midterm Convention...
The Lateral Market Runs On Recruiters. goLateral Wants To Cut Them Out.
If you’re an associate at a top New York law firm, you know the drill: an inbox full of recruiter emails with vague promises about “exclusive opportunities.” By the time you’ve sifted through the vague pitches and tracked down the roles that might actually interest...
Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Including Kirkland’s Biglaw Empire
Everything’s bigger in Texas, and Kirkland & Ellis just proved that the saying applies to Biglaw offices, too. Kirkland has officially become the largest law firm in the Lone Star State, with its Texas headcount soaring to 549 lawyers. With its lightning speed...
AI Has Entered The Courthouse…Are You Ready For It?
The post AI Has Entered The Courthouse…Are You Ready For It? appeared first on Above the Law.The post AI Has Entered The Courthouse…Are You Ready For It? appeared first on Above the Law.
Who Invented Labor Day?
Labor Day – a U.S. federal holiday celebrated on the first Monday in September – is associated with the unofficial end of summer vacation and BBQ parties. While the origin of Labor Day in the United States is associated with labor unions, there is a dispute as to who...