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In-House Lawyers: Who You Gonna Call?
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Meet Me At ILTACON: Ajax, An Intelligent Timekeeper That Adapts To Your Existing Workflow
Jack Weinberger, Ajax Co-Founder Lawyers know the feeling well: “I know I’ve worked much more than I billed this week.” Enter Ajax, an AI timekeeping platform built for law firms. It runs in the background, automatically capturing billable work across email, calls,...
In-House Leaders Say Lawyers At These Biglaw Firms Are Client Service ‘All-Stars’ (2026)
Which Biglaw attorneys are most beloved by general counsel for their superior client service? Thanks to a new ranking, we’re about to find out. The BTI Consulting Group set out to find which lawyers handled in-house client service with ease, adding them to...
The Trump Administration Says The Names Of The People Who Wrote The Biglaw Executive Orders Are A Secret
A federal judge asked the Trump administration a simple question: who drafted, reviewed, and approved the executive orders targeting Biglaw firms? You know the kind of basic information that appears on privilege logs every single day. Not the internal communications,...
Biglaw Revenue Jumps Double Digits As Demand Remains Strong
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We anticipate it is going to be a strong year for the industry despite the expense pressures. Early indications suggest demand continues to be strong in the third quarter as well. — Daniel Greenfield, a...
Having Already Launched A Claude Connector, Trellis Extends AI Access To Its Court Data With ChatGPT Plugin And Its Own Chat Tool
The post Having Already Launched A Claude Connector, Trellis Extends AI Access To Its Court Data With ChatGPT Plugin And Its Own Chat Tool appeared first on Above the Law.Trellis, a legal research company that provides state trial court data and insights, has expanded...
The Most Famous Line About Grand Juries Came Back To Bite Its Author
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who is the chief judge of New York’s highest court (and a onetime rising political star some pegged as a future governor) who gave the American legal lexicon one of its most enduring lines: that a...
Expert Has ChatGPT Write Report. That Was A… Poor Decision — See Also
The Defense Calls ChatGPT: An expert used ChatGPT to draft “90 to 85” percent of his report. The plaintiffs’ attorney had a deposition for the ages on that one. The Most Closely Guarded Secret In The Biglaw EO Case Is Who Wrote The Orders: A government proud enough...
Florida Bar Sued by Morgan & Morgan
Morgan & Morgan's lawsuit alleges that The Florida Bar's rule barring any non-client celebrity's image or voice in firm marketing is the most restrictive in the nation. Morgan & Morgan's lawsuit alleges that The Florida Bar's rule barring any non-client...
Be a Powerful Post-it Note Professional
Analog Attorney | We all know Post-its. But what about all the other sticky notes? You have to drill deep before you find options that belong in a law firm. Here are five that’ll stick with you. (This pun will never die.) The post Be a Powerful Post-it Note...
Northwestern Law, PLI Collaborate to Create Training Resource Targeting AI Skills, Ethics
Northwestern Law and the Practising Law Institute launched a free, 12-module course open to all law students and legal professionals to teach about AI uses, best practices and risks. Northwestern Law and the Practising Law Institute launched a free, 12-module...
Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis: The FTC Targets ‘Suppression of Accuracy’ In AI Systems, Catching Companies in a Classical Conundrum for the Modern Age
Can a servant serve two masters? If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gets its way, when it comes to AI outputs, increasingly not. Can a servant serve two masters? If the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gets its way, when it comes to AI outputs, increasingly...
Meta Sued Over Assertions That AI Designs Serve ‘National Interest’
A manager at Meta alleges that the company fired him after he refused to sign off on a statement for an immigration petition that appeared to misstate his role in the company, The plaintiff alleges that Meta used immigration support as an employment-related benefit...
Clio Docket Is Now In Clio Work, Combining An AI Workspace with Access to More Than 1 Billion Court Filings
When Clio acquired vLex in 2025, a key asset it gained was Docket Alarm, one of the world’s largest litigation databases containing more than 1 billion filings from federal and state courts. At the ClioCon user conference last year, Clio relaunched it as Clio Docket....
Eighth Circuit: Remote Worker Could Not Bring Claims Under Minnesota Whistleblower Act or the Whistleblower Act of the State Where They Worked
The Eighth Circuit ruled that a remote worker in Hawaii could not bring whistleblower claims under either Minnesota's or Hawaii's whistleblower protection acts—finding he lacked sufficient physical presence in Minnesota to qualify as an employee under that state's...
AI-Assisted Patent Drafting: Validity Concerns and Practical Guidance
This is the second installment in a two-part series examining the implications of using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications. In this part, we address the potential impact of drafting a patent application with...
Build Now, Accommodate Later Doesn’t Work: Eighth Circuit Rejects ADA Defense to Zoning Violation
A Minnesota county lawfully denied an after-the-fact permit for an unpermitted concrete boat ramp where the landowners raised ADA accommodation only after violating zoning requirements, as Title II's duty to accommodate attaches when the entity learns of the need...
‘Make the First and Last Client of the Day Yourself’: London’s Top Partners on Tackling Stress in Big Law
Partners share the activities they do to manage stress and anxiety, and lift the lid on the institutional barriers to healthy work cultures. Partners share the activities they do to manage stress and anxiety, and lift the lid on the institutional barriers to...
AI Is Changing Client Acquisition: Lawyers Must Go Where the Questions Are
Wayne Hassay | Currently, much of the legal profession’s AI focus concerns what happens after the work reaches the lawyer. Something that merits more attention is how AI is poised to change client acquisition. The post AI Is Changing Client Acquisition: Lawyers Must...
Lawyer Disbarred After Suggesting Colleague Be Sent To ‘Mental Asylum’
A barrister just earned the professional boot, and based on the findings, thinking a colleague should be committed is one of the least problematic allegations. The Independent shared a report on Mariam El-Sobky, until recently a Lincoln’s Inn barrister, who made...
Karmic Turnaround For Disbarred Lawyer — See Also
Mental Health Quip Ends With Mental Health Eval: After mocking a former colleague’s mental health, disciplinary authorities say disbarred lawyer needs a psych review. Sigal Chattah’s Federal Prosecutor Cosplay Doesn’t Survive Appeal Either: A unanimous Ninth Circuit...
The Justice’s Name Came Off The Door, But The Biglaw Firm Is Still A Powerhouse.
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Before Abe Fortas became the only Supreme Court justice ever driven from the bench by scandal (and years after he argued the landmark right-to-counsel case Gideon v. Wainwright), he co-founded which...
Justice Clarence Thomas Says He’s Not Welcome At Stanford Law, But The School Says Otherwise
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We would be honored to host Justice Thomas at Stanford Law School. The Stanford Constitutional Law Center, directed by professor Michael McConnell, former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...
Even Trump’s Own Judges Agree: Sigal Chattah Isn’t A Real U.S. Attorney
There are questions in American law that divide judges along ideological lines. Whether Sigal Chattah gets to keep playing dress-up as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada is, it turns out, not one of them. Today, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit...
Dharshi Harindra Is Right: AI Doesn’t Replace Judgment. It Exposes It.
If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn over the past year, you’ve almost certainly seen the slogan: “AI won’t replace lawyers. Lawyers who use AI will.” It’s become the legal profession’s favorite reassurance because it sounds optimistic, practical, and actionable. The...
The Catering Caper: A Loaf On The Move
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)President Donald Trump left the NATO summit last month in an unusual way: He did not board the new Qatari Air Force One, instead publicly boarded an old version of Air Force One, and then snuck off that plane on a catering delivery...
Mass. Mayor Charged With Pandemic Loan Fraud, Money Laundering
Federal prosecutors allege the Lawrence mayor used over $1.5 million in pandemic loan assistance for professional and personal use, including over $40,000 for his mayoral campaign and more than $880,000 of the funds to pay off debts to hard money...
Growing Skepticism of Schedule A Practices in Northern Illinois District Court, Experts Say
In light of the recent Kangol ruling that shook up Schedule A litigation, courts are beginning to wrestle with what actions fulfill the reasonable diligence requirement in determining a Chinese defendant's mailing address before electronic service can be...
A Tribute, Or A Tactic? The Lindsay Clancy Prosecutor’s Hair Bows Could Backfire
The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused of strangling her three children, has gripped the nation. Social media has been filled with true crime sleuths at home finding alternate theories of the case and postpartum advocates pointing out the ways the system failed...
Why Britney Spears, FKA Twigs, And Selena Gomez All Trust The Same Biglaw Lawyer
Britney Spears. FKA twigs. Selena Gomez. These are three extraordinarily powerful women who could hire virtually any lawyer in the country, yet when faced with deeply personal legal battles unfolding under intense public scrutiny, they have all turned to the same...
ILTACON Preview: What These Tech Leaders Expect To See
With technology continuing to drive massive disruption in the legal industry, anticipation for ILTACON 2026 is higher than ever. Here’s what a few attendees are expecting in advance of the massive legal tech conference, set for the week of Aug. 23 in Nashville. How...
Supreme Court Kills Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Rehearing Request
The Supreme Court isn’t in the business of granting rehearings and it’s very much not in the business of changing its decisions upon rehearings. But Donald Trump has made a practice of refusing to take no for an answer and, in that spirit, he asked the Supreme Court...
Troutman Hires New Partner of Bankruptcy, Restructuring Practice Group in Boston
Massachusetts native Sean Higgins joined the firm's Boston office at the beginning of August as it expands its bankruptcy and restructuring platform. Massachusetts native Sean Higgins joined the firm's Boston office at the beginning of August as it expands its...
Lawyers Should Think Twice Before CCing Bosses To An Email
Email is one of the most important ways lawyers communicate with colleagues, adversaries, clients, and pretty much everyone else involved in the legal profession. Most lawyers probably send dozens, if not hundreds, of emails during a typical workday. Because email is...
The Temptation And Corruption Of Andrew Boutros
Another day, another wild story about corruption at the US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Illinois. The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush reports that prosecutors at the formerly august institution spent the past year harassing the family of a state judge in...
Beyond Recall And Precision: Strategic Oversight Of AI Managed Review
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way legal teams approach document review. With the ability to analyze enormous volumes of information at speeds that traditional review methods simply cannot match, AI has created significant opportunities to reduce costs,...
How I Made Law Firm Leadership: ‘Lead the Whole Firm, Not Just the Lawyers,’ Says Tom Krider of Smith Currie Oles
"When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to lead the whole firm, not just the lawyers, and the only way to do that is to have built some real fluency in how the business actually runs." "When you get to a leadership role, you have to be able to...
AEIOU: A Framework for Business Plans That Attorneys Will Actually Use
Most attorney business plans fail before they're written. They fail in the design of the exercise and nine months later, the plan is a forgotten file on a shared drive, and marketing is drafting the same template for next year's cycle. AEIOU (Audit, Embed Experience,...
Biglaw’s NDA Problem Is Heading To Prestige TV
Paramount+ has handed out a straight-to-series order for Discretion, an eight-episode legal thriller from A24 with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning starring and executive producing. Kidman plays Sharon, the commanding senior partner. Fanning plays Lenny, the summer...
After a Funding Round: Refocusing Your Patent Strategy
A funding event changes expectations instantly. The company that pitched a bold vision is now expected to execute, scale, and defend itself under heightened investor and market scrutiny. A post-round reassessment helps ensure the patents protecting your technology and...
PTC Therapeutics’ $211M Bid Wins Bankruptcy Auction For Sangamo Gene Therapy
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Work Done In Harvey Now Creates Time Entries In Aderant’s iTimekeep, Thanks To New Integration
Perform legal work in Harvey, get a draft time entry created automatically in Aderant’s iTimekeep. That is the upshot of a integration announced today by the two companies. With the integration, law firms that are customers of both Harvey and iTimekeep can connect the...
Morning Docket: 08.17.26
* Trump’s legal team at S&C just keeps shrinking. [Politico] * Armed men claiming to be ICE agents try to bust into immigration law firm. [Sacramento Bee] * Already facing ethical questions, the Chicago US Attorney’s Office now revealed to have been running...
DWF is First Global 200 Firm to Shutter Riyadh After Saudi Relaxes Rules for Foreign Ownership
The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023. The U.K. firm is the first to shut its Riyadh office since Saudi Arabia opened its legal sector to foreign firms in 2023.
Do You Have to Pay In to the Fund? Grammar Rules Govern Two More Opinions (Supposedly)
Teddy Snyder | In the latest examples of grammar rules governing court opinions, a verb becomes an adjective, and a preposition is at issue. Get to the Point! The post Do You Have to Pay In to the Fund? Grammar Rules Govern Two More Opinions (Supposedly) appeared...
Don’t Put Secret AI Instructions In Court Filings! But Also… Why Are We Worried About This?
A court employee in Connecticut noticed an unusual stretch of white space in a filing. Upon closer inspection, the “nothing” turned out to be 3-point, white-on-white text. It would be invisible to any human casually reading reading the page, but perfectly legible to...
Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Stalking, Admits To Murder Anyway, Argues This Makes Trial Double Jeopardy
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom earlier today to plead guilty to interstate stalking charges. In the process, he admitted that he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, stating “on the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in...
Vances Learn That If You’re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You — See Generally
Yale Law Cool Kids’ Chat: JD and Usha Vance’s law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple’s improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty. Mangione Tries For Double Jeopardy Where The Scores Can Really...
Uber’s Lawyers Face Hate Mail, Violent Graphics: ‘My Colleagues Are Getting Death Threats’
Uber attorney Allison Brown told U.S. District Judge Charles on Friday that her colleagues had received threatening emails after The New York Times published an Aug. 4 article called, “Uber's Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: What Were You...
Biglaw Partner Dishes On Her Unique Path To Partnership
Gloria Park always wanted to be a storyteller. She just didn’t expect to find that career in litigation. In this episode, the Susman Godfrey partner talks about growing up in a first-generation immigrant family, choosing law school because it let her “tell stories for...
ABA Plans Major Restructuring Amid Financial Struggles
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. That’s a big undertaking because we haven’t looked at renovating how we are structured for 40 or 50 years. We need to move into the 21st century. — Barbara Howard, president of the American Bar Association, in...
Dark Social For Lawyers: How To Track What You Can’t See
“Dark social” can easily conjure images of sinister figures holding clandestine meetings by dead of night. As dramatic as the term sounds, the reality is far more mundane. Dark social is a catchall term for the many digital communication tools that are intended for...
Congress Threw This Judge Off The Bench. The Voters Sent Him Right Back To Congress.
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which federal judge, impeached by the House and removed by the Senate for his role in a bribery scheme, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives three years later (the very chamber that had...
Trump DOJ Uses Luigi Mangione Case To Spite Manhattan DA — See Also
Double Jeopardy Mushroom: The DOJ works out interstate stalking plea deal with Luigi Mangione so his lawyers can claim New York murder charges amount to double jeopardy. Nicole Kidman Is About To Play The Biglaw NDA Machine: A new Kidman-Fanning legal thriller...
Litigation Trends to Watch: Claims Surge Over Tariff Refunds, Weight Loss Drugs and Texas Property Appraisals
Amazon received $600 million in tariff refunds—now customers are suing to get their share. Amazon received $600 million in tariff refunds—now customers are suing to get their share.
From Big Law to Horse Law: Building a Niche Practice at Holland & Knight
In this week's episode, Holland & Knight partner Kayla Pragid discusses the business of building a niche practice within an Am Law 100 firm. In this week's episode, Holland & Knight partner Kayla Pragid discusses the business of building a niche practice...
Mass. Parole Board Nominee Permitted Despite Backlash, New Judges Unanimously Approved
The Massachusetts Governor's Council unanimously approved two judges to its courts Wednesday, but a parole board nominee faced backlash for her previous work as a prosecutor. The Massachusetts Governor's Council unanimously approved two judges to its courts...
What Might Trigger EEOC Action? Regulator’s Suit Claims DEI Training Segregated Employees
The EEOC sued Washington University after it fired a Black woman employee who was terminated after raising objections to the administration about a DEI training session where white and nonwhite employees were separated. The EEOC sued Washington University after...
How I Made Partner: ‘Relationship-Building, Visibility and Sound Judgment,’ Says Mitch Schuster of Meister Seelig & Schuster
"One of the most common mistakes attorneys make is focusing exclusively on the work directly in front of them without thinking strategically about their long-term career. Strong legal skills are essential, but advancement inside a law firm also requires...
Your Digital First Impression: What Every Law Firm Should Get Right
A modern, high-performing website, targeted search ads, and review automation work together to build trust and turn online interest into new law firm clients. The post Your Digital First Impression: What Every Law Firm Should Get Right appeared first on Articles, Tips...
Create Interactive Dashboards With Microsoft Copilot
Tech Tips: Ben Schorr explains how legal teams can use Microsoft 365 Copilot to find the story inside lists spreadsheets, and document libraries. The post Create Interactive Dashboards With Microsoft Copilot appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and...
Allens and Ashurst Deny They “Provided Cover” For KPMG Ethical Failures
Allens and Ashurst partners reject allegations they gave KPMG cover for misconduct, as Australian senators question the narrow scope of their legal reviews and the firms' handling of the audit scandal. Allens and Ashurst partners reject allegations they gave...
Law Firm Disrupted: Closing the ‘Human Skill’ Gap in the Era of AI
The "human skill" gap that incoming lawyers face after graduation isn't new, but AI is exacerbating it. Educators and employers have an opportunity to address it. The "human skill" gap that incoming lawyers face after graduation isn't new, but AI is exacerbating...
The Best Law Schools For Technology Law (2026)
For law students, technology law isn’t just about keeping up with the latest gadgets and apps anymore. Between the explosion of artificial intelligence, rapidly evolving privacy rules, cybersecurity threats, cryptocurrency, and seemingly endless questions about who...
Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI For Lawyers, But You’ll Have To Wait Awhile To Chat With It
The post Relativity Announces claiR, A Conversational AI For Lawyers, But You’ll Have To Wait Awhile To Chat With It appeared first on Above the Law.Relativity today announced Relativity claiR, a conversational AI interface that lets lawyers ask plain-language...
Who Is Justice Barrett?
Justice Amy Coney Barrett ended the Supreme Court’s 2023 term with two dissents that complicate the usual descriptions of her jurisprudence. In Ohio v. EPA, decided on June 27, 2024, Barrett joined the Court’s three liberal justices in opposing emergency relief from a...
There’s A Secret Yale Law Group Chat About The Vances Because Of Course There Is
Somewhere out there is a Signal group full of Yale Law graduates, and they are still talking about law school -- or at least some of their classmates. That's the detail that launched a thousand social media posts from Kate Andersen Brower's new Vanity Fair profile of...
Todd Blanche Would Like The DOJ To Know He Will Lead With Integrity
Todd Blanche was sworn in as Attorney General of the United States earlier this week — by Emil Bove, because of course — and today he addressed the DOJ workforce with a message that can be summarized as: ignore everything you have seen with your own eyes for the last...
At This Elite Litigation Boutique, It’s ‘Eat What You Kill’ — And Associates Are Feasting
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We have no debt and we have the philosophy of when we have excess capital we pay everyone, from the barista to the receptionist to the IT guy to the paralegals to the associates to the non-equity partners to...
John Roberts Uses William Howard Taft To Defend His Own Record, Fails
Every year, Chief Justice John Roberts sits down and pens a little newsletter to the nation about the big issues facing the judiciary and manages to blow it every single time. Whether he’s rambling about typewriter history or spinning Thomas Paine fan-fiction, the...
Your Most Important Summer Reading Isn’t On Your Syllabus
If you’re starting law school this fall, you’ve probably already been told what to read. Casebooks. Maybe a primer on contracts. Something to get your head around how lawyers think before your first cold call. That advice isn’t wrong. It’s just incomplete. Because...
The Only Attorney General To Go To Prison (So Far)
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Of all the people who have served as attorney general of the United States, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, who is the only one who went on to serve time in federal prison? Hint: Before he...
XOXO, Gossip Girl: The Yale Law Whisper Network Dishes On Usha Vance — See Also
Everything You Need To Know About Usha Vance, You Can Learn At Yale Law: Her classmates gossip about her on Signal. The clerkship culture that shaped her politics is the part they don’t put in the group chat. Daft For Taft: John Roberts pens essay celebrating William...
Kirkland & Ellis Helps Eli Lilly Sue to Shut Down Alleged Black Market for GLP 1
Eli Lilly has filed six lawsuits, including five in Texas, against companies it says are illegally selling unapproved versions of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide amid growing concern over a global black market for counterfeit and compounded obesity...
Who Is Eligible—and Who Isn’t—for the Depo-Provera Settlement?
At a July 27 hearing, Pfizer Inc. attorney Joseph Petrocinelli said about 20% of the more than 6,200 cases filed in the Depo-Provera multidistrict litigation are ineligible for the settlement, the terms of which are confidential. At a July 27 hearing, Pfizer...
Amid Downturn in Electric Car Sales, Business Disputes Are Heading to Court
As electric car manufacturers are coping with sluggish sales, some are facing a variety of litigation. Things have been getting ugly for the electric car industry since the elimination of federal tax credits for EVs. As electric car manufacturers are coping with...
It’s ‘Follow the PE Leader’ in Big Law
Big Law has been avoiding it for as long as possible, but the hum of private equity investment in law firms, through managed service organization (MSO) structures, is growing louder. Big Law has been avoiding it for as long as possible, but the hum of private...
Boston Fed. Judge Dismisses Trump’s Suit Against Harvard Alleging Antisemitism
"Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day,"...
Industry Awards Finalists Announced
Join us in congratulating these honorees, who will be honored at The American Lawyer's annual gala on Nov. 12 in New York. Join us in congratulating these honorees, who will be honored at The American Lawyer's annual gala on Nov. 12 in New...
Trump Picks Arkansas Federal Judge for 8th Circuit Vacancy
Lee Rudofsky's confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit—which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota—the first federal appellate court with a majority of active judges appointed by...
DeepJudge Releases an Open Protocol for Passing Users – and Their Context – Between AI Products, with Harvey and Thomson Reuters On Board
DeepJudge, the Zurich-based enterprise search company that describes itself as the institutional intelligence platform for legal AI, today introduced the Agent Handoff Protocol, an open protocol designed to let users move from one AI product into another – and, in...
Evaluating Legal MSOs: Apply the ‘Rule of 2 to 5’
Frederick Shelton and Ayven Dodd: When negotiating with legal MSOs, sophisticated buyers know the first number on the page is only the beginning. Sophisticated sellers should think the same way. The post Evaluating Legal MSOs: Apply the ‘Rule of 2 to 5’ appeared first...
The Junior User’s Playbook: Using and Claiming a Trademark a Competitor Already Uses But Has Not Registered
It is one of the more common questions a trademark practitioner fields at the start of a brand launch: “We found the name we want to use, but somebody else is already using it — and they never registered it. Are we blocked? Surprisingly, the answer is oftentimes “not...
Trump’s Long Running Fight Over Mail Voting Intensifies Ahead of Midterms
The U.S. Department of Justice filed for a supplemental brief for an emergency stay Wednesday morning in a suit attorney generals from 23 states and the District of Columbia brought in April captioned California v. Trump. The U.S. Department of Justice filed for...
Taylor Farms, Taco Bell Retain Lead Defense Counsel in Growing Lettuce Lawsuits
Taylor Farms and Taco Bell now face more than a dozen lawsuits over a cyclospora outbreak involving shredded iceberg lettuce. Taylor Farms recently announced another recall of products containing jalapenos with possible salmonella contamination. Taylor Farms and...
Alabama’s Primary Drew 5 Percent Turnout Thanks To Supreme Court Destroying Voting Rights Act
Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned out to vote...
Former SPLC Expert Arrested On Fraud Charges As Malicious Prosecution Expands
When Benito Mussolini sent his followers to march on the capital in 1922, he fully expected to be thrown in jail (or more) for his attempted coup. Instead, he was asked to become prime minister. Mussolini himself stayed in Milan, allowing him to cultivate the sort of...
Boutique Money Is Where It’s At — See Also
Up To $170K In Bonus Bucks! This firm has already handed out three bonuses, while Biglaw associates are waiting to see if they’ll maybe get one. Purcell Unprincipled: Alabama held its first primary since the Supreme Court jettisoned the Voting Rights Act, and people...
Two Brother Left The Same Biglaw Firm And Took Over U.S. Foreign Policy
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! For most of the 1950s, the U.S. Secretary of State and the Director of the CIA were brothers, running diplomacy and covert operations in tandem under the same president. Before Washington called, both...
Ken Paxton Won’t Discuss His Marriage With Thousands Of Strangers. He’ll Just Regulate Yours.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a tele–town hall this week as part of his Senate campaign, and one caller decided to skip the small talk. “Hi Paxton, nice to meet you,” she began, sweetly. “I’m just wondering — why did you cheat on your wife?” Honestly? Same....
Critical Mass With Law.com’s Riley Brennan: Meta Smacked With $567M Abatement Order Over Social Media Harms, Leadership Shake-up Hits Paraquat Mass Tort
This week: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay $567 million into an abatement fund and implement child-safety reforms after finding Facebook and Instagram substantially contributed to the state's youth mental health crisis, pushing the company's total...
Elite Litigation Boutique Is Already On Its Third Round Of Associate Bonuses
While much of Biglaw is still dragging its feet on associate raises, one elite litigation boutique certainly isn’t making its lawyers wait around for more money. Reid Collins & Tsai is getting ready to hand out its third round of associate bonuses in 2026, and the...
Legal Education In America Is Getting A Fresh Look, Without The ABA Accreditor At The Table
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The quality of legal education is inseparable from the quality of justice in America. As legal education and the profession confront a period of rapid change, AALS believes it is essential to bring together a...
NJ Supreme Court Strikes a Blow Against Daniel’s Law
A New Jersey Supreme Court ruling finding no mens rea requirement for ordinary liability under Daniel's Law is a shot in the arm for those challenging the law on First Amendment grounds. A New Jersey Supreme Court ruling finding no mens rea requirement for...
The Shift From Lead Distribution to AI-Matched Legal Referrals
For decades, the market for connecting consumers with attorneys has operated on a simple model: a static directory, or a lead-distribution system in which a submitted case is broadcast to a pool of subscribing attorneys who compete to respond. The consumer sorts...
Biglaw Surrenders Were Worse Than We Thought
Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn’t forfeit the firm’s independence, Paul Weiss reportedly seriously debated letting Stephen Miller review the firm’s webpage edits according to the New York Times. The same reporting turned up the...
How Much Misconduct Is Jeanine Pirro Willing To Do To Save Her Job?
Jeanine Pirro’s tenure as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been a never-ending shitshow debacle. From the no bills for protesters, to the quashed subpoenas, to the doomed effort to indict sitting members of Congress for making factually correct...
If You Really Want To Work For The Department Of Justice, Then Do It Regardless Of Who The President Is
(Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)For many fresh law school graduates, getting a spot at the Department of Justice Honors Program was a pipe dream because of its ultra-competitiveness. But since President Donald Trump took office, many DOJ lawyers have quit,...
Florida’s AG Wants To Charge WNBA Player With Crime Of Playing Basketball
Let’s not insult each other: it’s highly unlikely that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier watched the Sky-Fever WNBA game this past Saturday. For all the performative concern about the sanctity of women’s sports, no one believes he sat down with a cold one to...
LawNext: LexisNexis CTO Greg Dickason On Building Legal AI In Real Time with Customers in Its New Innovation Lab
This week, LexisNexis announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City — a physical space where legal professionals, LexisNexis engineers, and AI companies such as OpenAI and Amazon Web Services sit in the same room and build legal AI together, in...