Earned £10k A fraudster has received a suspended prison sentence after using a fake law degree certificate to secure legal roles. Gloucester Crown Court heard how Aditya Rai forged academic certificates claiming he had completed an LLB, and backed this up with a false CV to secure jobs at three different firms — two based […]
Work From Home? That Was So 2024: Sidley only gave a week’s notice before ordering folks back. Above The Law In The New York Times: Normally this newsletter is about Above the Law stories of the week, but let’s make an exception for this Times feature on ATL. Hold These Shells Up To Your Ear […]
This week, we’ve had K&L Gates sanctioned over fake AI cites. It spread to Canada. Latham admitted to an AI screw-up in a case WHERE THEY WERE REPRESENTING AN AI COMPANY. And we’re not too far removed the DOJ probably used AI to gin up a self-serving but very fake Supreme Court quote. And so […]
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 Sonya L. Sigler back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. I used to think self-care was going to get a pedicure. Or taking a […]
Most litigators need to travel for court conferences, depositions, site inspections, and other events during the life of a lawsuit. Depending on the type of appearance, a lawyer might spend more time traveling to attend an event than at the appearance itself. While many lawyers bill for travel time in some fashion, I have encountered vastly different […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected for Am Law’s 2025 mental health survey, what percentage of respondents felt like their co-workers cared about their mental health? Hint: The number may be higher than you think! The data collected suggests an upward trend in mental health […]
Comey’s “Cool Shell Formation” Has Kash Patel Phoning In The SS: His abbreviation, not mine. These Firms Are Really LinkedIn: Is your firm on the top of its social media game? You Can Do A Lot When You Misread The Supreme Court!: Missouri’s AG misreads court opinion to over-police social media. John Morgan Of Morgan […]
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon extended its ban on the removal from the United States of Venezuelan men currently in immigration custody in the northern region of Texas. In an eight-page unsigned opinion, the justices sent the case back to a federal appeals court for another look and blocked the Trump administration from removing […]
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily block an order by a federal judge in San Francisco that bars the Trump administration from implementing an executive order and a related memorandum calling for large-scale reductions in the federal workforce – the elimination of jobs, followed by […]
Getty Images Gone are the days when clients were wary of their lawyers using artificial intelligence. Instead, many clients today are demanding to know how their law firms are becoming more efficient. And the ones with the best answers have big competitive advantages. On this episode of “Adventures in Legal Tech,” host Jared Correia speaks […]
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