Rising Healthcare Costs: What Employers Are Doing To Manage Expenses, Per Mercer
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Alito Doesn’t Think Trans Children Deserve The Strict Scrutiny Standard — See Also
The Majority Of The Supreme Court Gave The Okay To Discriminate Against Trans Children: That said, Alito’s concurrence really goes the extra mile. Want To Know The Best Law School Ranking?: Ours! Read ATL’s Top 50 Law School Ranking fresh off the presses. Vault Scored Law Firms By Prestige: The ranking seems unmarred by the […]
Additional opinions from Wednesday, June 18
On Wednesday, June 18, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, the court considered who has a right to challenge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing decisions. Texas and a private company were seeking legal review of one of the commission’s licensing decisions from 2021 regarding the storage of […]
Watching environmental law get eclipsed by Skrmetti
The courtroom is quite full today as we near the end of the term. A key reason for that is this is the last day for in-person admissions to the Supreme Court Bar. The bar section is packed with groups to be moved for admission from City University of New York School of Law, Georgetown […]
Vault 100 Rankings: The Most Prestigious Law Firms In America (2026)
What do associates at major law firms care about more than money? Prestige. But in times like these, when Biglaw firms are signing away their very legacies to appease Donald Trump’s unconstitutional whims, being a leader when it comes to compensation may not be enough to rescue a firm’s floundering prestige. Except, of course, when the surveys for […]
The 2025 ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings Are Here!
We are pleased to announce the release of the 13th annual Above the Law Top 50 Law School Rankings. Above the Law’s rankings are premised on the belief that most people who go to law school want to be lawyers. That’s why it is the outcomes for graduates (e.g., bar passage, job placement) rather than […]
Legal Geek North America 2025: Quick Talks, Big Ideas, And Plenty Of Networking
I had the good fortune to attend my first day of the Legal Geek North America conference this week in Chicago. The Conference Legal Geek touts itself as an atypical legal tech conference. It was founded some 10 years ago by Jimmy Vestbirk, who wanted to create a fun, fast-paced, and impactful legal conference and […]
GCs And Law Firm Attorneys: Perfect Together?
How well are law departments and law firms working together? What are the biggest challenges to collaboration? What emerging skills are becoming must-haves in the era of generative AI? Above the Law and iManage surveyed over 200 lawyers — at law firms and working in-house — to find out where they see eye to eye […]
The Jerk Store Called, They’re Not Running Out Of Lawyers
(image via Getty Images) According to a new survey, lawyers think their law firms are really tolerant of jerks. Are they right about that, or just overly sensitive? The DC Bar election ended in a blowout, but why? For all the complaining about some wild theories on social media, the simpler reason is that leading […]
Court upholds Tennessee’s ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers. By a vote of 6-3, the justices rejected an argument by three transgender teens (along with their parents and a Memphis doctor) that the law violates their constitutional right to equal protection and should be scrutinized using a more stringent […]