Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received more than $2 million in book advances from Penguin Random House in 2024. The news came as part of the justices’ annual financial disclosures, which are filed each year in mid-May and then released in June. The forms, published online on Tuesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, […]
Citing the “paralyzing uncertainty” created when tariffs are “added and subtracted at will,” two small businesses came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday asking the justices to quickly weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s reliance on a law giving the president broad authority over economic transactions in a national emergency to impose […]
* Rod Rosenstein jumps to Baker McKenzie, placing a new firm in Trump’s executive order sights. [Reuters] * John Eastman still on track for disbarment… unless Mike Pence has the courage. [Law360] * Cadwalader partner leaves for firm actively litigating against Trump. [Bloomberg Law News] * And more partners may be heading for the door […]
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I laughed, I cried, it was considerably worse than Cats. That pretty much sums up client reactions to the pitch decks law firms slap together manually. A grand farce draped in the delusion of strategy, built on systems that make even the DMV look like an agile startup. The State of Proposal Generation and Business […]
Regulator takes steps to improve process The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has made several changes to the way students apply for reasonable adjustments during the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). The regulator has introduced a new application form with a series of targeted questions designed to minimise the need for follow-up clarification from students on their […]
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Poll: Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to obey court rulings, but MAGA Republicans are split (Dylan Ebs, NBC News) Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ Copyright Lawsuit Won’t Go to Supreme Court (Tomás Mier, Rolling […]
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. This week I’m mixing things up here at the Roundup. Summer officially begins this week on June […]
If you’re in-house, overwhelmed, and wondering if there’s a smarter way to support the business without burning out, make time for Tanisha Minev. In a recent episode of Notes to My (Legal) Self, Tanisha — in-house legal counsel and co-author of “Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data” — offers one of the […]
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