Last night, Donald Trump filed yet another media trollsuit. As usual, he took full advantage of the ad damnum clause to juice the news cycle. “Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in […]
* D.C. Circuit blocks attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor. [NBC News] * Trump files $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times for malicious reporting of stuff he doesn’t like. [CNN] * Two different people claim to be Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft and no one could figure out the correct answer. This is […]
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We’ve all lost count of the times we’ve received an email, policy, or memo from a lawyer so “well written” that nobody understands it. It’s frustrating, and you want to write back: “Great legal summary — I have no idea what it means.” Unfortunately, that’s often how legal communications are received by business colleagues and […]
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. Unless your perception of law firm life is warped by Suits, The Good Wife, or Ally McBeal, no person would think of law as a fun, sexy profession. And you certainly don’t go into it for its salubrious […]
At ILTACON 2025, Litera had a lofty goal: turning lawyers into legends. On the heels of five new product announcements this summer, the company made a major splash at the recent conference. From drafting airtight documents and surfacing firm-wide knowledge to driving growth and ensuring operational excellence, Litera works where lawyers do: in Microsoft 365 […]
If you’re requesting emergency relief from the Supreme Court, how long should you expect to wait for a decision? In other words, does the court really treat emergency applications as emergencies? The answer, it turns out, depends on what kind of emergency you have. Decision times for the court’s emergency, or interim relief, docket have […]
Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Before beginning its summer recess, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the case of […]
Possibly the dumbest news cycle of the year involved former FBI Director James Comey being branded as a political terrorist for taking an Instagram shot of some goddamned seashells by the seashore. In May, the longtime Republican had arranged the shells into “8647,” marrying “86” — the old-timey lingo for bouncing an unruly patron or […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. President Trump lol. — An anonymous Am Law 100 associate’s response to a question found in the American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey about what they consider the biggest threat to their current role in the industry. As noted by Am Law, how firms handled the Trump […]
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