Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We successfully resolved our dispute with the Trump Administration in Q1 and, through the first eight months of the year, we are fortunate that all of our metrics are up double digits: revenues, demand, profits, pro bono hours, inventory. We have never been busier. […]
Biglaw Partner Gets Ear Pierced In Courtroom After Saving Claire’s From Bankruptcy: Fancy lawyering, fancier jewelry! Trump Sues NYT For Doing Their Jobs: Again. Get a new hobby, man. Luigi Mangione’s Terrorism Charges Dropped: Judge finds the charges wouldn’t have held up at trial. Perfectionism Can Be A Downer: Has our expectation of perfection from […]
“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way,” Justice Sotomayor told a New York Law School audience this morning, “I think to myself, that law school failed.” Supreme Court justices… they’re just like us! If you’ve followed the news this week, you’ve probably muttered the same […]
Shortly after healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed by a hooded figure in broad daylight, Luigi Mangione was accused of murdering him. Many took the shooting to be an indictment of healthcare and health insurance companies: CEOs scrubbed personalized information from their websites and buffed up their security personnel, and Luigi was charged with two […]
Getting your ears pierced at Claire’s is almost a rite of passage for adults of a certain vintage. Your mother either brought you to Claire’s to get it done, or your mother yelled at you after you went to Claire’s to get it done with your friends. Either way, it’s highly likely that you, or […]
Bursting an “EO” Myth? Two weeks into the new term, a Seattle courtroom offered the year’s defining image of presidential power meeting its limits: a Ninth Circuit panel upheld a nationwide block on the administration’s attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, acknowledging that the judges’ interpretation of the Constitution—not a presidential pen stroke—sets the terms of American membership. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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