Above the Law

The Path To AI Maturity: What Leaders Should Consider In The Coming Year

AI is rapidly becoming an everyday reality. This CLE webinar will provide insights on how to get ahead of the transforming AI legal landscape.

Navigating Law Firm Mergers: Communication, Culture, And The Marketer’s Influence

Mergers are far more than a press release, and they reverberate through every layer of the firm.

Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing For Law Firms

The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides eligible law firms with pre-qualified access to working capital through a streamlined application process directly within the Clio platform.

GenAI: A Slippery Slope Of Too Much Kool-Aid?

How much GenAI writing is too much GenAI writing?

It Took Years For Congress To Enact PBM Transparency, Delinking. What About Vertical Integration?

Experts say the bipartisan Break Up Big Medicine Act — aimed at breaking up vertically integrated healthcare companies — faces slim chances of passing despite recent PBM reforms.

Morning Docket: 03.10.26

* Anthropic sues over Defense Department blackballing with WilmerHale’s help. [BBC]

* Court rules that the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office continues to be run by illegal appointees. [Reuters]

* Ballard Spahr enjoys healthy boost following merger. [American Lawyer]

* Ticketmaster trial thrown for a loop as administration settles its antitrust claims. [Courthouse News Service]

* AI law firm founder says she’s working harder now than she did in Biglaw. [Fortune]

* Brett Kavanaugh claims anyone suggesting that the Supreme Court is issuing far more shadow docket opinions in support of the administration have “short” memories. Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court because he spent his nomination hearings swearing he didn’t recall anything about his past. [Law360]

* ChatGPT sued for telling a woman to fire her lawyer. [Forbes]

Fright Makes Right — See Also

DOJ Argues Scared Biglaw Firms Show They Did Something Right!: That’s not how the Founders expected EOs to work.

The Former Director Of The DOJ’s Departmental Ethics Office Weighs In: The weakening of the Hatch Act will have long lasting consequences.

These Law Schools Fight To Expand The Legal Pipeline: Check out the Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll!

These Millions Are Ear Marked For Full Rides: The University of New Mexico Law School just got a huge gift!

You Know Exactly How The War In Iran Will End

Trump never loses anything.

The Law Schools That Are Working The Hardest To Expand The Pipeline To The Legal Profession

The Justice & Opportunity Honor Roll recognizes meaningful efforts to make law school more accessible.

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails

For generations, strict limits on the DOJ's political activity helped sustain trust. Weakening those limits threatens to erode it.

AI Contracts Are Moving Faster Than The Laws. In-House Counsel Can’t Wait.

In-house counsel do not need perfect foresight.

Judge Rules That Kari Lake Is Still A Loser

Making the Federal Vacancies Reform Act great again.

8am’s Smart Spend Enhancement: Analogue Thinking In A GenAI World

The unheralded things that aren’t GenAI can still be critical to getting what lawyers want and need to get done.

Legal Ethics Roundup: Ethics Whiplash Over Executive Orders + FL Bondi Complaint, DOJ Takes On State Discipline, Spike In Judicial Conduct Complaints & More

Your tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics, with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson.

Anthropic CEO Says Pentagon Ban Less Harsh Than Hegseth Had Threatened

CEO Dario Amodei said he would still sue to overturn the designation of Anthropic as a 'supply chain risk,' but he said the company was 'having productive conversations with the Department of War' — which Pentagon CTO Emil Michael promptly denied.