Above the Law

Challenging Truisms And Embracing A Cockroach Mentality

What will it mean to be a lawyer and legal professional in the future? What will our new value proposition be?

Five New AI-Powered Business Models For Solos And Smalls In 2026

The AI age does not point toward a single future for law practice or for the wholesale extinction of lawyers. Instead, it opens multiple viable paths.

BriefCatch Raises $6M Series A To Accelerate Acquisitions And Development

BriefCatch says the round comes amid its highest revenue growth rate to date, with 126% net enterprise revenue retention among large law-firm customers.

Morning Docket: 12.30.25

* Another former partner sues Kasowitz alleging unpaid compensation. [NY Law Journal]

* The Post Office will no longer postmark mail on the day it’s sent. The goal is to prevent mail-in voting, but… so long mailbox rule![Brookings]

* Alex Spiro writes California governor warning him that his clients will leave California if the state attempts to make them actually pay taxes. [Yahoo]

* Jeffrey Toobin profiles Tom Goldstein’s predicament. Key takeaway… it seems as though he might not have been quite as good at poker as he thought. [New York Times Magazine]

* Professor redesigns contracts course to recognize the role AI plays in modern practice. [Law.com]

* Legal Cheek’s most read stories of the year. [Legal Cheek]

Best Of ’25 — See Also

Chief Justice Roberts Get Outed By A Handshake: Hard to play impartial after the buddy buddy display.

Bye Bye, OCI: Latham dropped out of the time-tested recruitment method.

You’re Arresting Me For What?: Former cop arrested over a Facebook meme.

Words Have Consequences: Biglaw recruiter fired after racist rant.

A T14 Law Degree Won’t Protect You From The Wrath Of Hans Gruber

Hans Gruber's recitation of Takagi’s resume was an early demonstration of the research that went into the takeover of Nakatomi Plaza.

Best Of ’25: Video Of Racist Rant Costs Biglaw Recruiting Director Their Job, Because, Yeah

Maybe don't yell the N-word in public if you work in legal recruiting.

From Risk Aversion To Risk Calibration: What Senne Mennes Taught Me About Building Legal Systems That Learn

Slow and steady is the death of innovation.

Best Of ’25: Watch The Exact Moment John Roberts Realizes He Whored Himself Out

Trump blows up the myth.

The Deepfake Courtroom Problem: A Colorado Blue Ribbon Study Sheds Some Light And Offers A Start To Solutions

Deepfakes and evidence created or enhanced by AI are going to become increasingly prevalent. How can we successfully confront the problem?

Best Of ’25: Man Files Civil Rights Lawsuit After Being Arrested Over A Meme

About time!

Another National Security Concern!

It's almost like the administration is ginning up national security concerns that don't really exist.

Best Of ’25: Latham Will No Longer Participate In Law School On-Campus Interview Programs

How will this affect law students? And how many other Biglaw firms will reject OCI?

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Morning Docket: 12.29.25

* The Supreme Court told the Trump administration it couldn’t deploy national guard troops to police cities. [One First]

* But this probably won’t amount to more than a speed bump for the administration. [The Bulwark]

* Meanwhile, Kavanaugh used this opinion as an opportunity to convince people to stop calling his racial profiling standard a racial profiling standard. [Raw Story]

* Epstein files reveal Trump’s first administration DOJ put reporter under surveillance for investigating Epstein’s crimes. [Daily Beast]

* Diddy seeks resentencing. [National Law Journal]

* Under a standard obligation not to make extrajudicial remarks about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the government… immediately makes extrajudicial remarks about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. [Mother Jones]

* Are young lawyers lateraling too much? Probably not. [New York Law Journal]