Above the Law

3 Questions For A Patent Litigator Turned Legal Recruiter (Part I)

Khurram Naik was a major contributor to one of the IP success stories of 2025.

Bad Service, Lost Clients: What Restaurants Teach Us About Law Firm Client Service

Are you the restaurant clients can’t wait to revisit, or the one they’ll never give a second chance?

An AI Proctor For Remote Depositions: Has Its Time Come?

With more depositions being taken remotely and more proceedings being conducted online, it stands to reason that more witnesses will cheat.

AI And The Future Of Legal Work: Augmentation, Not Automation

The real risk for lawyers is not that AI will take their jobs. It is that other lawyers will use AI better than they do.

Rising Costs & Medicare Advantage Flaws To Drive Healthcare Reform Talks In 2026

Potential policy changes could focus on improving affordability in the ACA market and fixing distorted incentives in Medicare Advantage.

Morning Docket: 01.06.26

* Maduro’s legal team anchored by Julian Assange’s lawyer. [NY Law Journal]

* Meanwhile, the DOJ just dropped its claims that Maduro ran the “Cartel de los Soles” after acknowledging that it’s not even a real group. Exactly the sort of airtight prosecution you’d expect to see before killing 40-80 people to make an arrest. [NY Times]

* Chamber of Commerce will get an expedited appeal on challenge to Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee. [Law360]

* Alan Dershowitz wants the Supreme Court to overturn Sullivan to bail out his case against CNN. [Reuters]

* Florida Supreme Court kills proposal to let state government lawyers practice without taking the bar exam. [ABA Journal]

* George Conway announces congressional bid. [ABC News]

* Marc Elias writes the encapsulation of 2025 in “Big Law Walks Away From Democracy.” [Democracy Docket]

You Can Say Whatever You Want When You’re The Chief Justice — See Also

Chief Justice Roberts Invents Thomas Paine Legacy From New Cloth: If only he were here to defend himself.

Steven Banks Takes Helm As Corporate Counsel: New York is in good hands!

Law Students Call On ABA To Tell Biglaw To Chill Out On Recruitment Speeds: As it stands, everybody is stressed out.

Timing Matters: The DOJ’s attention to detail is lacking in the DC Pipe Bomb case.

Thrice As Nice!: Lowenstein Sandler takes our 17th annual Holiday Card Contest!

‘Old-School’ Judge Tapped For Maduro Case

He's no stranger to high-profile cases.

Law Students Make Hail Mary Plea For ABA To Curb Law Firm Recruitment Timelines

‘Do something! Please and thanks.’ - The students, basically.

Stop Calling It Legal Support: Karl Seelbach Says Deposition Tech Is Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Legal teams have spent too long optimizing the wrong things. It is time to change that.

AI In The Courtroom: Will We Trade The Rule Of Law For Efficiency’s Sake?

How can we ensure transparency in judicial decision-making when it comes to AI?

Paul, Weiss ‘Betrayed Its Own Values’ When Capitulating To Trump

Will the storied firm have trouble when it comes to recruiting thanks to kissing Trump's ring?

He Left Paul, Weiss On Principle. Now He’s In Charge Of New York City’s Legal Future.

Paul, Weiss’s loss is New York City’s gain.

A Tariff Prediction For 2026

I see ... I see ... the Supreme Court ... . They're making a ... decision.

ATL Holiday Card Contest: The Winner! (2025)

Congratulations to the worthy winner of our seventeenth annual law firm holiday card contest!