Above the Law

Partnerships, Legal Education, Marriages… Lawyers Were Destroying Everything Last Week — See Generally

Another Biglaw Single-Tier Partnership Falls: The path to upward mobility got a little narrower.

Florida And Texas Take Over Legal Education From The ABA: Both states have made abundantly clear that their schools are headed for a dumpster fire.

Former Senator Turned Biglaw Lawyer Sued For Ruining A Marriage: The complaint reads less like a legal dispute and more like a prestige HBO drama. Well… STARZ drama anyway..

Supreme Court Hacked, Which Tracks: America’s highest court might want to consider changing its password to something harder than “12345.”

Former Biglaw Associate Who Refused To Bend The Knee Earns Top Honor: Above the Law readers select lawyer who chose principle over prestige as 2025 Lawyer of the Year.

Lindsey Halligan Responds To Illegal Appointment Allegations By Doubling Down: Trump’s most loyal lawyer insists the problem isn’t the law — it’s everyone insisting on following it.

New Law School Rises From The Ashes Of A Prior Disaster: Hopefully this time is different.

Former Biglaw Partner Charged With Murder: The profession confronts a grim reminder that elite credentials are not character references.

Law School Arms Students With Anti-ICE Hotline: As federal enforcement escalates, one institution decides protecting students matters more than staying quiet.

Law Firm Earns Coal Right Before Christmas — See Also

Leave The Trick Or Treating For Halloween: Firm tries to teach the importance of cybersecurity by tricking their associates.

Florida Newest State To Break From ABA: Only 48 states remain under the weight of the ABA’s unenforced diversity requirements.

Welcome, Dean! Goodbye, Dean!: The culture war claims the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s newest dean hire’s job.

United States Threatens UK Over Investigating America’s CSAM Bot: We’re the only ones that can ban foreign apps!

Beveridge & Diamond Mourns The Loss Of Albert Beveridge III: We send our condolences to the firm, family and friends.

Adversaries Can Make Great Referral Sources

Just watch out for the ethical issues that may come with accepting referrals from an adversary.

Stat(s) Of The Week: Top Outside Counsel Quiz Results

How many readers successfully matched the firm to the feedback in our "Name That Firm" game?

AI Is Killing The Billable Hour. The Real Question Is What Comes Next.

Moving beyond the billable hour requires more than negotiating new fee structures with outside counsel.

The Inevitable Commoditization Of GenAI: What Will It Mean For Legal?

Law firms must pay attention to what is going on in the marketplace and what vendors are doing.

Law Firm Sent Out Fake Christmas Vouchers. Staff Want To Ram Coal Up Leadership’s Chimneys.

Ho ho oh no no no!

How Appealing Weekly Roundup

The week in appellate news.

State Department Threatens UK Over Grok Investigation, Because Only The US Is Allowed To Ban Foreign Apps

From the fighting-csam-is-censorship? dept

Morning Docket: 01.16.26

* ICE detaining Native Americans and then telling their tribes that they will only release information about the people they’ve illegally detained if the tribes agree to sign over sovereignty to assist in immigration sweeps. [Washington Post]

* Massive college basketball point shaving scheme charged. I guess this is why you always take the under. [NBC News]

* Speaking of gambling, Tom Goldstein trial began yesterday. [National Law Journal]

* Florida follows Texas in dropping ABA accreditation. Smart law students should follow their friends to out of state schools. [Inside Higher Ed]

* Judge suspended for giving defendant a dollar to cover her bond. [ABA Journal]

* Appeals court decides along party lines that federal judges can’t stop deportations even if they’re unconstitutional until the immigration adjudication process is complete. Anything to make constitutional rights more difficult to exercise! [ACLU]

Lawyer Of The Year Stays In Good Trouble — See Also

Rachel Cohen Keeps Pushing Against Authoritarianism: Somebody has to take these 10-year-old phone thieves to task.

Bonus Dollars And A Nonequity Partner Track: Check out Sullivan & Cromwell’s new bonus program!

Who Needs TV When You Can Read Complaints?: Kyrsten Sinema sued for alienation of affection.

Time To Make GenAI Competency Mandatory?: It’s a bold opinion for bold times.

UMaine Law School Preps Community Against ICE: Know your rights and stay safe!

No Longer The Baby Among Law Schools

Move over.

AI Startup AlphaLit Raises $3.2M Seed Round To Screen And Score Smaller Cases And Route Them To Lawyers

Already, the company has created some 80 cases through its platform. It is operating only in California for now.

I Didn’t Set Out To Write A Series And Yet It Happened

When merely making it to the end of the week becomes the goal, something has already gone wrong.

Law School Arms Students With Anti-ICE Hotline To Protect The Community

Which law schools will follow suit?