Announcements
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Admin, Advertising, Announcements, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law: Ally Bank Kinney Recruiting Lateral Link LexisNexis Probono Manager The Atlantic If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our media kits, or email advertising@breakingmedia.com. Thanks! -
Admin, Announcements, Media and Journalism, Shameless Plugs
Above the Law and Breaking Media Continue Pursuit of World Domination
Greetings, Above the Law readers. We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an announcement relating to our parent company, Breaking Media. From our press release: Jonah Bloom, currently editor of Crain Communications’ Advertising Age, will be joining Breaking Media, the B2B digital blog network that publishes the popular sites Above The Law, DealBreaker, […] - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Admin, Announcements, Blog Wars, Blogging, Contests, Shameless Plugs
Voting Is Underway for the ABA Journal Blawg 100(And we respectfully request your support.)
The legal blogs selected for the ABA Journal Blawg 100 have been announced. In case you’re not familiar with this fine tradition, now in its third year, the Blawg 100 are “the 100 best Web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, as chosen by the editors of the ABA Journal.” The 100 websites are divided into […]
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Admin, Announcements, Food, Holidays and Seasons
Happy Thanksgiving from Your Friends at ATL
Greetings, Above the Law readers. Please accept our wishes for a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We hope you aren’t spending much time in front of the computer today (or tomorrow, which is effectively a holiday too). But if you are — for some depressing reason, like work — feel free to bemoan your fate in the […] -
Announcements, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Maternity Leave
LEWW was recently hospitalized for a series of events that resulted in the birth of an actual human being for which we are now responsible. We’ll be taking a brief hiatus from our Legal Eagle Wedding-Watching duties while we adjust to life with this screaming, pooping bundle of adorableness. The Lat/Mystal regime is far less […] -
Admin, Announcements, Blogging, D. Marvin Jones, Defamation, Free Speech, Law Professors, Lawsuit of the Day, Media and Journalism, Pro Se Litigants
Breaking: Jones v. Minkin Dismissed!!!(Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses lawsuit against ATL.)
Yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day — Jones v. Minkin, a $44 million lawsuit against yours truly, Above the Law publisher David Minkin, and Dead Horse Media (now known as Breaking Media) — has been voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiff, University of Miami law professor Donald Jones. There was NO SETTLEMENT in this case. Above the […] -
Admin, Announcements, Shameless Plugs
ATL Goes to ATL: Elie Hits Hotlanta
The devil is going down to Georgia. Our very own Elie Mystal will be on the midnight train, and the party won’t stop until eight in the morning. If you’ll be in Atlanta this coming Monday, November 2, please check out the following event: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR LAWYERS Monday, November 2, 11:30 AM – 1:00 […] -
Admin, Announcements, Birthdays, Shameless Plugs, Shopping
Happy Blogiversary to... Us! Above the Law Turns Three
Three years ago yesterday, on August 30, 2006, Above the Law was born. Read the letter from the editor that started it all. (If you find this site occasionally immature, cut us some slack; we’re three years old.) Reaching the three-year mark is a notable milestone for a blog. According to Jim Beck and Mark […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Admin, Announcements, Shameless Plugs, Silicon Valley
If you'll be in the Bay Area on Monday...
Please feel free to attend a presentation by yours truly. Details after the jump. -
Admin, Announcements, Conferences / Symposia, Shameless Plugs
ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference 2009
Your above-signed writer will be delivering the keynote address at this year’s ABA Law Firm Marketing Strategies Conference, taking place in Philadelphia from November 12-13, 2009. In this tough economy, the subject of how to market your law firm effectively is more important than ever. To learn more about the conference, click here. To register, […] -
Admin, Advertising, Announcements, Fabulosity, Parties, This Is an Ad
An ATL Event: Rooftop Gathering with Applied Discovery
If you’ll be in New York on Monday, August 24, you might be interested in this event, brought to you by Above the Law and our friends at Applied Discovery: SPACE IS LIMITED. To request an invitation, please email InviteRequest@breakingmedia.com. Please include your name, employer, and job title in your response. If we can accommodate […] -
Admin, Advertising, Announcements, Fabulosity, Parties, This Is an Ad
An ATL Event: Rooftop Gathering with Applied Discovery
If you’ll be in New York on Monday, August 24, you might be interested in this event, brought to you by Above the Law and our friends at Applied Discovery: SPACE IS LIMITED. To request an invitation, please email InviteRequest@breakingmedia.com. Please include your name, employer, and job title in your response. If we can accommodate […] -
Admin, Advertising, Announcements, Fabulosity, Parties, This Is an Ad
An ATL Event: Rooftop Gathering with Applied Discovery
If you’ll be in New York on Monday, August 24, you might be interested in this event, brought to you by Above the Law and our friends at Applied Discovery: SPACE IS LIMITED. To request an invitation, please email InviteRequest@breakingmedia.com. Please include your name, employer, and job title in your response. If we can accommodate […]
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Admin, Announcements, Fabulosity, Parties
An ATL Event: Rooftop Gathering with Applied Discovery
If you’ll be in New York on Monday, August 24, you might be interested in this event, brought to you by Above the Law and our friends at Applied Discovery: SPACE IS LIMITED. To request an invitation, please email InviteRequest@breakingmedia.com. Please include your name, employer, and job title in your response. If we can accommodate […] -
Admin, Announcements, Blogging, Law Schools, UVA Law
Above the Law Policy on Law Student Anonymity
This is really of interest only to hard-core ATL groupies. But if you’d like to know our policy on preserving the anonymity of law students who do embarrassing things — and why we identified the alleged Law Student Spitter by name yesterday, even though we generally keep names out of summer associate stories — then […] -
Accounting / Accountants, Admin, Announcements, Going Concern
Making Accounting Sexy: Meet Going Concern
The Breaking Media family of sites — which until now consisted of Above the Law, Dealbreaker, and Fashionista — continues to grow. Today ATL welcomes a little sibling: Going Concern, a blog for accountants, CFOs, and business finance executives. Going Concern will be similar to ATL, but aimed at CPAs rather than JDs, or the […] -
Advertising, Announcements, Career Center, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: Please Send Us Your Updates
The Career Center, brought to you by Above the Law and Lateral Link, continues to see tremendous traffic, with almost 200,000 pageviews in its first two months. Thanks to all of your feedback and tips, we are continually updating the firm snapshots with new information (some good, some not so good). Keep checking to see […] -
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Admin, Announcements, Holidays and Seasons
Happy Fourth of July!
ATL will be on a reduced publication schedule today, in observance of Independence Day. Most of you are out of the office, and we are too. But not everyone has the day off. From one tipster: While the rest of downtown Chicago is dead, away on vacation or taking the day off, Katten employees are […] -
Admin, Announcements
Meet the Interns
A while back, Above the Law put out a call for new interns. We were flooded with applications. Nearly 80 people sent in résumés, writing samples, and funny emails showing they had the stuff to deal with the irreverent world of Above the Law. We saw many qualified candidates, and we want to thank everybody […]