Above the Law

Discovery As Truth-Seeking: Win Hard Without Playing Hide-The-Ball

A practical, results-focused tutorial on how litigators can balance expansive discovery rights and privacy concerns without slowing cases down.

Supreme Court Kills IEEPA Tariffs — Importers Cheer, Consumers … Not So Much

Let's review how tariffs actually get collected in the United States.

How Congress Is Reacting To The Iran Conflict

Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta is joined by Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security to discuss Sen. Tim Kaine's push for a war powers vote and how it might play out.

Morning Docket: 03.04.26

* Judge Breyer calls out Elon Musk’s lawyer for giving “false impression” to the jury in Twitter case, but she was just staying on brand as a Grok representative. [Law360]

* More states consider alternative licensure paths. [ABA Journal]

* Supreme Court seemed unconvinced that defendants can waive their rights to appeal and then be stuck with an arbitrary sentence. [National Law Journal]

* With its sparse decision striking down California law preventing schools from outing students, the Court drapes itself in dangerous power. [Vox]

* A refresher on the Court of International Trade, the folks deciding all the tariff refunds. [New York Law Journal]

* Homeland Security probes alleged comments Greg Bovino made about Jewish lawyer. [Guardian]

The Trump Administration Can’t Even Give Up Properly — See Also

The DOJ Necromances Back Their Biglaw Executive Order Case: Good luck unringing the $940M bell.

Remember To Bring Booze To Con Law: Gorsuch put the alcoholism back in the Founding Fathers.

Skadden Gets Sanctioned In Multimillion-Dollar Case: The court found bad faith in their Virginia Action filing.

White House Gets Moral Talking To From Kesha: She doesn’t want her music associated with ‘mak[ing] light of war.’

Pro Bono Is Great, But How Bono?: Paladin and PLI help pro-bono-minded law students find their path.

Autonomous AI In Law Firms: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This is not an argument against the use of AI agents. It is an argument for discipline.

Exclusive: Confido Legal Raises $9 Million To Expand Embedded Payments And Disbursements For Law Firms

The announcement combines the current round, which closed in November, with the seed round from 2024, which Confido’s co-founder and CEO Emery Wager said totaled a little over $2 million.

Fewer Equity Partners, Fatter Paychecks

As firms slow expansion at the top, remaining equity partners reap the financial rewards.

Skadden Sanctioned Over ‘Duplicative, Vexatious Litigation’

Rough week for Skadden.

Relativity Names 2026 AI Visionaries

The fifth annual list honors those actually doing the unsexy work of making legal AI function.

Kesha Blows Up White House Attempt To Use Her Music For Propaganda

The spokesperson we didn't know we needed.

With 100 Days Until FIFA World Cup 26, Congress Should Be Concerned

When funding freezes threaten readiness, lawmakers should be asking whether the financial architecture matches the security burden.

Justice Gorsuch: Originalism Means Remembering That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party

A literal episode of Drunk History.

How Some Law Departments Are Winning Law Firm Rate Negotiations

Join us on March 18th at 1 p.m. ET to explore what actually drives outside counsel pricing outcomes in today’s market. CLE credit is available.

The Audacity Of AI Incompetence

Priceless and appalling. The gift that keeps on giving.