Halloween was a terrific time for members of the legal community — especially law students — who were able to celebrate the day’s festivities with costumes of note. As usual, we want to see your creativity in action.
For the fifteenth year in a row, we here at Above the Law are soliciting legally themed costumes for our annual Halloween contest. We’re continually impressed with how creative lawyers and law students can be when they take their noses out of their books.
Here are some of the winning looks from the past few years of the contest: the Donald J. Trump College of Law (2016), Brett Kavanaugh’s calendar and his beer (2018), Ruth Baby Ginsburg (2020), and Warhol’s Soup Law (2023).
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Please email us or text us (646-820-8477) your pictures and then we’ll vote on the winner of our annual competition. Please send us your submissions as soon as you can. We’re all looking forward to judging you!
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on X/Twitter and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.