Above the Law

Mind Your Gum, Please — See Also

Federal Judge Takes Court Room Littering Seriously: Bet they won’t treat the table underside as a gum receptacle again.

Make Work-Life Balance A Little Easier!: Vault ran the numbers to see which firms are your best bet.

Much Ado About Two Days: Trump administration sues District of Maryland for not letting it disappear people immediately.

Sullivan & Cromwell Is Publicly Cozying Up With The President’s People: Not a good look for the firm.

Remember The Fish Tank In The Yale Law Library?: It will soon be a memory come July 1st.

Trump Administration Goes Full Sovereign Citizen And Sues ALL THE JUDGES!

Step right up and get your tin foil hats, DOJ.

2025 Legal Industry Report: State Of Immigration

A new report authored by James Pittman shares valuable data that can inform immigration lawyers and help them better serve their clients.

The U.S. Is Minting A Thousand New Millionaires A Day: They’d Make Better Allies Than Antagonists

The rate of people becoming millionaires for the first time has jumped significantly.

Introducing The 2025 Legal Marketing Decision-Makers Survey!

Insights from over 100 marketing and business development leaders — on everything from AI to attracting new clients. 

You Catch More Judges With ‘Honey’ Than With Vinegar

And the Supreme Court has a wild one.

Vault ‘Quality Of Life’ Rankings: The Best Law Firms To Work For In America (2026)

Associates rank their firms based on their own happiness -- and there's been a major shakeup. Did your law firm make the cut?

G-III Apparel Group Files $250 Million Lawsuit Against PVH Corp., Clothing Rental Company CaaStle Files For Bankruptcy

Plus, Claire's considers a sale amid tariff uncertainty.

Morning Docket: 06.25.25

* DOJ files suit in the District of Maryland against every judge in the District of Maryland. CHECKMATE! [Bloomberg Law News]

* Court agrees that using copyrighted material to train AI is fair use. [Washington Post]

* Judiciary tells Congress that PACER poses a cyber risk. Maybe if they’d modernized it with all those fees they collected instead of redesigning their offices, hm? [Law360]

* Lawyers copied brief from another law firm, including all the arguments that already lost. [ABA Journal]

* Law firms struggling to keep pace with the Trump administration’s changing list of banned words. [American Lawyer]

* Emil Bove’s judicial nomination will provide opportunity to ask about DOJ management, including report that Bove encouraged open defiance of court orders. See, a savvy administration might have not nominated him to avoid this…[Reuters]

* Stephen Miller may have a financial stake in the company he’s having ICE use to deport people. [Rolling Stone]

What’s The Bonus For A Third-Year Biglaw Assassin? — See Also

Biglaw Partner Thought He Was Running The Continental From John Wick: In fairness, Biglaw would be a lot more interesting if they replaced all the associates with “assassins.”

Don’t Play Lawyerball With The Referee: Supreme Court majority tried to give “deporting people to war zones” the Drive-Thru treatment, but Justice Sotomayor turned the tables.

Certainly No One Cares About Mindlessly Pursuing Status In *Checks Notes* D.C.: The top law firms in Washington ranked!

Emhoff Class Is In Session: Maybe the Willkie lawyer is looking for an employer that isn’t planning to sell itself off to Trump.

Ma’am This Is An Arby’s (If The Arby’s Was A Contract Claim): Penn Law’s Amy Wax brought her First Amendment argument to a contract dispute and it went about as you’d expect.

How To Get Clients Beating A Path To Your Door: Turns out, making clients feel at ease has to begin before they’re even on board.

This State Is In Desperate Need Of Legal Assistance

Reminder: Google is not barred in any state.

3 Questions For Another Court Access Crusader (Part I)

The RECAP Archive gets a major enhancement.

It’s Time To Reconsider Technological Competency And The Value Of Legal Services

Tech competence isn’t just another checkbox -- it’s now foundational to how we fulfill every ethical duty we have.

Kirkland’s Nonequity Partners Are Such ‘Hot Sh*t’ That Almost All Other Biglaw Firms Have Been Driven To Copy Their Partnership Model

Biglaw's partnership prospects are changing, all because of Kirkland & Ellis.

Biglaw Partner Makes A Mistake, Decides To Respond With Humility And Humor

You don't have to freak out when you make a minor mistake.