Above the Law

Why Did A Cell Phone Company Help Pay For The White House Ballroom? — See Also

We Asked T-Mobile Some Follow Up Questions: See if their answers are up to par.

Nice Experiment While It Lasted: Election law expert isn’t too excited about the future of voting.

It’s Only A Riot When They Do It!: DOJ places two federal prosecutors on leave after memo made a double bad reference to the January 6th riot event.

Show Them The Money!: Biglaw associates want their bonus money!

Red States Join Lawsuit To Get Food Stamps Back: Strange bedfellows in the fight against hunger.

AFAs Are Great — But They Won’t Stop AI Disruption

AFAs are great but they don’t mean we can just keep doing what we are doing and calling it a different name.

Red States Join Lawsuit To Fight End Of Food Assistance Programs

Red or Blue, making sure your people have enough food to eat is worth going to court over.

Law Schools Must Navigate The Surge Of Applicants And Look For Red Flags In A Politically Charged Era

While increased interest in legal education is good, all applications must be evaluated with greater scrutiny.

Time To Share The Wealth: Biglaw Faces Associate Demand For Special Bonuses In 2025

Biglaw associates definitely didn't forget about the Milbank summer bonuses, and they're expecting to make BANK come bonus season.

A Monthly Checklist For Upping Your Cash Flow

Want to kickstart your firm’s profitability? Learn how by downloading the guide.

I Asked My Cellphone Service Provider T-Mobile What The Deal Was With Its Donation To Trump’s White House East Wing Demolition

The list of donors to the ballroom project provided by the Trump administration contains some very big, mainstream names.

Zombie Planes And Other Pentagon Ghost Stories

Trick-or-treat: The Breaking Defense team talks about something truly scary — which Pentagon programs have been killed this year, and some that have come back to life.

Morning Docket: 10.29.25

* Meet the superstar team who have to convince the Supreme Court that the word “tariffs” does not appear in the IEEPA, which for some reason is an uphill battle. [National Law Journal]

* Ninth Circuit will convene en banc to reconsider giving Trump the power to send troops to assassinate costumed frogs. [CNN]

* Freshly pardoned former Binance chief threatens to sue Elizabeth Warren for saying he pleaded guilty to money laundering instead of pleading guilty to setting up the conditions to allow money laundering. Not sure how much reputational damage exists between that technicality trench. [NY Post]

* Cameo sues OpenAI claiming a feature named “cameo” violates their trademark. [Reuters]

* Another Trump U.S. Attorney found to be illegally squatting in the job. [Law360]

* D.C. Bar committee suggests firms who made deals with Trump have ethics issues. [NY Times]

* LinkedIn battles data scrapers to protect us all from a future where every AI response is about B2B marketing. [Bloomberg Law News]

What Do You Mean 3 or 7 Years? — See Also

DOJ Attorneys Casually Assume Third Trump Term At Oral Argument: That’s plainly unconstitutional.

Did They Outsource Editing Too?: Embarrassed Biglaw firm submits filing full of AI hallucinations.

(Halloween) Clothing Optional: SDNY Judge opts for a seasonally appropriate business casual dress code this Friday.

District Judge Makes It Very Clear That ICE Doesn’t Tear Gas Kids In Costumes: Damn shame they need the reminder.

Catch Up On Dateline: ‘Deadly Mischief’ takes the viewer on a tour of the Donna Adelson conspiracy case.

Everybody In Biglaw Wants Litigators

The new hot ticket in Biglaw is litigation.

Vals AI’s Latest Benchmark Finds Legal And General AI Now Outperform Lawyers In Legal Research Accuracy

Across all questions, the AI systems scored within four percentage points of one another and an average of seven points above the lawyer baseline.

Justice By Coin Toss: Leading Litigator Lands Major SCOTUS Argument Based On Heads Or Tails

Because when you're Neal Katyal, even fate wants you at the lectern.

Law School Runs Mock Trial Before Jury Of AI Chatbots As Dystopian Nightmare Accelerates

'Open the jailhouse doors, HAL.'

Federal Judge Doing The Most To Make Sure ICE Doesn’t Ruin Halloween

Border Patrol commander has to give daily reports to the irked judge.