Above the Law

The Biglaw Love Shack — See Also

If The Office Is A Rockin’: It seems as though everyone at Wachtell was hooking up.

Anti-DEI Group Is Coming For The Biglaw Pipeline: They’ve filed suit against Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and 14 Biglaw firms.

Broken Clocks: Elon Musk brings a valid challenge to overbroad legislation.

Wondering Where Your Raises And Special Bonuses Are? If Biglaw firms weren’t waiting for Cravath, you’d have more money already.

How To Gain Visibility Through Featured Snippets

Understanding how Google selects pages and content for these featured snippets is the first step toward making sure your law firm appears in the top spot with greater frequency.

The Blickstein Group Law Firm COO Survey: The More Things Change, The More Some Things Stay The Same 

The businesspeople say one thing, the lawyers another. Just like always.

Senior Partners Should Sometimes Take Advice From Junior Associates

Sometimes the lawyer with the most useful information is the one with the least impressive title.

Associate Compensation Scoreboard: Milbank Unleashes Special Bonuses And Biglaw Continues To Wait For Cravath

It’s almost August, associates are still waiting, and the rest of Biglaw appears unwilling to act without Cravath’s approval.

The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban

From the fire-the-people-who-drafted-this-bill dept

Why Hims & Hers Is Embroiled In Yet Another Controversy, This Time With The FTC

The FTC and the states of Utah and California sued Hims & Hers, alleging it improperly shared consumers’ health information and misled customers about billing, subscriptions, and cancellations.

Morning Docket: 07.31.26

* Even if the Senate rejects Todd Blanche, he’s going to stay in the job indefinitely, no matter how questionably constitutional that may be. [Politico]

* Judge seems to think Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a security risk is bogus. [Law360]

* Lawyer seeks restraining order against client’s Congress member ex-husband. [CNN]

* Data brokers refusing requests to delete personal information. [Bloomberg Law News]

* State sues Kalshi on the grounds that it runs an illegal gambling site. [Reuters]

* Alien Terrorist Removal Court holds first-ever hearing. It only took 30 years. [Court Watch]

* Court hikes up AI misuse sanctions as nothing seems to be working. [ABA Journal]

Todd Blanche Is In Trouble — See Also

Todd Blanche Still Won’t Write Down The Promises He Swore To: It’s getting weird, tbh.

Fifth Amendment Right Against… What?: Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment even though his pardon should make self-incrimination impossible. But it’s a side effect of the rise of bad faith actors.

And Donald Trump Is Considering Betting Big On The Midterms: No, not on Kalshi (though, maybe, who knows) but with his AG nominee.

Spicy: Louisiana Supreme Court forcibly recuses their own Chief.

America’s Thirstiest Judge: Judge James Ho has a long record of defending birthright citizenship. He’s ready to denounce it all for a little bit of attention.

Supreme Unpopularity: Approval ratings for SCOTUS reach a historic low.

Temple’s First Football Jersey Patch Sponsor Is A Personal Injury Firm: Grungo Law joins the corporate company of SoFi, FedEx, and JPMorganChase.

Withdrawing The Attorney General Nominee Is Nothing New

About the plan to pull Trump's AG nominee...

Interactive Exercises For Lawyer Training: Get Off My Lawn

If you start a lawyer training session by saying we are going to start with a little fun game, you have lost your audience already.

AI Security Isn’t In The Price Tag

Courts are beginning to impose 'enterprise-grade' AI requirements that may do little more than price solos and small firms out of using the technology.

Q2 Report On Legal Tech Advertising Finds Q1’s Buying Surge Was Largely Seasonal, But Reveals Where Demand Is Now Concentrated

Demand for legal technology is not evenly distributed across the market. It is heavily concentrated in a handful of product categories and practice areas.

Judge James Ho Shakes His Moneymaker At Christian Legal Cabaret

It takes a certain flexibility ...

50 Public Speaking Tips Every Young Lawyer Should Learn

These are lessons learned after hundreds of presentations, seminars, webinars, speeches, and courtroom appearances.