Above the Law

Bot’s Not Nice

Exhausted, overwhelmed, and frustrated is the new bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.

AI Legal Research Startup Descrybe Launches ‘Legal Reasoning’ Tool; Says It Outperforms ChatGPT, Claude, And Gemini On Bar Exam Benchmark

DescrybeLM answered all 200 bar exam questions correctly. The general-purpose models each missed between 13 and 23 questions.

Legalweek’s Annual Judicial Panel: A Clear And Present Danger To Our Judges — And The Rule Of Law

We need to push back on statements by politicians and others denigrating our judges.

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.

The Line We Cannot Cross: Where AI In Law Is Headed And Why Judgment Still Must Lead

Will there be a point where we need to prevent AI from supplanting us?

Why UHS Is Acquiring Talkspace For $835M

Universal Health Services plans to acquire Talkspace for $835 million to create a national behavioral health platform that integrates virtual therapy with in-person care.

Morning Docket: 03.12.26

* DLA Piper abandoning verein structure. [Law.com International]

* DOJ lawyer who called out immigration system and asked to be held in contempt is now running for Congress. [NY Times]

* Women law professors rise to top of most-cited faculty list. [Reuters]

* Man faces serious criminal penalties for shoving weights in fish. Competitors knew something was… fishy. [Outdoor Life]

* Quinn Emanuel gets contempt ruling overturned. [Law360]

* Democrats want to look into Brad Bondi’s string of successful outcomes with his sister’s DOJ. [Reuters]

* Powerful lawyers had years to prepare for the Epstein files… and didn’t. [Law.com International]

Tiny Hands, Big Attitude — See Also

Donnie Throws Temper Tantrum Over Losing Fight With Biglaw: Tough time to be a DOJ lawyer!

Y’all Call This Supreme?: The public doesn’t think too highly of our highest court.

DOJ Attorney Resigns To Protect His Colleagues: The whole office would have gotten sanctioned with him otherwise.

Lawyer Found Guilty Of Systemic Sexual Abuse Of Children: He was convicted of 27 felony counts related to the sexual abuse of minors and having CSAM.

Merger Talks Are Heating Up: Is your firm next on the list?

War Costs: You — the person reading this — spent about $300 funding the war in Iran so far.

The Reality Of Courtroom Questioning Is Usually Less Dramatic

But it makes for a great movie.

Seven Essential Security Strategies For Law Firms And Legal Departments 

How your team can proactively build client and stakeholder confidence. 

Lawyer Convicted Of Systematic Sexual Abuse Of Children

The details are chilling.

DOJ Attorney Throws Himself Under The Bus Rather Than Dragging Down Everyone Else

Better to be an honest man later than never at all.

In ‘Angry Outburst,’ Donald Trump Demands DOJ Keep Defending His Unconstitutional Attacks On Biglaw

Because as we all know, the Justice Department is now Trump's personal law firm, so they must do as he says.

Chance The Rapper In Court Over Multimillion-Dollar Handshake Contract Dispute

Everything was not, in fact, good.