Above the Law

Supreme Court Justices Spend Opinion Sniping At Each Other — See Generally

SCOTUS Justices Spend 170 Pages Airing Office Drama: Supreme Court nukes Trump’s tariffs and treat us to all their petty grievances. Except for Thomas who just wrote some ramblings about the powers of the crown.

Another Biglaw Firm Decides Two’s Company When It Comes To Partnership Tiers: Global giant unveils shiny nonequity track and tweaked lockstep, pushing the single-tier partnership model doomsday clock closer to midnight.

Trump Judge Admits The Constitutional House Is On Fire: If it’s not yet a “constitutional crisis,” it’s rounding third with a head of steam.

DOJ Plays ‘Name The Crime’ And Loses: Trump administration wanted to prosecute Democratic lawmakers but never bothered to figure out a single statute that got broken.

No Facts, Pound The Law. No Law, Pound The Table. No Table, Pound The… Uh Oh: Texas prosecutors argue that a defendant masturbating during testimony wasn’t “inappropriate” if the judge and jury didn’t notice.

Another Am Law 100 Firm Discovers AI Is Not A Lawyer: Major firm accused of filing a hallucination-laced brief. When will this end?

Pentagon Decide Its Lawyers Need To Be Dumber: Defense Department tells future military lawyers that they can no longer attend the best law schools in the country.

Deposition Advice Of The Year Goes To “I’ll F—ing Kill You”: Brevity is the soul of wit and depostion responses.

Judge Declares Mistrial Over Shirt: Lawyer’s civil rights celebration shirt causes judge to cry bias.

Law Professor Arrested On 50 Counts Of Child Sexual Abuse Material: Barry University law professor and interim associate dean arrested in Florida; prosecutors say hundreds of thousands of images were found.

FBI Lied To Seize Georgia Voting Records — See Also

FBI Omitted Crucial Facts To Get What They Wanted: They didn’t let truth get in the way of revenge.

SCOTUS Justices Swing Over How Wrong They Are: Related, Trump’s tariffs were unconstitutional.

Are You Taking The Piss?: Report says judge who allegedly urinated himself during traffic stop had a BAC over 3x the legal limit.

Sometimes A Death Threat Is Just A Good Attorney-Client Relationship: Les Wexner’s lawyer gets caught on a hot mic.

Penn Law Students Taught How To Deal With ICE: Knowing your rights is a big first step!

Pentagon CTO Says It’s ‘Not Democratic’ For Anthropic To Limit Military Use Of Claude AI

‘What we're not going to do is let any one company dictate a new set of policies above and beyond what Congress has passed,’ Under Secretary Emil Michael said of the ongoing impasse between the Pentagon and Anthropic.

Clients Have Little Bandwidth For Legal Tasks

The clients aren't trying to break your will to live.

Clients And GenAI: Lawyers Better Be Ready To Deal With It

Bottom line: if lawyers aren’t careful, they will face an erosion of trust in the attorney-client relationship as their judgment and advice is substituted for that of AI.

On-Demand Webinar: What Winning Expert Testimony Looks Like

Video excerpts from our recent panel exploring all things expert testimony in 2026. CLE credit is available.

Penn Law Students Host Rights Training For ICE Encounters

Know your rights!

Authoritarian Chic: DOJ Debuts Massive Trump Banner

A little lite Stalin-ification... what could possibly go wrong?!?

From Experimentation To Enablement: The State Of AI For In-House Legal

Four hundred fifty-two law department professionals share their views on the true scope of AI adoption.

‘A, B, C, D, F, U’: Field Sobriety Test For Federal Judge Who Allegedly ‘Urinated Himself’ Goes Remarkably Off Script

Police report says jurist with an alleged .27 BAC repeatedly invoked his title.

It Looks Like The FBI Straight Up Lied To A Judge To Get Permission To Seize Georgia Voting Records

From the stacking-the-midterm-deck dept

Morning Docket: 02.20.26

* Files reveal Kathy Ruemmler conferred with Jeffrey Epstein on Secret Service prostitution scandal. On the one hand, it’s important to confer with experts. On the other… [Yahoo Finance]

* “A furious daughter has sent an email to hundreds of law firms alleging that a legal recruiter had an affair with her father. The outraged daughter sent the email with the subject heading of “WHORE”…” [Roll on Friday]

* DHS issues new order asserting more authority to potentially detain legal refugees. [PBS]

* JPMorgan Chase argues Donald Trump fraudulently added them to his $5B debanking LOLsuit. [CNN]

* Practicing for 17 years after losing license earns $30,000 sanction. [ABA Journal]

* Trump nominating his lawyer from E. Jean Carroll losses to the Eighth Circuit. [National Law Journal]

* DOJ claims former Google engineers took trade secrets to Iran. So, soon, the Iranians will have their search results buried under 30 sponsored links too. [Law360]

Law Professor Arrested On Over 50 Counts In CSAM Case — See Also

The Barry University School of Law Professor Is Alleged To Have Thousands Of Images: The Dow won’t protect him.

Second Time The Error: Gordon Rees gets caught in another AI hallucination mishap!

Want To Brush Up On International Law?: These schools should be at the top of your list!

Trial Attorney Pens Legal Thriller: The story is set in Florida during the Reefer Madness era.

Want Some Advice On Being A Lawyer?: Here’s a list of 100 things!

That’s A Lot Of Giving Back!: 3Ls did millions of hours of pro bono work in 2025!

Prince Andrew Makes Modern History In Epstein Case

Not being sent to the Tower at least.

Harvey Partners With … Well, Harvey, Its Namesake, As Brand Spokesperson

The Harvey in question — the non-AI one, that is — is Gabriel Macht, the actor who played the role of lawyer Harvey Specter in the television series Suits.