Law Review Editor Goes On Ironic Power Trip
A journal editor calls out the staff for sub and cite errors in a poorly edited email.
Oops! Lawyer for Fortune 100 Company Wants Trial ‘On All The C**ts’
Typos are a part of life, but when they're this unfortunate, the only thing you can do is laugh.
The Hidden Threat: How Fake Identities used by Remote Employees Put Your Business at Risk—and How to Defend Against This
Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
The United States v. The United Kingdom
In which areas does the United Kingdom beat the United States? In-house columnist Mark Herrmann identifies a few.
Some Of You Talk Funny And Don’t Know How To Pronounce Your Own Career
Do you sound like Sam Waterston or Matthew McConaughey?
Above the Law Spelling Bee
Take the Above the Law Spelling Bee. You can spell better than Elie, but can you spell better than Google?
Lawyers Like Their Evidence Like They Like Their Dates: Cheap, Quick, and Easy
Behold the power of the internet: why hire an expert when a tool like this is available online?
The Fifth-Year Dilemma: Do I Stay Or Do I Go (In-House)?
How to make the right decision, and why there might be another way to shape a fulfilling legal career on your own terms.
Moonlighting: Why Law Firm Lawyers Care About Commas And In-House Lawyers Don’t
Susan Moon explains why you shouldn't sweat the small stuff when you're in-house counsel.
Rejection Letter of the Day: Srry, But Yuo Can’t Spel Gud
Here's a Biglaw rejection letter that was so ridden with typos that a tipster felt the need to send it to us.
Benchslap of the Day: A Public Shaming Is Great Motivation to Brush Up Your Legal Writing
Here's how one federal judge decided to deal with a lawyer who was a little too verbose in his pleadings...
Pol Dancing: D.C. Circuit Plays Words With Friends
Campaign finance statutes? Ha! The D.C. Circuit blows off your pesky "plain English" as an illusion.
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From Biglaw to Boutique: Grammar Police
As lawyers, words are our stock and trade. What is an argument but a collection of ideas, expressed in words, intended to persuade?
Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Discrimination Against People Who Can’t Speak English
How much English do you have to be able to speak in order to hold elected office? I don’t know, but apparently justices in Arizona think they know it when they hear it. Continuing Arizona’s quest to become the most racist state in the Union, the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed a ruling that prevented Alejandrina […]
Fun Fact of the Day: Talk Dirty to Me
Prosecutable hate speech in 17th-century Massachusetts included calling people “dogs,” “rogues” and even “queens” (though the last referred to prostitution); magistrates took serious umbrage at being labeled “poopes” (“dolts”). — John McWhorter, the noted linguist, in his New York Times review this past weekend of Speaking American: A History of English in the United States. […]
Grammer Pole of the Weak: For ‘Who’ the Bell Tolls?
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. Last week, we learned that 59% of our readers would never use “their” in the place of “his or […]
Grammer Pole of the Weak: When Did ‘Their’ Start Replacing ‘His or Her’?
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. Last week, we found out that our readers, 81% of them, in fact, couldn’t care less about being polite […]