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This Strategic Info Will Help You Win Business And Cases

Lex Machina’s Outcome Analytics stand apart in enabling you to make confident, data-driven decisions in varied areas of your practice. Here’s how.

The Streamlined Future Of Civil Litigation

The great remotening paved the way for new efficiencies, and your practice can be at the forefront. Join us on October 6th for the answers.

Biglaw Firms Can Be A Liability To Clients

One of the biggest liabilities of Biglaw shops are their high fees.

If I Owned Hell And Texas, I’d Live In Hell And Rent Out Texas

Well-founded criticism ultimately comes from a place of admiration.

Law School In Noncompliance With ABA Standards Over Financial Condition

The school is planning its response.

Neither Novel Nor Procedural Nor Questions

What's a shadow docket?

Morning Docket: 09.08.21

* Even Britney Spears’s dad thinks it’s time for the conservatorship to be up. Womanizer no more? [Reuters]

* Texas snitch hotline bling’ed to a different platform because of meme lords. [The Guardian]

* Increasingly, Trumpers are the ones saying “L’etat c’est moi.” You either die a swamp drainer or live to become the bog. [CBS News]

* In today’s episode of good news elsewhere: Mexico’s Supreme Court rules criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional. I wonder if they invoked any penumbras‽ [CNN]

* Finally, here’s the content your inner child has been craving. Cheers to being the person Steve knows you could be. [EW.com]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected].

Former Biglaw Attorney Accused Of What?!?! — See Also

Former Biglaw Lawyer Accused Of Injecting Blood Into Food At Three Grocery Stores: That’s… not something you hear everyday.

Yeah, Don’t Sleep With Your Clients: A lesson this partner is learning the hard way.

This Isn’t Your Typical Murder Story: Cue the side eye. 

Maybe Georgia Shouldn’t Be So Gleeful Over Wrongful Imprisonment: Seriously, it’s a bad look.

Judge Overrules Horse Paste Ruling: We live in the dumbest timeline.

This Judge Doesn’t Seem Happy With Unmasked Attorneys: Which, fair enough.

Ready To Bet The Company? Try These Biglaw Firms

The best firms according to ATL's GC survey.

On The Agenda

The need for IP lawyers to become as expert as they can in the mechanics, marketplace, and marketing of litigation finance has become even more pronounced in our COVID-era practices.

Feds Slap UPMC, Cardiothoracic Surgery Chair With Billing Fraud Suit

The lawsuit alleges that UPMC and the chair of its cardiothoracic surgery department knowing submitted false claims for concurrent surgeries that violated regulations. But, according to UPMC, there is no regulation that prohibits overlapping surgeries or billing for them.

How To Steer Clear Of The Data Breach Headlines

Why law firms are so exposed, and some horrifying examples of business email compromise, in the latest Non-Eventcast.

Wow! Georgetown Totally Nailed It When It Came To 2021 Admissions

Holy crap. These numbers are absolutely out of this world.

The 2021 Outside Counsel Rankings: The Top Law Firms According To GCs

The firms you want to call.

‘So You’ve Been Wrongfully Sentenced To Life’ Escape Room Premiers In State That Routinely Wrongfully Sentences People To Life

Cruel and unusual enjoyment.