Above the Law

Law School Sues Government For Right To Get Back To Collecting Tuition While Students Fail The Bar

And now we enter the final act.

Questions To Ask Before Going In-House

In some ways, you won’t know whether you’ll like it until you try it.

The Biglaw Firms That General Counsel Recommended Most During The Pandemic (2021)

A ranking of the law firms that successfully guided their clients through the most turbulent time of our lives.

Cost-Cutting Generics And Biosimilars Stuck In Legal Limbo

Many believe that the biosimilar industry can address the issue of spiraling drug costs, but first it has to make it through a thicket of challenges.

Morning Docket: 07.22.21

* OCI numbers are down. Who needs a job anyway? [Law360]

* Hey, M&A people! FTC is watching. [Bloomberg Law]

* Law professor makes argument against legal AI that just happens to keep him employable. [ABA Journal]

* Put your money where your team is! Sports gambling likely to be legal soon in North Carolina. [WRAL]

* You off the Zaza? Amazon supports you. [Politico]

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].

You’re The Best Around — See Also

If You Ain’t First You’re Last: Vault 100 is out.

Way Harsh, Tai: Judge mocks attorney trying to parlay a morning funeral into a hearing delay. I think the judge was right, but maybe this was too mean. What do you think?

I Can’t Have A Baby Because I Have A 12:30 Lunch Meeting: The law is notoriously bad about pushing the limits of what maternity leave means, but I think any reasonable definition would exclude “taking on murder cases.”

Dear, For Your Information The Supreme Court Has Roundly Rejected Prior Restraint: Bill O’Reilly found a judge who hadn’t heard of that.

This Biglaw Firm Isn’t As Prestigious As It Used To Be

The price of controversy?

O’Reilly Accuser Booted From ‘The View’ After Court Issues Restraining Order

Prior restraint, FTW.

CMS Proposes Fining Hospitals Up To $2M Annually For Not Following Price Transparency Rule

CMS' latest proposed rule, which includes stringent penalties for hospitals that are found to be flouting the price transparency rule, comes on the heels of an analysis showing that a vast majority of hospitals are not in compliance with the regulation that went into effect on Jan. 1.

The IRS Should Get The Funding They Need So Long As They Treat Taxpayers Fairly

Most agree that increasing funding to the IRS could reduce the tax gap that will help fund the infrastructure spending bill.

Biglaw Firm’s Hybrid Reopening Policy Will Allow Lawyers To Control Their Own Schedules

The firm also has a voluntary vaccination policy.

Dog-Napping Lawyer Ordered To Return Pooch

Attorney couple wages custody battle over dog.

Now Live At The Non-Event: AI Is AOK!

Make artificial intelligence your BFF.

SPARC Extinguished

A SPAC is apparently a SPAC after all.

Don’t Sweat The Supposedly COVID-Related Stock Market Volatility

The truth is, the vast majority of the time, we simply do not know why the stock market does what it does on a daily basis.