Robe Rage: Angry Judge Gives Some Unsolicited Parenting Advice On The Heel Of Pulling A Rifle On His Stepson
Hard to establish order in the court with a rattled temperament.
Understanding And Working With Anger And Other Difficult Emotions Through Mindfulness
How do you cope mindfully in situations where you’re seeing red?
What Biglaw Can Learn From Personal Injury Firms
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
Bitter Attorney Shares Hard Truths With Law Firm Receptionist
And, looking back, the receptionist is grateful.
Bar Examinee Hilariously Lashes Out At Prep Companies
The bar exam is a lot of pressure and eventually someone had to crack.
In Defense Of The Kirkland Partner’s Controversial Email
People come to the defense of an email message they view as both hilarious and necessary.
Did This Biglaw Partner Act Like A Big Tool? Let’s Discuss
Is this partner's firm-wide email awful, or entertaining, or both?
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
This Guy Is Not Pleased He Didn’t Get Into Harvard Law
Harvard Law ripped in rejected student's hashtag-laden rant.
Document Reviewer Gets Angry At Staffing Agency — Hilarity Ensues
Ever want to rant to the entire world about your cr@ppy job? That's what one doc reviewer did in an epic Craigslist ad.
2012 Law Grad Has Thanksgiving Message of Threats And Recriminations for Law School Faculty
An unhappy recent law grad flips a Thanksgiving bird to his law school...
Lawyer of the Day: Former Cravath Associate’s Law License Suspended After Assault Conviction
Yesterday, a former Cravath associate had his law license suspended for three years by a New York court. For several years now, the young former associate has been dealing with some serious legal troubles. Michael Zulandt was a Cravath associate in New York (we mentioned the story earlier today in Morning Docket). In 2008, he […]
How Checkbox’s ‘Legal Front Door’ Can Transform Your Workflow
Leveraging agentic AI to triage, prioritize, and automate the law department inbox.
Quote of the Day: Sounds Like Someone Needs A Little Vacation
This is the worst piece of whoring journalism I have read in a long time. How long are you going to suck [U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara]’s teat? All to hurt a decent, honest witness, [whom assistant U.S. attorney Reed] Brodsky could not lay a glove on. It did not work. The jury was not impressed […]
Emory Law Student Lament: ‘We don’t need donuts, we need jobs.’
When times are tough, the tough get… whiny? A law student at Emory is frustrated by the lack of jobs being offered up by Career Services and circulated an email airing his or her discontent. Addressed to “My Fellow Emory Law Students,” it lambasts the employees charged with helping Emory grads land jobs. It’s available […]
Emails to Partners That Can Never Be Sent
Here at Above the Law, we like to provide a service to our readers. Sometimes things happen at a law firm that you just can’t talk about to your colleagues. But you can always tell us. Last week, we corresponded with a frustrated attorney. Despite the fact that he’s quite senior and has changed firms […]
The Solo Practitioner Strikes Back
Richard Zachary is a solo practitioner in Chicago who has mixed it up with Biglaw many times in his career… and has come away unimpressed. In a recent filing in Cook County Court, he vented about the shortcomings of the big firm lawyers he’s come up against. He’s currently representing an individual suing a corporation […]