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Let's see if it pays off as well as a billionaire covering up an affair.-----Donald Trump's hush money trial kicks off after a week of Trump alienating everyone involved in the process by refusing to respect basic decorum and attempting to sk
We continue breaking down the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings and the chaos that its new methodology introduced. And we know exactly who to blame for breaking these rankings. Elon Musk recently went in for a deposition defended by
Haphazard ranking serves as a reminder that service hasn't quite found the right formula after law schools started withdrawing their data. _______________The full U.S. News & World Report law school rankings are out and they are... something.
Breaking down the action-packed final week of March.___________Special guest Liz Dye joins us to talk about the week that was. First, we delve into the abortion pill oral argument where even most of the conservatives scoffed at the right-wing
Conservative justices can't stop telling on themselves when it comes to forum shopping.__________________Joe Biden says he got a standing ovation for trying to BS his way through a law school cold call. We call BS on that. Also Cooley Law Sch
Parental leave and a bumbling Supreme Court highlight the week._____________________________Are law firms going to get stingy with parental leave? While most firms report solid revenue, sparking resentment over a few weeks of leave seems like
Bond... unaffordable cash bond._________________________________Donald Trump needed to put up some cash before E. Jean Carroll can begin executed the judgment she has against him. Instead, Trump tried to argue that he was simply too rich to p
Another firm begins cracking down on office attendance through punishment. Law firms want lawyers back in the office, but if they don't want associates spending that office time fielding calls from recruiters, it's time to consider incentives t
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are living children for the purposes of Alabama law. And while there are a lot of serious implications for the future of family fertility efforts, let's take a second to consider how much this
Even-keeled professionalism may pay off over time, but being a mercurial lunatic always pays off now.______________________________Former Trump aide Stephen Miller used Super Bowl week to launch a stunt employment discrimination complaint aga
We're reaching peak Alina saturation.___________Last week may have officially been "Legalweek" but it was bad lawyer week at Above the Law, where Alina Habba dominated traffic with her ongoing futility. Her rapid retreat from the very phony "
Sometimes you can't actually fake being smart._________________________________________________Alina Habba may soon be replaced in the Trump legal team constellation, but we'll always have memories of her crackerjack legal analysis and the st
'The only rules are there are no rules' apparently doesn't fly in Judge Kaplan's courtroom.____________________________________We don't even talk about Alina Habba's weird swimsuit thing on the show because it broke after we wrapped recording
Who needs a judge's approval to start ranting in court? Every other person ever, you say?___________________________________________________Donald Trump's legal team informed Justice Arthur Engoron that their client would deliver closing rema
Maybe GPT-5 will want a free RV?_______________________________________________The Chief spent his entire annual report on the federal judiciary on the rise of artificial intelligence and how AI cannot possibly replace judges because the judg
The highs and mostly lows from the year that was.__________________________________________As we turn the page to 2024, we reminisce over the top stories at Above the Law over the past year. Layoffs, salary hikes, ethical quagmires at the Sup
Law firms may hem and haw about raises, but they're still doing more than all right for themselves. Rudy's defamation trial did not go well. Before the latest development in the case, we talked about Michael Cohen's fake case brief and the impl
No one wants to admit weakness, but K&L Gates trying to put a smiling face on layoffs left a lot of observers cold. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller is mongering about a conspiracy to make Taylor Swift famous that somehow doesn't revolve around her ta
Payable sometime in 2024... of course.________________________Milbank got the ball rolling several weeks ago with a round of raises. Cravath has now upped the ante for more senior associates and the Biglaw landscape has finally decided to pil
Elon Musk files a facially ludicrous lawsuit and Trump argues that sexual assault doesn't count on airplanes_____________After promising a thermonuclear lawsuit against Media Matters, Elon Musk showed up to court with a string of claims that
Donald Trump sought a mistrial in his New York trial based, in part, on our articles being "humorous, irreverent." The GOP frontrunner did not succeed. Ron DeSantis messed with the rights of professors and now has to pick up the tab for their B
It's been over a week and no firm has yet to announce that it will match Milbank's latest series of raises. Or, more accurately, cost of living adjustments. Meanwhile, Cravath took the plunge on income partnerships, becoming the latest firm to
For most major law firms, the prospect of representing Donald Trump and stamping the firm's name on his nutty pet arguments is a non-starter. Over at Nixon Peabody, the firm jumped right in, bringing on the former president as a client and fili
Stroock strikes out.--------------We thought the end might be near for Stroock & Stroock & Lavan when we recorded this episode. We were right. And with that, the Biglaw world moves to exclusively one or fewer ampersands. A senior lawyer tried
LSAT's decision is not totally... illogical.-----------The LSAT is ditching logic games from upcoming tests and the Above the Law gang is conflicted over whether or not that's a good thing. There's a good argument that the section disproporti
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