2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (307+ words) Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law. She has written for ATL in various capacities since August 2010. Her writing has also appeared in other publications, such as POLITICO, Judgepedia, Lawyerist, and Ms. JD. Staci graduated from Lehigh…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (138+ words) Meanwhile, the whole thing is back at the U.S. Supreme Court — which already blessed the Missouri supreme court decision — after Republican judges on the Eighth Circuit approved district judge’s collateral attack on state decision. [One First] The company is emphasizing ‘white…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (261+ words) Joe Patrice joined Above the Law in 2013. Joe received a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Oregon and a J.D. from the NYU School of Law. From 2001, he worked as a litigator for both Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (303+ words) As long as the check isn't 'tied in any way' to the judicial service, it's all good. A judicial ethics panel has looked at the increasingly common arrangement of a law student cashing a Biglaw check while working, unpaid, inside…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (375+ words) Pangram-mania is everywhere and all it proves is how little its fans care about critical thinking. Instead, he seems to have blocked me. Lawprofblawg already wrote up the risks of journals arbitrarily screening submissions through a questionable AI tool more…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (181+ words) Last year, we featured a documentary from Minor Character Theater about Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, the former general counsel to the Willy Wonka Chocolate company as his C-Suite slowly drives him insane with illegal lotteries, rampant labor violations, and…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (243+ words) The dean kept his word. Welp, a deal is a deal. Elon University School of Law Dean Zak Kramer made his students a promise: hit an 85% first-time bar passage rate as a class, and he’d get a tattoo in their…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (126+ words) * Federal judge addresses still available online even though we passed a law to shield those. [ABA Journal] * New York's best dressed lawyers. [Business Insider] * Trump's effort to use Post Office to disrupt voting reminds of Andrew Jackson censoring abolitionist mail....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (146+ words) Legal expertise is table stakes, not a differentiator. Here's what you need to set yourself apart. Chaka Patterson, founder and CEO of Chaka Strategy and author of The Hot Seat: Mastering the Public Company General Counsel Role, joins me to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (501+ words) Ah, the Florida Bar. Truly the 'Florida Man' of state bars. Then Pam Bondi got booted from office and over 120 scholars, practitioners, and former judges wrote to remind the Florida Bar that this obliterates its lone excuse for not taking…...