Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

Remember when Trump lost the birthright citizenship case? Because he doesn't.

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Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn't forfeit the firm's independence, Paul Weiss reportedly

And summer bonuses have arrived.

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The profession yet again forced law school graduates to take a closed-book doctrinal memory test to earn the right to perform a job where answering questions from memory constitutes malpractice. And, yet again, the ritual came with a series of catastrophes and a fully canceled test. In

And Todd Blanche keeps trying to get over the Judiciary speedbump.

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The biggest story in legal last week was an unfortunate guerrilla antagonizing of a couple making out on a park bench... who just ha...

Maybe in several years, we can get it back.

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A Vault 50 law firm announced deep staff layoffs -- upward of 10 percent -- last week. Is this a sign of things to come -- a byproduct of AI pressure and a precarious economy...

From firms to law schools, innocent bystanders take heat.

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Everyone talks about conflicts and redundancies, but the saddest merger collateral damage is forcing legacy lawyers to