Clients Need To Mind Their Own Business About Returning To The Office
Jones Day continues to be a black box -- let's break that open. Morgan Stanley is urging its outside counsel to get back to the office. To w...
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Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
Thinking Like A Lawyer is a podcast featuring Above the Law’s Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice. Each episode, the hosts will take a topic experienced and enjoyed by regular people, and shine it t...
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The Greatest Legal Research Hack
What can you do if you don't have the law on your side? Have you considered telling the judge that legal research is an insult to you both?...
Supremely Disappointing
The SCOTUS Term is over and so is any remotely text-based interpretation of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Alito pulled off a smooth rewriti...
So, You're Saying Billing To Non-Existent Matters Is Frowned Upon?
Joe and Kathryn welcome Chris Williams, the newest writer to the Above the Law staff, to discuss the latest Above the Law law school ranking...
Supreme Court Treats NCAA Like Amateurs
The NCAA's amateurism model got obliterated 9-0 by the Supreme Court, with a concurrence inviting more lawsuits to tear the whole thing down...
Associate Pay Jumps To $205K
Biglaw firms are furiously matching salary increases this week, and Joe and Kathryn walk through the latest announcements, how we got here,...
FedSoc Babies Won't Stop Whining
Stanford responded swiftly to the outcry over threatening a law student's graduation because he made jokes about Josh Hawley, but what's not...
No One's Where They Expected To Be
More law firms announce that they aren't expecting associates to be back full-time in the office in the fall. More law schools announce that...
Summer Vacations? Maybe Not For Lawyers
Infinite vacation time sounds great until you place yourself inside the passive-aggressive crucible of a law firm. Management is probably ge...
Yes, You Still Need To Check Your Zoom Name Before Logging In
Joe and Kathryn discuss the latest legal Zoom fail as a defendant flirts with contempt after his sister changed his Zoom moniker to some sor...
Law School Professor Just Won't Stop Begging To Use Racial Slurs
Eugene Volokh used his blog to whine some more about how his constant demands to be respected for throwing around racial epithets in class k...
Rudy Giuliani Is The Dumbest Lawyer Ever, Right?
Obviously, we're not advocating for spoliation of evidence or obstruction of justice, but... shouldn't Rudy Giuliani of all people known not...
Don't Throw Clients Under The Bus, Unless They're Protesters
A couple of stories out of Littler Mendelson this week, as one partner disappears from the website after pointing the finger at his client i...
Are Billing Rates Too Darn High?
A Supreme Court expansion proposal is officially out there. It's not going to pass, it's not a particularly good idea, but might proposing i...
The First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
When Yale suspended one of its high profile professors for two years citing a pattern of sexual harassment, one wondered if the penalty went...
Does The T14 Even Matter? Asking For Some Hoyas.
Not since the NCAA tournament has Georgetown been so hyped and so disappointed. The GULC fell out of the vaunted "T14" in the US News Law Sc...
What Does It Mean To Be A Market Leader?
As special bonus season intensifies, Kathryn muses about compensation leadership and what the value of going big. Joe talks about vaccines a...
Springtime For Biglaw Bonuses
After Willkie Farr announced another round of seasonal bonuses, Davis Polk went over the top and announced another two rounds of bonuses. Th...
Are We Still Citing Judge Kozinski As An Expert?
Kathryn is not pleased with the mainstream press continuing to cite Judge Kozinski as an ethics authority. Joe and Kathryn talk Zoom netique...
Who Wins The Jingle War: Cellino Or Barnes?
Quick, what was the phone number for Cellino & Barnes? A lot of you probably got that right immediately. But the firm split up a few years a...