by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Mythic Levels Of Self-Dealing: You kind of have to appreciate Patrick Davis’s hustle. Google Enshittification And Your Clients: You’re gonna need a new strategy to reach out. Big Names Across The Pond: Check out the UK’s top Biglaw firms! Supreme Court Declines To...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by Prof. Paul Caron, which law school’s average ultimate bar passage for the classes of 2022 and 2023 is predicted to be 100%? Hint: This prediction will put the law school...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Getty Images Every legal tech vendor demo in 2026 ends with an AI module, and most of them are impressive for about the first 15 minutes. The problem is that feature-by-feature comparisons of vendor AI offerings are unlikely to predict which tools will hold up over...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Bill Clinton is a scumbag. In the 1990s, multiple women (remember Paula Jones? Juanita Broaddrick?) credibly accused Clinton of sexual harassment (or worse). Clinton plainly abused his power in his relationship with Monica Lewinsky,...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If the original Magic Circle was defined by prestige, complexity and pricing power, then London already has a new one. Kirkland & Ellis. Latham & Watkins. Paul Weiss. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett....
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
It’s looking like the judges-police-each-other ball stops at the Supreme Court. Pauline Newman, supported by a slew of judges and former clerks, asked the Supreme Court to give her case a once over. The hope was that the glaring due process issues would catch Court’s...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Internet search keeps getting worse, continuing the enshittification process that started feeding you a bunch of ads for fly-by-night alternatives to the one thing you want and now pushes the real, organic results even further down below AI sludge attempting to answer...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
We all know that Biglaw firms in America did well in 2025, but what about their Biglaw counterparts across the pond in the United Kingdom? How did they fare when it came to their financial metrics last year? Thankfully, the latest edition of the UK Top 50 is out,...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
The Trump “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — the $1.776 billion slush fund the DOJ announced in May without congressional authorization, to pay out Trump allies including January 6 rioters, administered by Trump’s personal lawyer turned Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche,...
by HolAdmin | Jun 16, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! Hello from...
