by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
(Getty Images/Ezra Bailey) In this episode of “Be That Lawyer,” I sit down with Jennifer Gillman, President and Founder of Gillman Strategic Group, to break down a distinction that quietly shapes every legal career: the difference between lawyers who control their...
by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
In late 2022, soon after I launched The Legal Accountability Project (LAP) to correct injustices I experienced as a law student and law clerk, a clerk from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland told me he’d recently been reassigned, along with his...
by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
Chief Justice John Roberts is still “barely invited” to this year’s State of the Union, but the rest of us will have to absorb the festivities from the comfort of our own homes. As is the quasi-annual tradition at Above the Law, we have prepared a State of the Union...
by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
You are local counsel in a case. It’s 3 p.m. You just got the brief from national counsel that’s due to be filed in two hours. It’s 60 pages long and has 150 case citations. You have no way of knowing whether they are all to real cases or accurate. What do you do?...
by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Donald Trump fired me because of my fidelity to the rule of law instead of to him. I view it as a badge of honor for standing for the rule of law and the Constitution. The events of the last year have disturbed...
by HolAdmin | Feb 25, 2026 | American Legal News
When Trump gave the inaugural address for his second term, he promised to bring unity. In some ways he has — the American public is pretty united in not liking the guy according to the last Gallup presidential poll made public before they mysteriously decided to end...
