by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! How many of Clarence Thomas’s former clerks are on the federal bench? Hint: Thomas has the most former clerks in the federal judiciary. See the answer on the next page. The post Clarence Thomas’s...
by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Momentum dies when teams treat every decision like it is irreversible. Why Product Lawyers Need a Better Decision LensIn-house product counsel spend a surprising amount of time untangling slow decisions. Not because the legal issues are complex. Not because the team...
by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Another day, another federal judge having to explain to the Trump administration that court orders are not optional suggestions. This time, the lecture came from Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, who found that...
by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
We’ve talked a lot about the high-powered lawyers and famous legal luminaries who find themselves in the notorious Epstein files. So it’s only fair to point out that we here at Above the Law also found ourselves in the Department of Justice’s latest document dump. I...
by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Lawyers have a reputation for being bad at math. What better way to fix that reputation than by helping others crunch numbers? Something scarier than the Amityville House is upon us — tax season. Many of us could use some hand holding to figure out what we owe the...
by HolAdmin | Feb 10, 2026 | American Legal News
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images Set your mind back to November 4, 2024, one day before the presidential election. I know. That’s hard. Imagine that you were about to vote for Donald Trump for president. I know. That’s even harder. But if we...