by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Just ‘Plane’ Wrong: Alaska wants to take a man’s $95,000 plane because he didn’t notice a passenger bringing a six-pack of Bud on board. By the state’s reasoning, it’s perfectly reasonable that it’s only a $1,500 fine, but a $95,000 forfeiture. The Trump...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to SurePoint’s new 2026 Law School Hiring Report, in 2025, what percentage of Am Law 200 entry-level hires were graduates of T14 law schools? Hint: The dominance of the top 14 law schools in...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 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! As promised...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Over the years, I’ve noticed something interesting. The compliance conversations that drag on for weeks rarely end because lawyers finally found the right legal argument. They end because someone finally explained the problem in a way the business understood. I...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Every few years, in between collecting luxury gifts and vacations, Justice Thomas slaps together a concurrence literally no other justice would even consider as a prank, explaining that some load-bearing pillar of constitutional order is, on closer inspection,...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Members of Congress should not be permitted to profit from inside information. If a member of Congress learns material, nonpublic information about a company, the member is forbidden to trade in that company’s securities. Why can’t Congress pass that law? Shall we...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Law school is pretty expensive. One of the latest ways to deal with that is to become extremely good at Jeopardy!. We have a new reigning law student champion after Jamie Ding’s amazing $882,605 haul on the show this past spring. Now it’s Caleb Groen’s turn. The...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
The Supreme Court just took a new case to explore the nature of cruel and unusual punishment. Don’t worry, it’s not about halting a state’s plan to execute a scientifically exonerated man by dunking him in a chamber of sharks — which is presumably in the planning...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
The Justice Department has decided that the problem with the ABA’s lawsuit over the Biglaw executive orders is the lawyers bringing it. The ABA sued the administration over the Trump administration’s campaign of executive orders — stripping disfavored firms of...
by HolAdmin | Jul 21, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We all need to collectively move on in our thinking to get alternative fee arrangements working in the right way. — Sunny Mann, global chair of Baker McKenzie, in comments given during a recent appearance on...
