by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Weil Insiders To Mike Aiello: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out! AI Is Now Making Up Witness Testimony: It’s not just fake cites anymore, but fake humans, too! Watch your filings, lest you face a benchslap like this lawyer. A Federal Judge Just Hit Pause On...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The Supreme Court met in borrowed rooms inside the Capitol, in a private house, and on occasion even in a tavern before the construction of One First Street. In what year did the Supreme Court finally...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Think about Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer. As far as I can tell, Cohen was an incompetent, a thug, and a criminal who mindlessly supported Trump. Cohen then had a change of heart. He became an incompetent, a thug, and...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 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 back! I hope August gave you some time to step away, look up, and enjoy the remains of summer. One of my favorite moments...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It shows that the issues were worse than we thought. The levels of distress were higher than we knew. — Patrick Krill, co-author of a new national study on lawyer wellness, in comments given to Reuters,...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Jeanine Donohue back to our pages. Click here if you’d like to donate to MothersEsquire. I live and work in...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Want to make a dent in the access-to-justice problem? Stop preaching and wringing your hands over how bad it is and start looking for a solution, even if it’s just a start. Which is exactly what the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD) recently did in...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
Eight months after Donald Trump “sued” the IRS and four months after the case was officially dismissed, the agency has finally sauntered into court in Florida to register its objection. Sort of. The only remaining legal question is whether to sanction Trump’s personal...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
We’ve officially moved beyond the “ChatGPT made up a few cases” stage of the artificial intelligence ethics crisis. Now, the robots are apparently inventing witnesses and police testimony in murder appeals. Progress! New Mexico attorney Stephen Aarons was held in...
by HolAdmin | Sep 15, 2026 | American Legal News
When Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced that corporate chair Michael Aiello was leaving for what it pointedly called “a smaller platform” (the platform in question being Cravath), it was tempting to read the line as a single flash of pique from a firm caught on the...
