by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 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. Hello First Monday! What is a “First Monday” edition? Every Monday here at the LER you receive a summary of the top ten legal...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
At a recent discussion, someone offered a wonderfully practical way to think about building software: If you want deep-dish pizza, why would you buy the restaurant? I immediately thought about enterprise technology meetings. Someone wants a faster way to review...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
I’m a conservative investor. All my spare cash goes into low-cost index funds, and my wealth increases as the economy expands. My strategy has served me reasonably well in recent decades. Last week, for the first time ever in my life, I made an investment based...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
Wherever there’s a conservative temper tantrum, Jonathan Turley will be there. Turley’s late-stage career is basically a wrestling gimmick, casting himself to right-wing media as a “Democrat” law professor making a heel turn. The George Washington Law professor...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
Bar exam results for the July administration are almost all in, and the class of 2026 is not going to love them. As Reuters reports, pass rates fell in California and the other big-volume jurisdictions this summer… and in the Golden State’s case, it wasn’t close. The...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
You probably have a rough idea of when you’d like to stop practicing. What happens the Monday after is a different question, and the answers are easier to find before you get there. Most of what makes this transition go well gets decided years earlier. Here are five...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Everyone has to look out for number one at this point. Everyone has to find new jobs. I understand that [Biglaw] is a very cut-throat environment, but just the level of greed combined with the lack of...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
Last week, the legal tech world convened at Suffolk Law School for the seventh installment of the American Legal Technology Awards. Once an online event held during the depths of COVID, the annual gala bringing so many people under the same roof serves as a moment to...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | American Legal News
Last month, we wondered what our readers thought would scare a lawyer the most. As first seen on Facebook’s Shit Women With Law Degrees Say, there are some phrases that will simply make lawyers cower in fear. But which phrases are the scariest of all? Just before...
by HolAdmin | Nov 3, 2026 | African Golf News
The Boks want to play Marco van Staden and Jan-Hendrik Wessels more in the second leg of the Nations Championship, hence the selection of only two specialist hookers. So says Rassie Erasmus, after selecting Wessels as Malcolm Marx’s back-up for Saturday’s clash...
