Above the Law
Above the Law is a legal news and commentary outlet focused on the culture, business, and power dynamics of the legal profession.
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5 Legal Business Development Clichés That Are Only Half True (opens the original)
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There are certain legal business development and marketing clichés that lawyers hear so often that they eventually accept them as fact. Do great work and the business will follow. It is all about who you know. Networking is a numbers game. Give first and the business will co
Finding Your Place In The Practice Of Law (opens the original)
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When a job does not fit, we tend to assume we are the problem. Everyone else seems comfortable. They understand the partners, enjoy the work, and know how to get through the day. We sit in the same meetings and wonder what we are missing. We worked hard to get here. We wanted this job. We should be grateful. So we stay quiet, work harder, and hope that whatever feels wrong will eventually feel right. Sometimes it does. Sometimes we spend years trying to become someone who would be happy doing a
Biglaw Firm's Top-Ranked Insurance Practice Decides It Doesn't Need The Biglaw Firm - Above the Law (opens the original)
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Biglaw firm Wiley Rein’s insurance coverage practice is no longer Wiley’s insurance coverage practice. On Thursday, 12 partners and nine other lawyers left the Am Law 200 firm to launch Tyka, a Washington, D.C. boutique that will represent insurers and only insurers in their big ticket cases. The group is led by Ben Eggert, who will serve as Tyka’s managing partner, and Kim Melvin, who co-chaired Wiley’s insurance practice alongside him. They’re bringing the carrier relationships and five practi
Trump Regrets His Supreme Court Picks Because They Keep Voting Against Him - Above the Law (opens the original)
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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Yeah. Yeah. What can I do? I put them in. They voted against me too often. I was very — I gave them the position of a lifetime, and they vote against me often. — President Donald Trump, telling Time that he regrets nominating Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett because they have ruled against him “too often,” according to Reuters. Although Trump acknowledged that he likes loyalty, he insisted that
AI, And Experts, And Hallucinations, Oh My! - Above the Law (opens the original)
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If you’ve been paying attention, you know that AI is impacting litigation at a record pace. No stage of court proceedings has been immune from the sometimes careless — and very rapid rate of — AI adoption in our profession. From the initial pleadings to trial and every step in between, litigants are indiscriminately relying on AI, often to the detriment of both their law licenses and the justice system overall. For example, prompt injections have entered the courtroom. There have been recent ins
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