"One of the great journalists of our time at a venerable institution for investigative journalism... Joe Patrice at Above the Law" -- Judge William Pryor (Somehow I think he might’ve not meant that earnestly)
This is why you can't make attorneys work around the clock.
Is Anyone At Wachtell NOT Hooking Up? - Above the LawIf you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says / '15 miles to / Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz'abovethelaw.comThe new bar exam proved a complete disaster in multiple states. Remember how smug all these people were when California screwed up its exam? Karma!
The California Bar Exam Was A Disaster, NCBE And Missouri: 'Hold My Beer' - Above the LawThis post is about Missouri. There are other states suffering.abovethelaw.comMeta destroyed real journalism’s ability to make money through advertising and now… here we are
Mike MasnickSo as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?
I wonder what it would look like it his own party wasn't more interested in attacking him than Rogers.
Simon RosenbergEl-Sayed's results here - trailing Rogers by 10 - is the worst performance by a Democratic candidate in any Senate battleground general election poll this entire cycle.
Spoiler alert... it did. We'll have a lot more to say tomorrow. Chasing down leads now.
The Bar Exam Is Here, Which Means Something Is About To Go Horribly Wrong - Above the LawIt's a grand tradition of chaos, and we want to hear all about it.abovethelaw.comReminder that if there’s a single group responsible for the Nazis coming to power it was the “Centre Party”
Adam H JohnsonCentrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.
Allow me to explain how Wachtell is basically the Road Runner.
Makeout Video Elevates Wachtell To The Internet's Main Character - Above the LawThe firm that once assigned associates to translate memes for the partners has become a meme.abovethelaw.comKagan’s defense of the MAGA justices makes no sense and if she believes this, it suggests she has no idea the great responsibility she has as a public figure.
Elena Kagan Thinks The Supreme Court Gets 'A Bad Rap, Which Is Either A Lie Or Dangerously Naive - Above the LawThe justice threw her liberal colleagues under the bus... for nothing.abovethelaw.comThe real scandal is that they weren't billing in the middle of the day!
Biglaw Partner-Associate Public Makeout Sesh Posted On Social Media - Above the LawBiglaw having its Coldplay Kiss-Cam moment.abovethelaw.comThe problem with voter ID laws is that white people are NOT overconfident. It's a "velvet rope regime" where white people's shoddy ID will be "good enough" and Black people's identical ID gets scrutinized and votes possibly thrown out by some 2020 election denialist running a local board.
Josh ChafetzWould love to see how these results--which test voters' *perceptions* of whether they could provide proof of citizenship--line up with how easily various subsets of voters *actually could* produce proof of citizenship. In particular ... (1/2)
The federal government's hacking law is so broad it's been used against reporters using another person's HBO Go password, but OpenAI's models broke out and launched a multi-vector attack on Hugging Face and no one seems to be talking about charges.
OpenAI's New Model Hacked A Website On Its Own... Humans Would Go To Prison For That - Above the LawEvery element of a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation seems to be sitting right there in OpenAI's own announcement.abovethelaw.comHeartbreaking: These former DOJ lawyers say they had to abide by basic legal ethics while working for the government.
Over 500 Former DOJ Lawyers Explain How They *Somehow* Managed Jobs Without Massive Ethical Violations - Above the LawThe Trump DOJ claims government lawyers need immunity from professional consequences. Past DOJ attorneys disagree.abovethelaw.comI've lived long enough to see Critical Race Theory cynically ported into Originalism to support the proposition that "the Constitution is structurally racist and that's awesome." What a time to be alive.
Joe DudekFrom Flowers's brief on behalf of Richard Epstein in the birthright case: We must always remember that the framers were deeply racist, so their laws should be interpreted as being similarly racist.
Never beating the "now that other schools can legally pay players, the SEC wants out" allegations.
Chicago Sun-Times"They're real," Greg Sankey said Monday of talks with school presidents involving the SEC separating itself from the rest of the NCAA.