Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer Podcast
1) Closing Out The Year With Mergers And Attacks On The Rule Of Law
Ho ho ho...gan Lovells merging. ----- A critical analysis of the best variety of Coca-Cola product gives way to a conversation about law this week. Cadwalader ends its tumultuous year -- involving a...Show More
2) At Least The Robots In The Coming War Against Humans Will Understand War Crimes
If you want 2025 in a nutshell, it doesn't get much better than a blundering Secretary of Defense bragging that the Pentagon bought an expensive, bespoke AI bot and it immediately started calling out ...Show More
3) This Is Why We Have Bar Exams
And the DOJ continues to be a hot mess. ----- Kim Kardashian is trying to enter the legal profession without a law school education. The bar exam is a deeply flawed and largely unnecessary test, but...Show More
4) A Bad Week For Trump's Fake U.S. Attorneys
And a shorter summer associate program. ----- While most of us celebrated Thanksgiving, some of Trump's phony U.S. Attorneys were the real turkeys. First, a conservative leaning panel of the Elevent...Show More
5) Bonus Season Begins In Earnest
Bonuses and botched prosecutions. ----- Bonus season is underway, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a year's worth of effort. The market scale -- unless some firm breaks rank a...Show More
6) Maybe The Legal Industry Has Just Lost All Sense Of Shame
But seriously, what would be a good legal dominatrix name? ------ Biglaw recruiting director out after racist rant goes public. A squabble between lawyers and their former firm presents important le...Show More
7) If The DOJ Fails Another Time, They Win A Free Sandwich
And Kirkland tries a little tenderness. FedSoc does not. ----- The news that Kirkland had to teach its lawyers how to stop being mean to the private equity industry is incredibly funny. We're not sa...Show More
8) A Riot By Any Other Name...
DOJ punishing lawyers, the future of the billable hour, and dark times for public interest work. ----- We talk about the DOJ lawyers suspended by the White House for calling January 6 a riot in a se...Show More
9) Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law
And a Biglaw firm seeks help while an in-house attorney blows up her career. ----- Catching up with the slice of the conservative legal movement who have stared into the moral abyss of the Trump adm...Show More
10) No, Your Honor, I Didn't Call You That, I Was Talking About, Um, Bundt Cake
Also frivolous lawsuits and the insidiousness of dishonest analysis. ----- Appeals court decides that some things are best left unsaid. And among those things are calling your judge the c-word. Just...Show More