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Above The Law@abovethelaw.com · 10h ago

Watch Him As He Goes — See Generally https://abovethelaw.com/2026/10/watch-him-as-he-goes-see-generally/

Watch Him As He Goes — See Generally

Foo Fighting: Dave Grohl dedicated "My Hero" to "my new friend Jack" at the Power to the People festival while wearing an Iowa Hawkeyes shirt. Meanwhile, Eric Schmitt is still trying to figure out how he got so humiliated. Trump Fails Again: South African jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize... Donald Trump did not take it well. Prompt Payment: Ropes & Gray expanded its AI program so that associates can count up to 100 hours of AI testing and training toward their billable targets. Jury-Rigged: Justice Sotomayor warned that arresting a tardy prospective juror in front of the whole jury pool can have a "profoundly negative impact" on the people about to decide a man's fate. Sam Spade: Justice Alito told Fox News Sunday that he has a pretty good idea who leaked the Dobbs draft. So do we buddy... and we all know exactly why you know. Callback Pending: Judge James Ho used a Fifth Circuit concurrence to complain that accusing judges of auditioning for higher office is an unanswerable "audition trap." Witness Protection: Responding to a FOIA suit, the Justice Department argued the EEOC can't release records from the probe of Biglaw diversity programs that they already publicly accused. Hush Money: Fresh off becoming the first law firm to clear $10 billion in revenue, Kirkland & Ellis announced it will stop disclosing its financials because rankings supposedly offer clients little "meaningful value."

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Above The Law@abovethelaw.com · 17h ago

Law firm White & Case listed an M&A Associate job posting with a salary range between $270,000 and $385,000! Joe and Kathryn discuss how this job posting reflects a new compensation scale across big law firms—and why the posting suddenly vanished. For the full episode: https://ow.ly/Pnla50ZWuKQ

Above The Law@abovethelaw.com · 4d ago

Morning Docket: 10.09.26 https://abovethelaw.com/2026/10/morning-docket-10-09-26/

Morning Docket: 10.09.26

* DOJ seeking to indict Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying to the January 6 Committee about the insurrection. Grand jury testimony is supposed to be secret, but it's the Trump administration so spectacle outweighs. [NBC News] * OpenAI and Anthropic argue that open weight models are dangerous, implying that their products that are running around hacking people are not dangerous. Expect to hear this a lot in the context of "please ban all the more cost-effective options and give us a monopoly" over the coming months. [Bloomberg Law News] * Family separation is back, but this time it's a byproduct of vague detention guidance to make it more difficult to challenge. [Slate] * NCBE runs pilot bar exam to test out remote proctoring and "AI-assisted" questions -- you know, the things they claimed were existential threats to the very integrity of the process when California tried to step outside the monopoly. [ABA Journal] * Supreme Court stays case about FCC political advertising rate rule on cusp of election. [Election Law Blog] * NFL and multiple states ask Supreme Court if states can regulate gambling, which traditionally is an unquestioned state power, but now has to be run by our unelected Star Chamber for... reasons. [ESPN] * Arizona court system hacked, exposing 1.3 million people's information. [ABA Journal] * NYC suit against oil companies flagged false claims about cleaner gasoline in an effort to dupe consumers, but court tossed it claiming that the only people who care enough about the environment to let it impact their gas choice would have known the claims were bogus anyway. [Courthouse News Service]

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Above The Law@abovethelaw.com · 5d ago

Legal operating systems are here: 4 questions to ask vendors. Integration is now central to legal tech evaluations. Here’s how it works across three layers, and the questions in-house teams should ask vendors at each. [Sponsored by LawVu] https://ow.ly/tzgh50ZW32x

Legal Operating Systems Are Here: 4 Questions To Ask Vendors - Above the Law

Integration is now central to legal tech evaluations. Here’s how it works across three layers, and the questions in-house teams should ask vendors at each.

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Above The Law@abovethelaw.com · 5d ago

Morning Docket: 10.08.26 https://abovethelaw.com/2026/10/morning-docket-10-08-26/

Morning Docket: 10.08.26

* First Circuit hears the challenge to RFK Jr's decision to replace the nation's vaccine authority with a bunch of conspiracy loons. [Reuters] * L.A. judge accused of inappropriate sexual and racial comments struggled in disciplinary hearing. [Bloomberg Law News] * DOJ investigating Wells Fargo for helping Black people get home loans. [WSJ] * Court strips federal agent of qualified immunity in case where FBI held mother at gunpoint in front of her child... because they had the wrong house. [Courthouse News Service] * Government that ran CIA black sites around the world expected to bring criminal torture charges against Maduro. [CNN] * Supreme Court's assault on long-settled legal precedent has started to come back to haunt them. [Slate] * Texas considers allowing AI to generate deposition transcripts. [ABA Journal] * Christa Pike is reportedly walking after failed execution attempts. [BBC]

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