The midsize U.S. law firm law market often gets overlooked in the press and to some extent by vendors. Part …

Trump Judge Gives Nazi-Sympathizing Law Student High Marks For Rehashing Klan Legal Theory Calling For Minority Disenfranchisement And Murdering Immigrants
The core of modern conservative ideology isn’t that hard to understand. It has three axioms: 1) White is Right.2) Violence …

Legal Ethics Roundup: CA Upholds Eastman Disbarment; Toxic Work Culture For Federal Clerks; ABA Sues Trump; Honoring Juneteenth & More
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal …

Judge Suggests Briefs With Hallucinated Citations Could Land Lawyers In Prison For Life
Whenever we catch lawyers in the U.S. turning in court filings filled with fake cases that ChatGPT spit out, they …

Jeffery Kruse On What Legal Teams Get Wrong About Contracts And How To Fix It
(Image via Getty) In-house lawyers spend a lot of time talking about contract efficiency. We run RFPs for CLM tools, …

Biglaw Firm Fighting Trump Announces Staff Layoffs
Perkins Coie was one of the very first firms that Donald Trump issued a retaliatory executive order against, punishing its …

Vault’s Top Law Firms By Practice Area And Region (2026)
Vault recently released its closely watched rankings of the nation’s 100 most prestigious law firms. It was there that we learned …

Ba- Ba- Ba-, Ba- Bomb Iran
Iran presents a real dilemma. I’m writing this on Saturday, and the United States is not (yet) bombing Iran. For …
Operation Midnight Hammer: How The US Conducted Surprise Strikes On Iran
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Morning Docket: 06.23.25
* Kilmar Abrego Garcia released pending trial. [Axios] * In addition to massively expanding the deficit, Congress is also planning …