Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
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Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer
Thinking Like A Lawyer is a podcast featuring Above the Law's Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino, and Chris Williams. Each episode, the hosts will take a topic experienced and enjoyed by regular people, and shine it through the prism of a legal framework. This will either reveal an awesome rainbow of thoug...
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Supreme Court Airs Dirty Laundry
Things get testy down at the courthouse.
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The Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump's effort to use IEEPA to impose ar...
AI Takes The Blame, Epstein Takes The Careers
And law students finally get some good news.
With a Biglaw firm officially blaming staff layoffs on AI, what is it going to look like if...
Epstein Fallout Rocks Legal As Admin Tries To Deflect From ICE
This is likely only the beginning of the reckoning.
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As predicted on last week's episode, Brad Karp left the top post a...
Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability
Between Epstein files and ethical breaches, a reckoning seems so close yet so far.
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A flurry of stories hit the legal w...
Trump's Cook Case Looks Cooked
After taking a hacksaw to nearly a century's worth of congressionally approved independent agencies, the Supreme Court appeared to hit a wall during o...
Alienating Our Affections
Supreme Court hacking and the end of a Biglaw era.
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The Biglaw world continues to watch single-tier partnerships slip...
Minnesota Becoming A Constitutional Law Issue-Spotter
And Judge Ho's auditioning for MAGA favor takes a disgusting turn.
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With polls showing more Americans now favor abolis...
2026 Prediction Time!
Welcome to another dumpster fire of a year.
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We begin the year by peering into our crystal balls and issuing some predi...
A Look Back At The 2025 Dumpster Fire
Three trends dominated this year's coverage.
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We've made it to the end of the year! And what do we have to show for it...
Closing Out The Year With Mergers And Attacks On The Rule Of Law
Ho ho ho...gan Lovells merging.
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A critical analysis of the best variety of Coca-Cola product gives way to a conversati...
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, besp...
This Is Why We Have Bar Exams
And the DOJ continues to be a hot mess.
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Kim Kardashian is trying to enter the legal profession without a law school ed...
A Bad Week For Trump's Fake U.S. Attorneys
And a shorter summer associate program.
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While most of us celebrated Thanksgiving, some of Trump's phony U.S. Attorneys...
Bonus Season Begins In Earnest
Bonuses and botched prosecutions.
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Bonus season is underway, and Biglaw firms are lining up to reward associates for a...
Maybe The Legal Industry Has Just Lost All Sense Of Shame
But seriously, what would be a good legal dominatrix name?
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Biglaw recruiting director out after racist rant goes publ...
If The DOJ Fails Another Time, They Win A Free Sandwich
And Kirkland tries a little tenderness. FedSoc does not.
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The news that Kirkland had to teach its lawyers how to stop b...
A Riot By Any Other Name...
DOJ punishing lawyers, the future of the billable hour, and dark times for public interest work.
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We talk about the DOJ...
Dispatches From The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law
And a Biglaw firm seeks help while an in-house attorney blows up her career.
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Catching up with the slice of the conserv...
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.
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Appeals court decides that some things are best l...
On Campus Hiring Is Broken, And This Isn't Helping
Just in time for the AI slop to take over.
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Some law firms are handing out recruiting entertainment budgets to law stud...
Is This The Beginning Of The End For The Bar Exam?
One can only hope.
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For a long time, the bar exam seemed like the nasty habit that the legal profession just couldn't q...
All The Cool Kids Are Passing The Bar, All The Cooley Kids... Not As Much
Biglaw capitulators face new challenge and James Comey gets indicted.
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Perennially embattled Cooley Law School once aga...
Nothin' Says Lovin' Like A Benchslap
Law firm fires lawyer over Kirk comments and law school announces new scholarships.
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Perkins Coie cut ties with an atto...
A Tale Of Two Supreme Court Book Tours
Compare and contrast as ACB and Sotomayor ride (media) circuit.
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Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor are both hitting...
The Fundamental Dishonesty Of The Supreme Court
Law school is more expensive than it used to be... but barely more expensive!
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Federal judges have had to deal with mor...
DOJ Has Egg On Its Face
The Department of Justice is having a rough time getting those trumped up charges (pun intended) from the fed's takeover of D.C. to stick. Plus lawyer...
2400 Reasons To Brush Up That Resume
We know where some of those pro bono payola hours are going.
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Be prepared to be on the clock a lot longer at King & Spa...
The Sandwich Is Mightier Than The Sword
Law firms get some worrying numbers from last quarter.
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The new D.C. folk hero who threw a sandwich at Trump's surge pu...
Missing: Biglaw's Summer Bonus Matches
Milbank delighted with special summer bonuses, ranging from $6-25 thousand, for associates. And that's great for them! But where are all the matches?...
The Bar Exam Death Drive Becomes Dangerously Literal
And Coldplay and pierogis.
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A woman went into cardiac arrest during the New York bar exam. Thankfully, the administrato...
Lawyers Getting Really High On AI Hallucinations
Get it together, people!
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It was a very bad week for lawyers and hallucinations. A federal judge had to withdraw an opi...
Who Knew Biting Other Lawyers Was Frowned Upon?
Lots to chew on this week.
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Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm. Now that soun...
The Hallucinations Are Winning
Law firm mergers and John Roberts brags for the crowd.
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Has the era of the mid-sized firm come to an end? Probably not,...
Supreme Court A Hot Mess
The Term ended with a whole lot of nonsense.
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Taking a sledgehammer where a chisel -- or better yet nothing -- would do...
You Catch More Judges With 'Honey' Than With Vinegar
And the Supreme Court has a wild one.
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Except those judges aren't going to like it when you catch them. Like the poor l...
The Jerkstore Called, They're Not Running Out Of Lawyers
Also, the role of bar associations in 2025.
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According to a new survey, lawyers think their law firms are really tolera...
So Long And Thanks For All The Bonuses
Caving law firms experience exodus.
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Paul Weiss fancied itself clever when it offered Trump pro bono payola in exchange...
Sex Asteroids, Sleazebags, And Meme Police
Quite the combination of words.
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Lawsuit against former Texas SG alleges bizarre cosmic sex fetish. The administration...
Supreme Court Just Making It Up As It Goes Along
From the administrative state to voting rights, they're just sort of winging it trying to reverse engineer results.
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A...
Are Those Seashells In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Threatening An Assassination?
Seashellgate meets Surrendergate.
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Since we're cursed to act as keepers of the flame to remind the legal community that...