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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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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...
Bold Strategy Biglaw, Let's See If It Pays Off
What if we just act like nothing happened?
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Biglaw firms who gave in to Trump suffered a scathing 60 Minutes piece and...
Biglaw Firms Fighting Trump Keep Winning, Capitulators Keep Losing
It was a bad week to compromise your values.
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Perkins Coie secured a permanent injunction against the Trump administrat...
Even Judges Aren't Safe In Trump's America
The arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan is straight outta dystopian fiction. But at least retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer still has fa...
Biglaw Brings In Big Bucks
And the world continues to melt.
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We've got key financial data from the top law firms and the takeaway is that it's good to be a big...
Law School Ranking Chaos And Biglaw Trump Deals Turn Sour
US News and World Report released its most recent law school rankings with a side of chaos, but the big takeaway is the scrambling and erosion of the...
Biglaw Surrender Fallout Continues
And now we have a tracker for that!
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After a few weeks of watching some law firms stand up to facially illegal demands from the Trump...
Fight Or Flight... The Biglaw Conundrum
A great divide is developing.
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Following the Paul Weiss surrender we discussed last week, Skadden preemptively followed suit agreeing...
Paul Weiss Waves The White Flag
Courage seems to be in short supply in Biglaw.
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Paul Weiss folded immediately in the face of Trump's threat, offering the president p...
Biglaw Struggling To Deal With Trump Chaos
There's no escaping the administration's influence on the legal landscape.
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The Trump administration continues its revenge tour again...
John Roberts Realizes He Made A Huge Mistake
ACB isn't having it.
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Remember when Arrested Development made this a gag? John Roberts is living it out in real time as the president...
Diddy Lawyer Decides He Gotta Move On
And the new USNWR rankings are dealing with some crazy data.
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We're not saying Diddy is an unsavory client, but we are saying Osama b...
Who Needs Caselaw Anyway?
The new federal deficit is the government's research deficit.
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Elon Musk's aimless cost-cutting escapades turn to the SEC where DOGE...
Someone Needs To Come Get These Junior Associates
'Nah, you do that' is not a response that keeps lawyers employed.
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Imagine the audacity it takes for a rookie lawyer to refuse to do...
Insurer Spending On Lawyers Rather Than, You Know, Healthcare
And Biglaw begins adjusting to Trump era.
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If United Healthcare considered spending more on a cancer patient and less on lawyers to...
400th Episode Spectacular
Getting the band back together.
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A jumbo sized episode this week as Thinking Like A Lawyer celebrates its 400th episode with a look b...
First Thing We Do, Let's Fire All The Lawyers
Government lawyer purge creates chaos
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Trump administration slashes jobs for young lawyers months before they officially start sparki...
Tom Goldstein Should've Stuck With High Stakes Go Fish
You've got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em.
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Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSblog, is on...
Back To The Office Blues
Attorneys yearn for the commute.
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Sullivan & Cromwell are bringing attorneys back to the office five days a week. The stated reason i...
Judges Decide Clarence Thomas Was Just Confused When He Didn't Report All That Money
Statutes are hard.
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Apparently, Clarence Thomas just didn't understand how to read the nearly 50-year-old statute requiring him to re...
Ho, Ho, Ho-Cast
A very jolly podcast.
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It's a very special holiday episode of Thinking Like A Lawyer with three straight "Ho" stories. First, Hogan L...