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Above The Law’s 2017 Law Firm Rankings

White-shoe? Prestige? Why do we rank law firms like we’re sitting in a country club during the Eisenhower Administration? The ATL Power 100 Firms are the ones that move the market. Today. These are the firms that set the pace on lawyer pay and compete for the wealthiest clients. These are the market leaders. In […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – A Biglaw Partner’s Big Twitter Meltdown

Go f@ck yourself and die. — Steven M. Regan, a partner at Reed Smith, telling the folks at SCOTUSblog how he really feels, via Twitter. (What on earth could have inspired Regan to act this way? Keep reading to find out.) Read more on AbovetheLaw.

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – 10 Reasons To Leave Biglaw

Ed. note: This post is sponsored by NexFirm. These days, getting a Biglaw job is the golden ticket you need in order to make law school pay off. Thousands of students are paying grossly inflated tuition rates, and a Biglaw salary is one of the only ways those students can reasonably pay back their massive […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Deciding To Go To Law School In One Epic Flowchart

Have you been meaning to read Don’t Go To Law School (Unless) by Professor Paul Campos (affiliate link), but prefer consuming your information via infographic? Well, you’re in luck. Connecticut attorney Samuel Browning, with permission from Campos, has created an epic flowchart taking you through the argument of the book from reasons not to go […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Don’t Mock A Legal Argument If You’re Completely Wrong

There’s no better way to introduce this story than by reprinting the opening paragraph of the Sixth Circuit opinion by Judge Raymond Kethledge (citation omitted): There are good reasons not to call an opponent’s argument “ridiculous,” which is what State Farm calls Barbara Bennett’s principal argument here. The reasons include civility; the near-certainty that overstatement […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Law Student Prepares Appellate Brief After His Fantasy Football Trade Gets Vetoed

On Wednesday, the Cleveland Browns traded running back Trent Richardson to the Indianapolis Colts for a 2014 first-round pick. This move, which amounts to Cleveland announcing to the world, “we took a two-week stab at 2013 and decided it’s not for us,” has the side effect of relegating Colts running back Ahmad Bradshaw to second-string […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Biglaw Blind Item: This Firm’s Summer Associates Are ‘Idiots’

There’s just something about riding on crowded Amtrak trains that causes Biglaw attorneys to lose all of their inhibitions. From fondling one another to making $300,000 partnership offers to casually discussing future layoffs, their indiscretion knows no bounds. Perhaps they choose to throw caution to the wind because they think no one cares about the […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – This May Be An Even Greater Response To A Cease And Desist Letter

Back in June, we got a chance to see an absolutely great response to a cease and desist letter. The author of that response letter, Stephen B. Kaplitt, is an Above the Law folk hero for kicking off his response to an unnecessarily threatening C&D with “obviously [this] was sent in jest, and the world […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Popular Dating Site Compiles 15 Stupid Reasons To Date A Lawyer

If you’re stuck sitting in your office until all hours of the night wondering (a) how you’ll ever meet someone and (b) how you’ll convince them to take a chance on someone who routinely works until 4 a.m. turning documents while a team of lawyers argue over comma placement, well, you’re in luck! A major […]