AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – A Sneak Peek at the 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings

We hope that you’re ready, because it’s almost the most wonderful time of the year for law schools. That’s right, the 2014 U.S. News law school rankings will be published next week, on March 12. Law school deans are cowering in fear right now, because some of them may be ousted from their positions if […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Best Law Schools for Getting a Biglaw Job (2013)

For the past few years, the National Law Journal has been publishing a list of the best law schools to go to if you want to work in Biglaw after graduation. But through the lens of this annual report, we can see some of the changes that have happened in a profession that’s been in […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The Love Of A Woman Is More Valuable Than A Partnership At Skadden

Ed. note: The following piece was authored by The Legal Tease, of Sweet Hot Justice fame. Check out her other musings from Sweet Hot Justice here. Has your soul winced at all today? The kind of wince that feels like your junk has retreated deep into your abdomen in a way that makes you mostly […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Student Sends Open Letter To Classmates Explaining, In Detail, Why He Hates Them

During her last week here at Above the Law, Kashmir Hill and I went out to lunch. In her usual, insightful, Kash way, she said to me, “When you first started here, I thought your hatred for law school and lawyers was just your schtick. Now I see that it’s not. You really don’t like […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Office Of Law School LGBT Group Vandalized With Hateful Graffiti Over MLK Day Weekend

Yesterday, in addition to being Inauguration Day, was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We suggested that people use the holiday to engage in public service. Unfortunately, not everyone got the memo. At one leading law school, someone used the three-day weekend to vandalize the office of an LGBT student group. We’ll show you a photo […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The Biglaw Flowchart That Tells You When You Can Leave The Office

We’ve all been there. It’s Friday. It’s 5:30 p.m. The rest of the working world is already well into their weekend, their three-day weekend. But you’re not sure if you can leave. You work in Biglaw, and you don’t know if it’s okay to simply get up from your desk and rejoin the rest of […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

Why do we love to write about celebrity author and lawyer Elizabeth Wurtzel? Because people love to read about her. Even a passing mention of La Wurtzel garners thousands of pageviews, and her name routinely shows up in the top search terms that bring readers to Above the Law. We aren’t alone in devoting significant […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – New Punctuality Rules Give Law Firm A Totalitarian Feel

One of the nice things about being a Biglaw lawyer is that you’ve got some autonomy over your schedule. You know how much work you have to do, and you know when it’s due, and within those borders you can manage your own time. If you want to come in a little bit later and […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Law Student ‘Whacked’ In Midtown Manhattan

You know what they say, you never see it coming. There is a bizarre story developing on the streets of New York. A law student walked out of a hotel in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan and was murdered by a silent assassin who then, coldly, got into a getaway car that politely stopped at […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Millennials: This Is Why You Fail

I generally try to defend Millennials in these pages. They might seem like texting-obsessed kids, but we need to cut them some slack. Because they had the American economypulled out from under them just as they tried to start their adult lives. You just wait, when these guys are 40, they’ll be telling their kids […]