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Jonathan Turley Botching Famous Quote Just Tip Of Latest Intellectual Laziness
Wherever there’s a conservative temper tantrum, Jonathan Turley will be there. Turley’s late-stage career is basically a wrestling gimmick, casting himself to right-wing media as a “Democrat” law professor making a heel turn. The George...
Investing In A Kakistocracy
I’m a conservative investor. All my spare cash goes into low-cost index funds, and my wealth increases as the economy expands. My strategy has served me reasonably well in recent decades. Last week, for the first time ever in my life, I made an...
Build, Buy, Integrate, Or Wait: The AI Decision Legal Leaders Need To Own
At a recent discussion, someone offered a wonderfully practical way to think about building software: If you want deep-dish pizza, why would you buy the restaurant? I immediately thought about enterprise technology meetings. Someone wants a faster way to review...
Legal Ethics Roundup: Can AI Be Ethical?, DOJ Lawyers Under Scrutiny, Weil Gotshal Implodes, ‘Rogue Activist Judges,’ Reading Recommendations, Jobs & More
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Hello First Monday! What is a “First Monday” edition? Every Monday here at the LER you receive a summary of the top ten legal...
This Merger Of Two Biglaw Firms Lasted Less Than Two Years
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In 2006, a conservative, old-line San Francisco firm merged with a scrappy, tech-focused New York firm to create a bicoastal Am Law 100 player with a mouthful of a name (five surnames long). The...
Court will hear arguments in January on six-person juries, religious zoning dispute
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Jan. 13 in a Florida man’s challenge to the state’s use of six-person juries; one week later, it will hear a religious zoning dispute between a Catholic church in northern Kentucky and a couple who live across the street...
Protesters block RAF Lakenheath entrance over Iran war
The demonstrators, part of the Lakenheath Alliance for Peace, said they were protesting the Iran war, Israel’s war in Gaza and what they described as the possible return of U.S. nuclear weapons to the base in eastern England.
US starts at ‘basically zero’ in building cheap military drones
The Pentagon is buying drones by the thousands even as Chinese and Russian manufacturers crank them out by the millions.
258 military veterans are running in the midterms
The number of military veterans seeking congressional office is up by 21% from 2024, when there were 213 veterans on the ballot.