Above the Law

Someone Is Keeping Up With Milbank — See Also

Keeping That Raise On Ice: Ice Miller increases associate pay in New York, but not until 2027.

Blame It On The AI: Company tried to pin labor law violation on ChatGPT.

The Tech Isn’t The Key: Legal AI needs to build a winning user experience if it’s going to capture Biglaw.

Everyone In MAGA Land Has Notes For Jeanine Pirro This Week: ‘Never mention her friggin’ name to me,’ fumed the man demanding she fire a prosecutor.

Teaching Judgment In The Age Of AI: Building Legal Professionals Who Rely On AI Responsibly

Comfort and adoption with AI are rising faster than judgment maturity.

Your Cyber Insurance May Not Be Ready For Autonomous AI

The concern isn't simply that AI creates new cyber threats. It's that organizations may unknowingly introduce risks that fall outside the assumptions underlying their insurance policies.

Law Firms Don’t Have One AI Visibility Problem. They Have Three.

AI visibility is typically seen as a content problem. But that only helps with a third of the hurdles law firms face in how legal service buyers are using AI search.

3 Takeaways From The Lex Machina 2026 Patent Report

Modern patent litigation remains a vibrant and challenging pursuit for both plaintiffs and defendants.

Exclusive: Coming Out Of Stealth, Paravo Launches What It Calls The First AI ‘Revenue Engine’ For Law Firms

It is a platform that combines lead generation, AI-powered intake and follow-up, and automated client reactivation, all in a single product aimed at flat-fee practices.

Bipartisan Lawmakers Are Fighting HHS’ 340B Rebate Push

A bipartisan group of six senators introduced a bill to reform the 340B drug program, locking in hospitals' use of contract pharmacies and adding new transparency and compliance rules. The legislation would also kill HHS' contested rebate pilot within a year and replace it with a national data clearinghouse to catch duplicate discounts.

Morning Docket: 08.11.26

* Biglaw firms hit with data breaches. [Law360]

* Office of Legal Counsel takes position that executive privilege extends to unofficial, unconfirmed people the president talks to. [Alternet]

* Court appearance coming up for Luigi. [Reuters]

* FOIA requests become “Kafkaesque” mess with this administration. [ProPublica]

* New White House Counsel is exactly what you’d expect. [Bloomberg Law News]

* DOJ sues the whole Second Circuit over offering in-state resident tuition to non-citizens who reside in state. [VTDigger]

* The Fifth Circuit remains obsessed with punishing DeRay Mckesson for constitutionally protected speech. [Balls and Strikes]

* Class action alleging that early-decision amounts to illegal price-fixing moves forward. [Law360]

* Law school dean writes parody of children’s classic. [ABA Journal]

Biglaw Flirts With Private Equity, Because Ruining Everything Else Wasn’t Enough — See Also

Biglaw Wants Private Equity’s Money — Ask Your Vet How That Turned Out: The same ‘management services’ trick that swallowed your dog’s clinic is now knocking on Paul Weiss’s door.

That’s Some Catch, That Catch-22: The administration may talk like the SPLC case is a vindictive prosecution, but this Trump judge says there’s no way to know for sure without discovery. Also, she will not allow discovery.

Ballroom Blitzed: D.C. Circuit judges block the Trump bunker ballroom.

The Senate Confirmed Todd Blanche As Attorney General In The Dead Of Night: Collins and Murkowski got their moderate bona fides. Cassidy got the blame and Blanche got the job.

Your LSAT Score May Be High, But Is It THIS High? Check out the law schools with the highest LSAT scores.

Nine Was Never Sacred

Congress just stopped changing it.

A Practical Framework For Optimizing Your Firm’s Content For AI Answer Engines

If your bios, practice pages, and thought leadership aren't structured for AI to read, cite, and recommend, you're invisible at the moment of consideration.

Samuel Alito Sees ‘Vultures’ Circling His Supreme Court Seat But Has No Plans To Retire

After 20 terms on the bench, he’s not ready to leave.

Trump Judge Rules SPLC Can’t Prove Vindictive Prosecution Without Evidence, Which She Also Won’t Let Them See

Judge Emily Marks rejected the DOJ's most absurd argument, then built a standard that requires you to have been born yesterday.

The Law Schools With The Highest LSAT Scores (2026)

Did your law school make the list?

The Senate Confirmed Todd Blanche At 4 am. Nothing Good Happens After Midnight.

50-49. Trump's former personal criminal defense attorney will now lead the nation's top law enforcement agency.