What did Scott Turow's time as a prosecutor teach him? The post A Prosecutor’s Perspective appeared first on Above the Law .
Is the Constitution to blame for the current political dysfunction? The post We The People… Can Do Better? appeared first on Above the Law .
https://abovethelaw.com/2013/12/we-the-people-can-do-better/
How many sixth-year associates can afford $2 million apartments? The post Lawyerly Lairs: Sixth-Year Associate Snags Seven-Figure Pad appeared first on Above the Law .
https://abovethelaw.com/2013/08/lawyerly-lairs-sixth-year-associate-snags-seven-figure-pad/
What should be done - if anything - about the influence of money in politics? Some thoughts from Larry Lessig, Cleta Mitchell, Ted Olson, and Seth Waxman. The post Politics and Money: Imperfect...
https://abovethelaw.com/2012/10/politics-and-money-imperfect-together/
It’s like Formula One. You want to see the car crash. We like to go to Rockefeller Center to watch the ice-skaters fall. — Carol Barbeiro, a lawyer, on why she went to see Spider-Man: Turn Of...
https://abovethelaw.com/2011/01/quote-of-the-day-is-seeing-broadway-shows-the-new-ambulance-chasing/
The current New Yorker caption contest is legally-themed and sexually explicit, so it begs for our attention. The Nine get naughty! We couldn’t get permission to post it here, so you’ll have ...
https://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/atlnew-yorker-caption-contest-in-bed-with-scotus/
The most recent New Yorker features a profile of the newest resident of the High Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Given the tone of the piece, you might think One First Street is turning into Melr...
https://abovethelaw.com/2010/01/scotus-justice-sonia-sotomayor-has-star-power/
The current New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jeffrey Toobin on President Obama’s judicial picks. Toobin took part in a live chat about the piece at NewYorker.com right now earlier today i...
We know many lawyers who agonize over the New Yorker magazine’s weekly caption contest, desperately hoping to come up with a gnomic, witty caption worthy of selection. But we know of only one l...
https://abovethelaw.com/2009/06/lawyer-of-the-day-larry-wood/
Everyone’s a-twitter about Jeffrey Toobin’s profile of Chief Justice John Roberts in this week’s New Yorker. And with good reason. We’re not sure whether the title of the profile, “No M...
https://abovethelaw.com/2009/05/chief-justice-john-roberts-the-elephant-in-the-scotus-courtroom/