Morning Docket: 09.27.11
* How lucky for us that the Senate decided to avoid a government shutdown, but the third time is not the charm when it comes to the taxpayers’ money. [New York Times] * Did DSK get a blowie in his...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.06.11
* Close, but no cigar? The ABA has updated the way that it will collect graduate employment and salary data from law schools, but the new method could still use a few tweaks. [National Law Journal] *...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 12.14.11
* Now that Chicago has bared it all, isn’t it time for other law schools to fall in line? Show us the stats for the class of 2010 already. [Law School Transparency] * And this is why your mother told...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
A Saudi Arabian lawyer explains the revolutionary effect of Twitter within his country. Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Faisal Abdullah, Free Speech,...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 03.20.13
* Saudi Arabia may soon end beheadings because they’re running out of swordsmen. Poor Ned Stark… if he’d just held out a little longer. [Lowering the Bar] * Professor Richard Epstein held an AMA (“Ask...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.07.13
* With all the focus on law schools, medical schools are quietly dropping the last year of schooling. If they can cut out a year of learning how to keep people alive, we can drop a year of learning...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 01.06.14
* “Either access to abortion will be dramatically restricted in the coming year or perhaps the pushback will begin.” We’re moving back in history. Here’s hoping pro-choice advocacy will be born anew in...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 09.27.11
* How lucky for us that the Senate decided to avoid a government shutdown, but the third time is not the charm when it comes to the taxpayers’ money. [New York Times] * Did DSK get a blowie in his...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.06.11
* Close, but no cigar? The ABA has updated the way that it will collect graduate employment and salary data from law schools, but the new method could still use a few tweaks. [National Law Journal] *...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 12.14.11
* Now that Chicago has bared it all, isn’t it time for other law schools to fall in line? Show us the stats for the class of 2010 already. [Law School Transparency] * And this is why your mother told...
View ArticleQuote of the Day: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
A Saudi Arabian lawyer explains the revolutionary effect of Twitter within his country.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 03.20.13
* Saudi Arabia may soon end beheadings because they’re running out of swordsmen. Poor Ned Stark… if he’d just held out a little longer. [Lowering the Bar] * Professor Richard Epstein held an AMA (“Ask...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 10.07.13
* With all the focus on law schools, medical schools are quietly dropping the last year of schooling. If they can cut out a year of learning how to keep people alive, we can drop a year of learning...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 01.06.14
* “Either access to abortion will be dramatically restricted in the coming year or perhaps the pushback will begin.” We’re moving back in history. Here’s hoping pro-choice advocacy will be born anew in...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Makes For Some Mighty Strange Cases
Some of the weirdest and most problematic cases of sexual harassment you'll ever see.
View ArticleWeWork Probably Won’t Be Taking Saudi Money When It Goes Public Because It’s...
Adam Neumann wants you to know that he understands how this looks...and will maybe stop now that you're watching.
View ArticleSaudi Arabia’s Oil Wealth, Your Soul, For Sale In Saudi Aramco’s Largest Ever...
Sometimes you need to require some real, dramatic improvement, a demonstrated willingness to change, before you volunteer to help someone stop being a train wreck.
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.23.19
* Right now, one out of every four circuit judges in the United States is a Trump appointee. [Washington Post] * Some scholars are arguing President Trump cannot be considered impeached until articles...
View ArticleJustice For Jamal Khashoggi
Imposing sanctions should be the minimum response because economic penalties alone will not deter MBS from pursuing further crimes.
View ArticleClosing The IP Gulf
There is no doubt that opportunity abounds on the IP front for cash-rich Gulf State investors.
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