Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

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• The Trump Administration Struggled With The Bar Exam And Its Inbox

  October 21, 2026 · 29 min

  It was a rough week for the Trump administration’s relationship with credentials… and email. New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia spent years on cable news billed as a “lawyer,” but there was no record of her being licensed…

• Iron Curtain Descends On Biglaw Financials

  October 14, 2026 · 36 min

  Supreme Court auditions are just down the hall and to the extreme right. ----- That headline is a tad overdramatic, but Kirkland & Ellis did announce that it would no longer help journalists reporting on its financial strength. For…

• Bird Watching: Hawks vs. Hawkeyes

  October 7, 2026 · 33 min

  And the inevitable -- if stupid -- return of Richard Nixon ----- In a display that could only be described as cartoonish, Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights, before he tripped over himself and fell into a heap…

• All The Court's A Stage And Trump Judges Merely Players

  September 30, 2026 · 29 min

  And the fashion police have too much time on their hands. ----- The Supreme Court finally put down the dead horse that the Eighth Circuit kept beating, ruling for the third time that Missouri can't impose an illegal gerrymander in time…

• Weil Get You And... Then Maybe You'll Go To Cravath

  September 23, 2026 · 35 min

  And how AI and college sports are basically running the same terrible playbook. ----- More fallout from the big Weil departures. Joe and Kathryn talk about balancing business and why "values" is not necessarily the corporate speak…

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