Joe Patrice

New York

Host at Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer

"One of the great journalists of our time... Joe Patrice at Above the Law" -- Judge William Pryor. Trump sought a mistrial over one of my articles.

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Articles

Law Day Demonstrations Highlight Lawyers' Growing Fears About Rule Of Law

1 week ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Yesterday, Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation in commemoration of Law Day. Though, in ominous fashion, Trump’s statement leaned into the event as “Loyalty Day,” invoking the event’s 1950s Red Scare origins even though the actual holiday set forth in P.L. 87-20 is “Law Day.” “NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J.
Microsoft Boots Trump Capitulator Simpson Thacher, Awards Business To Jenner & Block

1 week ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Well, well, well. When Biglaw firms started swearing fealty to the Trump administration, the justifications their defenders offered fell into two major buckets. First, that the millions of dollars in pro bono payola they put on the table would be feel good charity work for the benefit of, to quote them at the time, “a wide range of underserved populations.” Those of us who were not born yesterday recognized this as very stupid, and were quickly rewarded for our basic common sense.
Law Firms Keep Buying Amazing Tech... Lawyers Keep Not Using It

1 week ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice
Law Firms Keep Buying Amazing Tech… Lawyers Keep Not Using It

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Joe Patrice

9 hours agoForget ChatGPT -— here's the 5 best AI tools you've probably never heard ofOpenAI has become so dominant that ChatGPT is now a synonym for everyday AI chatbots. Even if you can name some of the competition, I suspect most …NowThe Computational Limit of Life May Be So Much Higher Than We Thought, Scientists SayAnd it’s all thanks to quantum mechanics.
You're Probably Not Taking Cybersecurity Seriously Enough

2 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Law firms are juicy targets. Secrets, money, privileged communications, and tech clueless lawyers minding the gate. Passwords like “password123” aren’t cutting it. It’s a cybercriminal buffet. Artificial intelligence continues to elicit all the hype in legal tech, but cybersecurity should be the story of 2025. The United States has decided to actively antagonize global cyber threats and slash spending on protection.
So, We've Entered The 'FBI Arresting Judges' Stage Of Dystopia

2 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Earlier this morning, FBI Director and Big Lie children’s book author Kash Patel announced that the FBI had arrested a Wisconsin judge. Befitting a serious law enforcement operation, Patel posted it on social media in a post he’s already deleted.
Judge Wilkinson Stares Into The Abyss After Trump Deportation Opinion

2 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Can someone check in on Judge Wilkinson? Because the conservative legal movement luminary appears to be having a moment. Wrapping up a routine insurance opinion by musing, “What after all does it matter?” the Fourth Circuit veteran took Owners Ins. Co. v. Walsh on a three-paragraph journey into a dorm-room philosophy session gone rogue.
Judge Wilken On NCAA Settlement - Not So Fast, My Friend

2 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

College sports hasn’t seen a fumble on the big stage this embarrassing since J.D. Vance held the national championship trophy. After decades of pablum about the “value of an education” and “going pro in something other than sports,” the schools actually made it to the negotiating table to work out a solution acknowledging that they can’t just siphon wealth from their students. A proposed settlement — called the House Settlement after the House v.
California Bar Reveals It Used AI For Exam Questions, Because Of Course It Did

3 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Unaware that you’re supposed to rip the band-aid off all at once, the embattled officials behind the California Bar Exam decided they hadn’t had enough of the non-stop cavalcade of disastrous headlines about February’s exam, so they just casually threw out there that they used AI to come up with some of the questions. Everyone’s going to be chill about this, right? I mean, “bar exams” and “artificial intelligence” are two topics that famously elicit only only rational, measured reactions.
Biglaw Brings In Big Bucks

3 weeks ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

We’ve got key financial data from the top law firms and the takeaway is that it’s good to be a big firm. The Am Law 100 this year revealed that more and more firms have joined the super rich and things look bright for Biglaw. Unless someone triggers a global depression or something. We also discuss what it means to be “bipartisan” in an environment where the intellectual stars of the conservative legal movement are ALSO lining up to call out the Trump administration as a threat to the rule of law.