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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California Bar Reveals It Used AI For Exam Questions, Because Of Course It Did

1 day 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

1 day 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.
Biglaw Captured Almost Half Of All Legal Spend Last Year

1 day ago | dealbreaker.com | Joe Patrice

While everyone was busy doomscrolling… everything, big law firms quietly tightened their grip on the legal market. Again. If you were wondering how almost half the Am Law 100 now qualify as “super rich”, look no further than the newly dropped 2025 CounselLink Trends Report. The annual deep dive into client spending reveals that law firms with 750+ lawyers account for 49.3 percent of all legal spend. That’s a healthy amount since the report clocked $67 billion in total legal spend last year.
Law Students Signing Pledge To Refuse Offers From Collaborating Biglaw Firms

1 day ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

As more Biglaw firms sell out their integrity in exchange for relief from illegal retaliation from the Trump administration, lawyers and clients are distancing themselves from the settling firms. Some law students have already walked away from recruiting efforts by these firms.
DOJ Makes Up Fake Supreme Court Quote About Deportation Hoping No One Notices

2 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

The United States Department of Justice continues its effort to keep Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in an El Salvadoran slave camp even though they’ve already admitted in front of multiple tribunals up to and including the Supreme Court that he was deported in error. The DOJ’s most recent contribution to their oeuvre of excrement is a set of interrogatory responses filed in the district court proceeding.
Biglaw Captured Almost Half Of All Legal Spend Last Year

2 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

While everyone was busy doomscrolling… everything, Biglaw quietly tightened its grip on the legal market. Again. If you were wondering how almost half the Am Law 100 now qualify as “super rich”, look no further than the newly dropped 2025 CounselLink Trends Report. The annual deep dive into client spending reveals that law firms with 750+ lawyers account for 49.3 percent of all legal spend. That’s a healthy amount since the report clocked $67 billion in total legal spend last year.
Sam Alito Dissent Would Get Him Cold-Called Into Oblivion In Law School

3 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

On Friday, the ACLU asked the Supreme Court if it actually trusted the Trump administration to follow the law and around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, seven of the justices responded “LOL, no.” After already ordering the government to stop deporting people to El Salvador slave prison without due process, the government spent the end of the week moving detainees in a manner that looked suspiciously like the prelude to sending another shipment to the gulags.
Willy Wonka's In-House Counsel Is The Best Lawyer Parody You'll Watch Today

3 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

If you’re one of those lawyers toiling away at the firm and dreaming of a nice in-house job, consider the plight of this chief legal officer. Sure, serving the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was a dream job for a lot of years, but then one day the boss decided to run that Golden Ticket contest and everything went off the rails from there. Minor Character Theater has a mockumentary profiling a trying time in the life of Rutgers Law grad Brian Finklebar, former general counsel to the Wonka company.
Maybe Don't 'Both Sides' Disappearing People To Foreign Gulags, OK?

5 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Every so often, someone pings the tipster line and asks some variant of, “Why aren’t you more bipartisan?” Many times this is couched in a stream of expletives. Often it’s technically addressed to a guy that hasn’t worked here since before the pandemic. I don’t know if these people just don’t know that Elie Mystal left or if they find addressing their remarks to him provides a better hook for the racial slurs they want to drop.
Law School Cutting Scholarships For Students Who Don't Commit Fast Enough?

6 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Joe Patrice

Applying to law school is bad enough. Throwing your future into the hands of administrators applying bespoke black box methodologies to weigh your life’s work and a 4-hour test. Prospective students shouldn’t have to deal with exploding offers of financial assistance while waiting on a final decision from the 10 other schools on the list.

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Joe Patrice @JosephPatrice

10 Apr 25

Man… they rejected “effectuate” and these motherfuckers are going to say “facilitate” means we asked El Salvador to release the guy we paid them to hold and they said no so we’ve done our part.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will require the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. https://t.co/VAUQDgX2jZ https://t.co/lbvAWAXnyC

Joe Patrice @JosephPatrice

10 Apr 25

Jesus, you could get more by just not buying an F-35