Above the Law

1 day ago | abovethelaw.com | Liz Dye

On May 23, US District Judge Allison Burroughs granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from kicking Harvard University out of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) that allows it to sponsor foreign student visas. The government wasn’t subtle about kneecapping the school as punishment for First Amendment protected activity, and even explicitly tied the decision to the school’s failure to ensure “viewpoint diversity” on campus.

2 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Jeremy Barker

As ILTA noted in its 2024 technology survey, 67% percent of firms are already leveraging the benefits of cloud-based solutions, with another 13% planning to transition in the next 12 months. To help firms understand the latest in cloud-based legal tech, our friends at Litera recently invited our audience to attend a CLE-eligible webinar titled “Unlocking The Cloud: Transforming Legal Document Drafting With Cloud-Based Solutions.”We’re pleased to share a few video takeaways from the discussion.

4 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Liz Dye

On March 21, Mayor Ras Baraka walked out of the federal courthouse in Newark a free man. After filing a preposterous criminal trespass complaint against the mayor for briefly coming onto the grounds of an ICE detention center, New Jersey’s acting US Attorney Alina dropped the claim just two weeks later “for the sake of moving forward.” Instead, she opted to charge Rep. LaMonica McIver for assaulting ICE agents as they tried to arrest Mayor Baraka.

4 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Jeremy Barker

I recently had the privilege of moderating a webinar called “What GCs Want From Their Outside Counsel” with an impressive panel of chief legal officers: Danielle Sheer (Commvault), Rob Morvillo (Olo), and Vanessa Candela (Celonis). All three are sharp, experienced, and deeply respected in the in-house community — and together, they delivered the kind of unvarnished commentary that law firm lawyers don’t often get to hear.

5 days ago | abovethelaw.com | Chris Williams

“You’re welcome to do dealings with foreign governments when it makes sense, but don’t go accepting compromising deals as their agents or get knighted or something.” Not only is this some simple advice, it is echoed constitutionally in the emoluments clause! Now, was incorporating this sentiment in our supreme document enough to prevent Trump from accepting a $400M totally-not-a-bribe plane from Qatar or Justice Alito becoming a Constantinian knight?