Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model. 1] Nancy B.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) Ed Walters, CEO at Fastcase, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase , a legal intelligence company based in Washington, D.C. Today we take for granted that legal services must be reformed, or they will be disrupted.

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Above The Law

JUNE 2, 2025

While a few law firms chose to challenge the executive orders in court, the majority of firms targeted by the president entered into informal settlement agreements whereby the firms promised to provide between $40 million and $125 million worth of free pro bono legal services to causes supported by the president.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The Washington Post reported that the discussion included targeting or threatening critics with defamation lawsuits. When I was reviewing the investment I was going to make, I did it in — as part of my diligence on evaluating that transaction. I — you know, but I did diligence on the assets. A Oh, well, yeah.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

First, from the Washington Post : The Justice Department suspended a veteran lawyer after he said in court that officials mistakenly deported a man to prison in his home country of El Salvador and conceded that he did not know the legal basis for the expulsion. The appeals court has final say on attorney discipline in Washington.

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