Terminator doesn't seem so dystopian anymore!
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Joe Patrice is an Editor at Above the Law. For over a decade, he practiced as a...
Kathryn Rubino is a member of the editorial staff at Above the Law. She has a degree...
Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021....
| Published: | December 17, 2025 |
| Podcast: | Above the Law - Thinking Like a Lawyer |
| Category: | News & Current Events |
If you want 2025 in a nutshell, it doesn’t get much better than a blundering Secretary of Defense bragging that the Pentagon bought an expensive, bespoke AI bot and it immediately started calling out the Trump administration for committing war crimes. As the legal industry ventures into a hallucinatory AI frontier, it’s worth remembering that sometimes the bots outperform the human lawyers. At the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor tries to convince her colleagues not to blow up the federal government over a theory concocted in the 1970s. Sadly, she’s fighting the wrong fight. And in a world of mergers — especially cross-border mergers — we have a reminder that sometimes it doesn’t work out.
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Above the Law's Joe Patrice, Kathryn Rubino and Chris Williams examine everyday topics through the prism of a legal framework.
