David Lat

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Lat
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1975(1975-06-19)
Age	49
Birthplace	Bergenfield
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Gemini

David Lat Biography

David Lat is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 19, 1975 in Bergenfield, New Jersey, United States. David Benjamin Lat (born June 19th 1975) is an American lawyer writer, author, and commentator. Lat is the creator of Above the Law, a website dedicated to law firms and the legal profession.

The blog was revealed in November of 2005. Lat disclosed the identity of A3G in an interview Jeffrey Toobin for the magazine The New Yorker. Lat declared the following “[t]he blog really reflects two aspects of my personality, I am very interested in serious legal issues as well as in fun and frivolous and gossipy issues. I can go from the Harvard Law Review to Us Weekly very quickly.” After being dismissed from the U.S. Attorney’s office in January 2006, Lat became an editor of the Washington, D.C. blog Wonkette (at the time being part of the Gawker Media network), previously run by Ana Marie Cox.

Lat first began blogging anonymously for the judicial gossip blog “Underneath Their Robes,” until he revealed his identity in a November 2005 interview with Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker. Shortly thereafter, Lat launched Above the Law, a website featuring news about law firms and the legal profession and legal gossip. In December 2014, Lat published his debut novel, Supreme Ambitions.

In June 2006, Lat announced his decision to leave Wonkette in order to form a legal gossip blog with Dealbreaker’s Elizabeth Spiers. In August 2006, this blog was founded as ‘Above the Law’. In July 2008, he became the managing editor of Breaking Media, overseeing its stable of blogs out of its New York office. In December 2009, Lat announced that he would be returning to full- time writing and editing of Above the Law, after a new CEO and executive editor joined Breaking Media.

In June of 2004, Lat anonymously started the website Underneath Their Robes (UTR) A gossip site on the federal judiciary with his pseudonym Article III Groupie. The site is which is also known as A3G. Although Lat stated his experience as an ex-judicial clerk for the federal court at a top law school He also gave readers the impression that the writer was a female attorney at an established law firm. The blog became popular after it conducted a survey regarding”the “Superhotties of the Federal Judiciary” as well as several federal judges, such as Alex Kozinski and Richard Posner and Richard Posner, contacted Article III Groupie. The blog featured interviews with judges, and garnered national media attention following The 2005 U.S. Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts, Harriet Miers as well as Samuel Alito. The blog also functioned as a repository for stories and gossip regarding clerks at The Supreme Court, whom A3G described as “the Elect.”

David Lat Net Worth

David Lat is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Lat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied English and wrote numerous articles in The Harvard Crimson, and was an active participant in the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society. He graduated with the degree of Master of Arts magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating in the year 1996.

After the law school and graduation, he was able to serve as an judicial law clerk for an appeals court judge from the federal circuit in Portland Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain. This was during the judicial term 1999-2000. Following an internship, he was able to move into the Manhattan firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. While at Wachtell they worked on a dispute over insurance payments to the World Trade Center on behalf of the client of Wachtell, Larry Silverstein. One Wachtell partner reported that he was extremely unhappy at the monotony of the litigation.

After leaving Wachtell, Lat took a job in the appeals division of the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, and twice argued before Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. When his blogging became public, he met with then-U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, who praised his blog. At the end of 2005, Lat left his job at the U.S. Attorney’s office. He reported that the resignation was his own choice, though his supervisor encouraged him to take any blogging opportunities afforded by his new celebrity.

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On March 17, 2020, Lat announced he was infected with COVID-19. He was listed in critical condition, intubated in a hospital in New York City as of March 20, but his condition improved substantially by March 28. He was discharged from NYU Langone on April 1. On April 6, 2020, he was interviewed on the Today television show about his experience.

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Who founded above the law?

David Lat , a lawyer and writer, publishes at Original Jurisdiction, a Substack newsletter about law and legal affairs. He’s also the founding editor of Above the Law, which originated from Underneath Their Robes, a blog that he wrote under a pseudonym, about the federal bench.

Who runs Above the Law?

Type of siteTrade news website
Available in| English
Owner| Breaking Media
URL| abovethelaw.com
Commercial| Yes

Does the Constitution say the president is above the law?

As the Supreme Court emphatically – and on this point, unanimously – reminded us all, the president may occupy the highest office in the land, but he is not above the law. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Court’s opinion in both cases. The first case, Trump v.

Who is above the law in Canada?

The rule of law means that no one is above the law. Everyone — including politicians, police officers, and wealthy individuals — must obey the law. All Canadians must respect the law even if they disagree with it.

What does it mean to be above the law?

(idiomatic) Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else. quotations ▼ The emperor is above the law. You may think you’re above the law, but you’re not.