David Lat
About David Lat
I'm the author of Original Jurisdiction, a newsletter on the Substack platform about law and legal affairs, and I write a column for Bloomberg Law. My work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among other publications. I speak to law firms and corporate legal departments at firm-wide or company retreats, partner retreats, summer associate gatherings, diversity celebrations, and other events. Prior to launching Original Jurisdiction in December 2019, I founded and served as managing editor (2006-2017) of Above the Law ("ATL"), a widely read and award-winning website about the legal profession that reaches more than 1.5 million unique visitors a month. Prior to ATL, I launched Underneath Their Robes, a popular and buzz-generating blog about federal judges that I wrote under a pseudonym. Before entering the media world, I worked as a federal prosecutor, a litigation associate at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. I graduated from Regis High School, Harvard College, and Yale Law School, where I served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. My first book, Supreme Ambitions: A Novel, was published in 2014. According to the New York Times, “for an elite niche — consisting largely of federal judges and their clerks — Supreme Ambitions has become the most buzzed-about novel of the year.” If you're interested in learning more about my writing or speaking services, please don't hesitate to reach out. Thanks! Phone: 917-397-2751 Email: davidlat@substack.com Websites: https://davidlat.substack.com/ and https://davidlat.com/