David Lat

Who is David Lat?

David B. Lat is an American blogger and a former federal prosecutor. He is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a blog about law firms and the legal profession.

After moving from Bergenfield, New Jersey to Saddle River, Lat went trick-or-treating on Halloween at neighbors that included Richard Nixon.

Lat first began blogging under the pseudonym Article III Groupie, pretending to be a woman, 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. Afterward Lat left his job as assistant U.S. attorney to write for the political blog Wonkette.

In August 2006, Lat launched Above the Law, a blog about law firms and the legal profession, for the Breaking Media network of sites. 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.