* The next great chapter in first-year Contracts: stupid sports bets. [CBS] * What’s a little software piracy between post-Cold War friends, right? [CNN] * Soldiers busted for bribes in Iraq contracts. [MSNBC] * Lawyer takes advantage of that First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances… And it works! [WSJ […]
No, we have not canceled Legal Eagle Wedding Watch. We’re just a little behind. Okay, very far behind. So let’s not waste any more time. For the weekend of January 13-14, we’ll take a look at these three couples: 1. Jordan Chattman, Joseph Shumofsky 2. Johanna Francis, William Stroever 3. Daniella Steger, David Steinberg Scores […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
* Let’s begin with the practical. If you took the Bar/Bri bar review course between 1997 and 2006, please click here, so you can find out how to claim $125 for yourself (unless you want to go it on your own and try to get more). * Gay lawyer Aaron Charney and his former employer, […]
* For you Starbucks haters out there, a glimmer of hope for the days of cheap, dishwater-tasting, non-fair-trade coffee, served by exploited employees. Or Central Perk. [Mercury News] * In case you were worried about the gel-happy San Francisco mayor, Gavin Newsom still gets paid while in rehab. [Law.com] * When you’re a pre-boyfriend and […]
As we move into the weekend, we have a few more associate pay raise announcements to share with you. After the jump, there’s confirmed compensation news about Arent Fox, K&L Gates, Heller Ehrman, and Keker & Van Nest. We’ve also heard the rumors about Jones Day (Dallas) raising to $150K, from multiple sources. But we […]
HOLY CRAP!!! What the hell was SHANETTA CUTLAR doing at yesterday’s hearing in Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney? Has the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division decided to intervene in the case on Aaron Charney’s behalf? (Okay, seriously: Leaving New York Supreme Court yesterday were Charles Stillman, counsel to S&C; Daniel Alterman, counsel to Aaron Charney; […]
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We feel like we’re running an online group therapy session. Pretty much every week, another ex-employee of the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section (SPL) writes in to us, so he or she can vent their justifiable frustrations whine about the horrific challenging experience of working under super-diva Shanetta Y. Cutlar. Writing in to ATL seems […]
Here is the first set of our photographs from yesterday’s hearing in New York Supreme Court in the lawsuit(s) between Aaron Charney and Sullivan & Cromwell (litigation nickname still to be determined). We’ve taken a page from the Lavi Soloway playbook: these photos are thumbnail images. If you click on the thumbail, you’ll be able […]
More ATL coverage of yesterday’s proceedings in Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney will be appearing shortly. Be patient. Normally we’d apologize for the delay and beg your kind indulgence. But we have taken the advice of this commenter to heart. Having discovered our inner diva, we now say to you: You’ll get it when you’ll […]
As we mentioned yesterday, victorious Supreme Court litigant Anna Nicole Smith has passed away. She was 39, and the circumstances of her death are still being investigated. Here were some of your comments: “ANS, we’ll miss you. We celebrate your reunion with your son, and we mourn your separation from your newborn daughter. Thanks for […]
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Yesterday we opened a reader poll, asking for your help in picking a nickname for the ongoing litigation between megafirm Sullivan & Cromwell land its gay ex-associate, Aaron Charney. Upon further review of the options offered and the interim results, we’ve decided to run a second poll. It’s a pseudo-runoff, in that it includes two […]
Thank God it’s Friday. In addition to the imminent arrival of the weekend, Friday also means more associate pay raise announcements (or at least that’s our guess). Which big firms have not yet announced increases in base salaries for their associates? We’d expect to see a few of the stragglers move today, probably in the […]
* Spector trial may be on tv. [CNN] * WSJ Law Blog on the death of Anna Nicole Smith. [WSJ Law Blog] * Press, meet the cross-examination. [AP via Findlaw] * Thank you for suing. [AP via Findlaw] * And you too. [The Boston Globe via lexisONE]
* Between the carrot and the stick, it’s always the stick that prevails. [Truth on the Market] * One could hardly confuse Keith Urban the New Jersey oil painter with Keith Urban the Australian country singer. One paints, and the other sings is married to Nicole Kidman. [AOL Music] * I wonder what the Lithuanian […]
Please observe a moment of silence for one of the most celebrated litigants in the history of the Supreme Court. Anna Nicole Smith was a fascinating personality, and one of the great beauties of our time. From the Associated Press: Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian […]