This news isn’t as exciting as a holiday bonus or a pay raise. But it does mean that if you took the Bar/Bri bar review course between 1997 and 2006 — hey, that includes us! — you can buy a round of $12 martinis for you and a few friends. According to a tipster: According […]
We’ve had a lot of debate in these pages concerning the cost of living in different U.S. cities. Folks have been arguing over whether the high cost of living in New York justifies the NYC pay scale of $160K and up, as opposed to the $145K pay scale that seems to have taken hold in […]
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
* Pony up, you cheap bastards. You all like using the court, don’t you? [U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit via How Appealing] * Wittig gets 24 months at second resentencing. [Jurist] * Hopefully the publicity will be worth the $2 million. [CNN.com] * Homeless on homeless violence results in murders in scrap […]
This post picks up where our last one left off, in a page-by-page review of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Complaint (PDF) in S&C v. Charney. Our earlier thoughts are available here. Now we’re up to the juiciest part: Paragraph 19. This paragraph concerns a certain confidential, internal firm document, which was leaked to the Wall Street […]
We’ve now had a chance to read the complaint in Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney (PDF), the countersuit filed by S&C against its former associate, Aaron Charney. The Complaint itself is only ten pages, so it’s a quick read. Last month, Charney sued S&C, alleging anti-gay discrimination and retaliation. Last Thursday, the firm filed its […]
The WSJ Law Blog has just posted a copy of the Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney complaint. You can access it by clicking here (PDF). How exciting! We’ll have some thoughts on it shortly. If you’ve already read the S&C Complaint, please opine in the comments. Lavi Soloway’s already all over the story. As Soloway […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
* I won’t comment on trial lawyers in general, but I’ll admit to instant suspicion of boyish-looking politicians. I’d rather trust creepy-looking John Edward. [Crime & Federalism] * Wiki is as wiki does. [TaxProfs Blog] * I have a lot of questions… Like how could the impact of Valle’s body force the elevators door open? […]
This will probably be our last salary-related post of the day, so you can treat it as the end-of-day open thread. We’ll post any memos we receive later today sometime tomorrow morning (unless they’re extraordinary for some reason). Here’s a good short item about D.C. pay developments, by Nate Carlile of the Legal Times. According […]
Whoops! This reader poll has been closed for a while, but we forgot to report back to you about the results. Here’s what we asked you, and how you voted: And here’s a reminder of why we conducted the poll. A reader wrote to us: Would you consider a poll asking how many hours people […]
Newsweek has an interesting article about retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The gist of the piece is that even though Justice O’Connor is longer on the Court, she’s still extremely busy. Since her SCOTUS retirement, she has served on the Iraq Study Group, which published its report not too long ago; sat by […]
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Bloomberg News has a very good article about Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney, the lawsuit filed by mega-firm S&C against its former associate, Aaron Charney. It’s more detailed than the New York Sun and TheLawyer.com articles that we mentioned this morning. Some highlights: Sullivan & Cromwell said in their complaint, filed in New York State […]
If Aaron Charney’s lawsuit against Sullivan & Cromwell is to be believed, some S&C lawyers think that Canadians are “irrelevant.” Feel free to debate the relevance in Canadians in the comments. One thing that can be said for them, though, is that their lawyers have pretty good sex scandals. From an article in the Toronto […]
Here’s the lunchtime open thread for discussion of associate salary developments. In the morning thread, there are rumors about various announcement that allegedly have (or have not) been made. Please send us whatever info you have, so we can verify and post. After the jump, the Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announcement, which made the rounds […]
We’re still trying to get the motion papers in Sullivan & Cromwell v. Charney, the lawsuit S&C has filed against its (former) associate. Unfortunately, we haven’t had any luck just yet. We’ve contacted some MSM friends who have been following the case, but they either don’t have the documents or aren’t willing to share them. […]
Last month we wrote about how Docket Review is conducted over at the Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section (SPL). Attorneys who have worked under Shanetta Cutlar, chief of the section, have described Docket Review with her as an excruciating experience. Since then, we’ve received some more information about the process. A recent email from a […]