Former Sullivan & Cromwell associates take many different career paths. Some join smaller firms or go in-house; some file lawsuits against S&C; and some join government service. Last week we wrote about the high-powered William A. Burck (OT 1999/Kennedy), who has had his ticket punched by some of the legal world’s top employers: Sullivan & […]
Check out this exchange of correspondence. Job Application Etiquette: The Polite Rejection Letter [Fortune’s Legal Pad via Overlawyered]
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* Southern Poverty Law Center’s getting it done. [CNN] * NLJ reports that Camp 6 at Gitmo shows little improvement for cleared prisoners. [Law.com] * Bobby Brown has to stay downtown (until he throws down about nineteen thou’). [CNN] * Barry Bonds won’t cooperate in steroids investigation. [Sportsline] * Anna Nicole Smith’s mom appeals. [CNN]
This is a continuation of our prior post, Brokeback Lawfirm: The New York Magazine Piece (Part 1), which discussed the first half of Robert Kolker’s New York magazine article about Aaron Charney. Our discussion picks up on page three (web pagination) of Kolker’s piece. At the top of that page is this fabulous graphic, entitled […]
* Maybe you read this over Sunday brunch. I was going to make a crack about barely educated sorority girls in schools I’ve never heard of in states I’ve barely heard of, but then I thought of this, or this, or this. You know who should shed some light on this? Tyra. [New York Times] […]
They should have induced delivery by Baker Botts associate Alexandra Walsh, so she would have popped out her baby girl in the middle of trial, before the jury (and preferably during the strongest part of the government’s case, for maximum distraction value). Delivering a baby in open court would have created a magnificently dramatic scene. […]
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We’ve now finished reading Robert Kolker’s interesting and highly detailed New York Magazine article about Aaron Charney (a piece that we’ve been anticipating for weeks). And we do have a few thoughts on it — besides admiration for Ted Partin’s elegant, black-and-white headshot of a trim-but-borderline-emaciated Aaron Charney, at right. On the whole, the piece […]
We’ve given it almost no coverage here at ATL (largely because it doesn’t seem very amusing). But yes, in case you haven’t heard, former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby is being tried on perjury charges. The jury has been deliberating for over two days. And they’ve just lost a member: The presiding judge […]
Yup, we watched the Academy Awards ceremony last night. We sat through the whole damn thing. As always, it was overlong. But at least we were struck by inspiration. It’s only a matter of time before the Aaron Charney story gets turned into a Lifetime Original Movie. And when it does, we have a recommendation […]
Two more firms drop off the LIST OF SHAME. First, we received this information about Nixon Peabody, on Friday afternoon: Email came out today, but i do not yet have access to scan it. NYC was bumped to 160, Boston/Wash/CA bumped to 145, Long Island bumped to 115. Second, over the weekend, Vinson & Elkins […]
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The New York Magazine piece about Aaron Charney, which we have been eagerly awaiting, is finally out. The article, by Robert Kolker, looks long and juicy (hehe). We haven’t read it yet, but we’re about to. You can check it out for yourself by clicking here. In the meantime, check out this quasi-artsy, black-and-white, dramatically […]
We’ve always admired Harvard Law School. It struck us as a place of high seriousness. It didn’t succumb to the latest trends in legal education. It didn’t train philsopher-kings; it trained LAWYERS, dammit. So what if its students were kinda miserable? They got the best, most rigorous legal education money could buy. In short, HLS […]
As Coco Chanel once observed, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” A new feature over at Gawker, called Altarcations, is like Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, but for civilians. The arrival of Altarcations reminds us of how far behind we are with LEWW. We continue to whittle away at our backlog, and we hope to […]
* “Hi, I’m Mac.” “And I’m a European antitrust regulator.” … “What have you done with PC??” [MSNBC] * There’s never been a better time to be a 2L. In related news, being a 1L is still hell. [WSJ Law Blog] * Speaking of 2Ls, Loyola 2L should monitor this case on anonymous posting, currently […]
This email has been making the rounds of law firm associates around the country. By the time it reached us, the lengthy forwarding chain included these endorsements (among many others): “Priceless.” “Brilliant!” “This absolutely made my day.” “Funniest dial-in screw-up in the history of civilization.” Here’s the original email (with merciful redactions by us): From: […]