On the heels of Sullivan & Cromwell’s announcement of its new $50,000 clerkship bonus, we will endeavor to find out what other large law firms are doing on this front. If you know your law firm’s current clerkship bonus policy, please email us (subject line: “Clerkship Bonus”). We will serve as a clearinghouse for clerkship […]
* This isn’t Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas, but in a way, people are still lost. [Chicago Tribune] * Speaking of Paris, Texas, here’s some trivia for you: the brother of one of its stars’ former partners (and father of one of her children as well as Pam’s new competition on The Office) was nominated to […]
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
(No, not THAT Monica — it’s a bit late for that, dontcha think?) Breaking news from Bloomberg: Monica Goodling, a counsel to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who helped coordinate the dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, will invoke her constitutional right not to answer Senate questions about the firings, her lawyer said. Goodling, one of […]
No, not Loyola 2L — Loyola Professor! (And Ted Seto graduated from Harvard Law, where he served on the Law Review; so he can’t be dismissed as having a tier-two ax to grind.) Understanding the U.S. News Law School Rankings [SSRN] Theodore P. Seto bio [Loyola Law School]
In addition to our Law School March Madness, we have a few other things going on at ATL where your participation would be most welcome: 1. Please take our reader survey. It’s quick, painless, and of great help to us. 2. Please submit a nomination for our U.S. Attorney hotties contest. We have a fair […]
This morning we announced, with much fanfare, the arrival of ATL March Madness: Law Schools. We posted the brackets, which you can review by clicking here, and we opened the polls in one half of the draw. Now we bring you the other half of the tournament. Here’s the first poll, pitting the Midwest against […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
If you’ve been rooting for Aaron Charney in the Charney v. Sullivan & Cromwell litigation, you have a duty to change your allegiances — at least for the rest of March. Why? Because March, in case you didn’t know, is Law Firm Appreciation Month!!! We didn’t realize this until we received this press release, from […]
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Justice Stephen Breyer recently appeared on NPR’s popular trivia show, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. Alas, his performance on the trivia portion of the show — which focused on biographical details about rock stars — was less than illustrious. This led one of the hosts to scold Justice Breyer as follows: “Back to the appeals […]
We noticed that you guys enjoy trash talking about rival law schools. And we also realize, despite our general ignorance about sports, that we are now in the midst of “March Madness.” So, as several of you requested, we are introducing a March Madness-inspired feature to ATL. Welcome to ATL MARCH MADNESS: LAW SCHOOLS!!! Here […]
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.
One of you posted this in the comments, and we subsequently verified it with sources at the firm. Late last week, this announcement was made internally at Sullivan & Cromwell: I am pleased to announce that Vince DiBlasi, Andrew Gerlach, Tracy Richelle High, Jessica Klein, Keith Pagnani, Melissa Sawyer, Karen Seymour, and Fred Rich, as […]
* Feel like putting down a couple hundred on Barack Obama or John Edwards? [Slate] * Sen. Hagel uses the “i” word. [MSNBC] * “New U.S. attorneys seem to have partisan records.” [McClatchy via Election Law Blog] * AG Gonzales feeling more heat from GOP Senators. [How Appealing (linkwrap)] * Does DVR violate copyright laws? […]
Unless required to do so as part of court-ordered community service. But even when scrubbing toilets, she still looks like a million bucks. From the NYT: First there was a cry, then a murmur, and finally a swoon. Naomi Campbell, the millionaire fashion model, emerged yesterday from a grimy Department of Sanitation garage in a […]
* With the advanced state of medical technology, it won’t be long before some pol subjects every pregnant woman to a recording of her fetus pleading, “Please, Mommy, don’t kill me!” [MSN] * What on earth was he planning on doing with all that money? I’m thinking a tragic Gatsby-esque scenario. [ABA Journal E-Report] * […]
People in certain lines of work — e.g., litigation, rapping, blogging — develop pretty thick skins. If you get attacked, insulted, and criticized on a daily basis, you stop noticing it pretty quickly. So why is Eminem so sensitive? (He claims he’s going to court to protect his 11-year-old daughter, Hailie, from being exposed to […]