May 2007
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Bar Exams, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Bar Stipends vs. Salary Advances
An inquiry from a curious reader who will be starting at a Biglaw shop in New York in a few months: It seems my friends starting work for Latham & Watkins this fall have received stipends (i.e. signing bonuses) of more than $13,000! And I thought I had a good deal when my NY firm […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 5.29.07
* Crazy Georgia woman loses her bid to de-Harry Potter-fy Gwinnett County Schools. [Fulton County Daily Report] * For a man with a rare and deadly form of TB, he sure was getting around. [ AP via Yahoo! News] * FTC not sure about Google buying Doubleclick. [Jurist] * Roddick sucks, and gets pretty pissed […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Clerkships, Vicious Infighting
Clerk Email War Update
We’ve gotten a flurry of updates on the email war. Here’s a sampling: At the risk of incurring the wrath of everyone…, I have decided to throw myself out in front of the train in an attempt to alleviate the inevitable eruption of spiteful emails that continually come forth over a list serve designed to […]
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Clerkships, Vicious Infighting
Sectarian Violence in the Federal Courts: Career Clerks v. Non-Career Clerks
An email from a federal district court clerk regarding a pending proposal that would harm career clerks vis-a-vis non-career clerks has apparently touched off an email war between the career clerks and the non-clerks. The original email, and every subsequent email, is being sent to every single district court clerk in the country. According to […] -
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Limits Pay Discrimination Suits
In yet another 5-4 decision with Kennedy casting the deciding vote, the Supreme Court today limited the ability to sue under Title VII for pay decisions made prior to the 180-day EEOC charge period. That’s about all we got out of the very small portion of the opinion that we had the time or inclination […] -
Lawyer of the Day
Lawyer of the Day: Michael K. Brandow
Michael K. Brandow, of the Chicago firm of Brady Connolly & Masuda, P.C., is an irresistable-force, immovable-object, Chuck-Norris-like-awesome worker’s compensation attorney. How does he do it? By sucking the life force out of his opponents and anyone else who might stand in his way with his creepy stare. So mighty is he that in the […] -
Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Reed Smith Summers Making More Than First-Years?
According to one of our anonymous tipsters, that’s the case in the New York office until July, when the associate raises will kick in. When the associates complained, what were they given as the reason? “That’s the market. We have to pay our summers the market rate.” But they don’t have to pay the associates […] -
Lawsuit of the Day: Not Without My Angus
The Carl’s, Jr. fast-food restaurant chain has sued competitor Jack in the Box over commercials that it says implies that its Angus burgers are made from, shall we say, the least desirable area of the cow. When asked for comment on the suit, Jack of Jack in the Box had the following to say: Jack: […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Elizabeth Halverson, Fat People, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Another Update on the Large and (for the moment still) In Charge Judge Elizabeth Halverson
Jane Ann Morrison, columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, had a column yesterday that put quite a smackdown on two-time Judge of the Day Elizabeth Halverson (see her previous honors here and here). Along with some catty renditions of some of the facts we already knew (like the fact that Judge Halverson’s pre-judicial legal experience […] -
1/2 of MD is Blog-Sitting Again
We’re coming to you from Athens, Georgia once again (hopefully with a better map this time). While Lat makes his way back from losing his ass at the blackjack tables his friend’s wedding in Vegas over the weekend, we’ll be holding down the fort. We’ve got some good stuff in the pipeline, but feel free […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 5.29.07
* Umm, is this really that surprising? Would be kinda scary if it were the opposite… [Jurist] * No driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs: California Rule! [CNN] * Alabama latest to say “our bad” on slavery. [ Fulton County Daily Report] * Pakistani lesbian couple jailed for being gay perjury. [Jurist] * […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.25.07
* Women’s unmentionables are pricey, but even the total value of 1,300 pairs of 100% cotton granny panties would amount to a felony. (Yeah, I hate the word “panty” too.) [ABC News (Denver)] * The bad news is that you’ll never eat your greens again. The good news is that he is STD-free. [Daily Herald] […] -
Admin, Biglaw, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: The Latest Announcements
It’s the Friday before a major holiday — and firms are scrambling to get their pay raise announcements out the door. It’s a nice way to send your bedraggled and overworked hardworking associates into a three-day weekend (assuming they don’t need to come in on Monday). We’re about to sign off for the weekend, and […]
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Crime, Free Speech, Holy Crap, Pets, Politics, Rudeness
A Hypothetical for Next Year's Crim Law Final Exam
Here’s a development that has Colorado prosecutors saying “oh crap” — quite literally. From the Rocky Mountain News: A former Democratic Party activist who left dog feces on the doorstep of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s Greeley office during last year’s 4th Congressional District campaign was found not guilty Wednesday of criminal use of a noxious […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, Skaddenfreude
Clerkship Bonus Watch: Paul Weiss and Cahill Gordon
Okay, commenters, break it up. There’s no need to come to blows over the propriety of discussing clerkship bonuses in a salary post. Here at ATL, there’s enough cyberspace for everyone. We’re putting an end to the turf wars, by giving you a new, dedicated thread for talking about clerkship bonuses. We’ll kick things off […] -
Harvard Law Review, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Vicious Infighting
Gannett House Smackdown: Internecine Warfare at the Harvard Law Review (Part 1)
As promised, here’s the first installment in our series about infighting at America’s top law journal: the Harvard Law Review. Some HLR editors are unhappy with the Review’s new fearless leader, president Andrew Crespo, and have been expressing their concerns. We’ve been leaked a number of HLR internal emails that some of you may find […] -
Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Brown Rudnick, James Sandman, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Sidley Austin, Arnold & Porter, Brown Rudnick
It’s a busy morning, right before the big Memorial Day holiday weekend. There’s breaking news of associate pay raises from Sidley Austin, Arnold & Porter (hi James Sandman!!!), and Brown Rudnick. The Sidley Austin memo appears after the jump. The raise to the $160K scale covers Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington. It’s […] -
Alberto Gonzales, D. Kyle Sampson, Department of Justice, Fabulosity, House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, Politics, U.S. Attorneys Offices, You Go Girl
Monica Goodling: They Like Her, They Really Like Her
Those of you who read our extensive liveblogging of Monica Goodling’s testimony on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee know how deeply impressed we were. Goodling was poised, intelligent, and articulate. She showed flashes of wit, as well as consistent honesty and forthrightness. She looked like a million bucks. On a scale of 0 to […] -
Biglaw, Hotties, Law Schools, Summer Associates
Summer Associate of the Day: Victoria Bechtold Kush
Like ATL’s most recent Summer Associate of the Day, our latest honoree is also a hottie. And that’s not a matter of opinion; it’s a certified fact. On the heels of yesterday’s Miss Connecticut International turned litigatrix, we learn of another beauty pageant winner who has turned in her tiara for a stack of BNA […] -
Antitrust, Bar Exams, BARBRI, Eliot Disner, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: McGuireWoods Fires Eliot Disner
As you may recall (from yesterday’s Morning Docket), Eliot Disner is the McGuireWoods partner who criticized the settlement negotiated by his firm in an antitrust class action against Bar/Bri, the giant bar exam prep company. Actually, make that “former McGuireWoods partner.” From today’s New York Law Journal: Mr. Disner, who was a partner in the […]