Thanks for your responses to our recent call for memos. Here are two more firms that have announced associate pay raises: 1. Crowell & Moring: Starting salaries to $160,000, effective August 1. Minimum billables to 1900 hours, effective September 1. Associates who do not wish to meet the new minimum are invited to reach “alternative […]
* Did John Carney’s guest post attacking Dahlia Lithwick tick you off? Then read this, it’s funny. [QuizLaw] * Is having a personal injury lawyer in your “hot yoga” class a wise idea? Not as bad as you might think. [The Recorder] * Could admin law be turned into a computer game? Quite possibly — […]
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Okay, this is kinda random. But it’s Friday, so please give us some latitude. (Also, we have previously covered this subject, in a way that connected it to the legal world. So there.) As you all know, today is I-Day: the first day that Apple’s coveted iPhone will be available for sale to the general […]
It’s fitting that on this, the last week of the Supreme Court term, LEWW is considering a major test case. The issue: One couple has a Rhodes Scholarship, one has a SCOTUS clerkship, and one has two YLS degrees. How do we rank them? Throw in a divorce, a famous grandparent, a couple of PhDs, […]
Our email correspondence with the super-hot lawyer turned Playboy model, Oona O’Connell, continues. A brief question-and-answer session, plus an uncropped version of this Oonalicious photo, after the jump.
After yesterday, we thought they were all done for the Term. We thought wrong. Some notable news from the Supreme Court today. Lyle Denniston of the invaluable SCOTUSblog reports: In a startling turn of events in the legal combat over the war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to reconsider the appeals in […]
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Earlier this month, we posted about the laptop policy of the New York Bar Exam. A lot of you weren’t fans: But this story, like the Oona O’Connell saga, also has a happy ending. For those of you who care, details appear after the jump.
[Thumbnail image. Click to enlarge. Photograph courtesy of Oona O’Connell.] There should be a law — against this kind of hotness in a U.S. law school classroom! As you may recall, lawyer cum Playboy model Oona O’Connell was not pleased by our prior coverage of her. She recently sent us an angry email, taking us […]
Back on Wednesday, we reported that Howrey LLP plans to chuck lockstep compensation for its associates. Starting in 2008, the firm will employ a “competency model,” in which it would “determine salary based on individual evaluations and various forms of progress indicators.” Today our scoop was picked up by The Recorder (and then by the […]
Here’s a quick follow-up on Wednesday’s post, reporting on Supreme Court clerk hiring for October Term 2008. That’s not the Term whose clerks will start showing up for work next month — the October Term 2007 clerks are listed here — but the Term after that. Interestingly enough, the two justices thought most likely to […]
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A quick reminder: We want your memos. We hear rumors of associate pay raises at particular firms all the time, but we generally don’t treat the news as official until we see a memorandum (assuming there is one). Please send them to us by email. We reprint below two memos that arrived in our inbox […]
* This whole thing is just out-of-control weird. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * I was very wrong; it is going away. [NYT] * You would think that a suicide attempt might be good enough for a mistrial. [Reno Gazette-Journal] * Court overrules per se rule on price fixing. [U.S . Supreme Court(PDF)] * Mr. Quarterman is a […]
[Thumbnail image. Click to enlarge. Photograph courtesy of Oona O’Connell.] WOW. Wouldn’t sitting next to this hottie in Torts class be just a wee bit distracting? We rarely hear from people about whom we’ve written. This is generally a good thing. But every now and then, one of them drops us a line. And sometimes […]
* Not planning on reading almost 200 pages of opinions in the school assignment cases, but afraid of sounding like an idiot at the next cocktail party? Here’s a handy primer. [WSJ Law Blog] * Not putting stock in that JP Morgan “farewell email” now making the rounds by email? Pat yourself on the back. […]
It’s not easy to be a two-time winner of our Lawyer of the Day award. But after reading this post, we think that you’ll find Colorado lawyer Alison Maynard more than worthy of this honor. Longtime readers of ATL will surely recall Alison “Sunny” Maynard from our prior coverage. But in case you don’t, here’s […]