Although located uncomfortably close to the site of yesterday’s steam pipe explosion, Davis Polk & Wardwell has some of the nicest offices around. When we were in law school, Davis was known as “Land of the Beautiful People.” They had the most gorgeous offices, and the best-looking associates (and summer associates). DPW also seems to […]
Maybe this is true. Or maybe it’s a joke. From the Greedy NY board: Can we get confirmation…just heard from my wife’s friend at S&C (through my wife) but I don’t know her well enough to ask for the memo….thank you God. We have emails and calls in to the firm. If you’re at S&C […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Hey kids, guess what? It IS possible to get fired from your cushy summer associate gig! You need to try hard — really hard. It’s even harder than passing the bar exam. But it’s not impossible. This summer has already claimed at least one victim. Multiple sources advise that a summer associate in the Chicago […]
Studying frantically for the bar exam next week? Don’t have enough to worry about already? We’re here to help. From Eric Turkewitz, over at the New York Personal Injury Law Blog: My bar exam [responses] were lost. Not all of them, mind you, just the 200 multi-state multiple choices answers I scored on that computer […]
Following closely on news of the Vinson & Elkins raise, Andrews Kurth has also raised salaries for first- and second-year associates, to $160,000 and $170,000, respectively. As explained in the memo, the firm is “still working on the details of the compensation structure for other associate classes.” Here’s an article from the Texas Lawyer. What […]
* When the music stopped, Craig Morford, interim U.S. attorney in Nashville, was left standing. So now Morford must fill Paul McNulty’s uncomfortable shoes as Deputy Attorney General — after several others apparently passed on the job. [Washington Post; New York Times] * New Jersey lawyer Shalom Stone may need to be as charming as […]
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A steam pipe exploded on Manhattan’s East Side, right in the middle of evening rush hour. One person is dead and more than twenty are injured. Eyewitnesses describe it as “the scariest thing I’ve seen since 9/11” — a scene of mass hysteria, with “thousands running fearfully” through city streets. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving […]
* Patent litigation: Ka-ching! But it’s tricky; proceed with caution. [Eric Goldman] * More thoughts on Urinalgate. [Nasty, Brutish & Short] * Rudy Giuliani on judicial appointments — featuring a shout out to Judge Roy Pearson, of $54 million pants infamy. [Pajamas Media; Instapundit] * To Sue a Network. [1010wins.com] * The scary thing about […]
We’re late to the party on this one. Many of you have already emailed us this Slate piece, in which Daniel Gross goes to town on Simpson Thacher’s “Chow for Charity” program. Article title: “Fifteen Dollars Worth of Smug.” We first read about Simpson’s program in this great New York Observer article: [A]t Simpson Thacher […]
We continue our series examining perks or fringe benefits provided by legal employers. We’ve already covered technology allowances, gym memberships, marriage bonuses, and help with housing. Today we tackle a subject that’s kinda boring, but very important: retirement benefits and financial planning. If you don’t think about this stuff now, you’ll be chewing ramen with […]
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.
This should delight some of our commenters: With 36.7 percent of the vote, Avery Gardiner and Edwin U are the winners of our Couple of the Month contest for June! It was a close race, but in the end Avery and Edwin held off a strong challenge by Serena Hoy and James Reilly. Congratulations to […]
What do you get when you put the three smartest judges on the Seventh Circuit — Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner, and Diane Wood — on the same panel? In this case, something weird. Very weird. It’s amusing to imagine this trio of legal geniuses wrapping their minds around such a bizarre fact pattern. Questions Presented: […]
Last night, a tipster preparing for the New York bar exam sent us this message: I ordered a pizza and Diet Coke earlier…. Dominos called to say they’re out of Diet Coke. I immediately started running through the UCC Article 2 analysis of imperfect tender w/ notice… I decided then and there I deserve to […]
We’re going to be offline for a few hours. If anything big happens while we’re gone, and we don’t write about it immediately, now you know why. (Posts that we drafted earlier will be published while we’re gone.) We’re going to attend this event, about the economics of internet advertising — which, of course, is […]
Word on the street is that Vinson & Elkins has raised salaries for its Texas and Washington associates. But we haven’t confirmed it directly with someone at V&E. If you can confirm this rumor, please email us. Update (11:08 AM): That was fast; thanks! It’s confirmed: V&E has raised associate salaries for first- and second-year […]