September 2007
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Bad Ideas, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Gay, Jack Thompson, Pornography, Practice Pointers, Videos
ATL Practice Pointers: Do Not File Gay Porn With Judge Jordan
When it comes to knowing how to make proper court filings, don’t bother with the FRCP, or even the local rules. Just read ATL. We tell you everything you need to know. E.g., don’t file an egg with Judge James Muirhead (D.N.H.). And don’t file gay pornography with Judge Adalberto Jordan (S.D. Fla.). From GamePolitics.com: […] -
Crime, Law Schools, Violence
St. John's Law School Under Lockdown!
This story is a few hours old, but we heard about it just now. From a tipster at St. John’s University Law School, in Jamaica, Queens: If you haven’t already heard — nearly the entire law school has been stuck in the school since a gunman was apprehended at 2:30 this afternoon. Seeing as how […] - Sponsored
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Animal Law, Biglaw, Dewey Ballantine, Google / Search Engines, Jonathan Lee Riches, Law Firm Mergers, Law Schools, LeBoeuf Lamb, Non-Sequiturs, Pro Se Litigants
Non-Sequiturs: 09.26.07
* Crazy pro se lawsuit against Google, seeking $5 billion in damages, touches upon the war on terror and a Burton snowboard. And no, it wasn’t filed by Jonathan Lee Riches. [TechDirt] * A misdemeanor count of cruelty to animals? Guess he wasn’t that good. [Denver Channel] * Law professors get their academic gowns in […]
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Asians, Debra Wong Yang, Pictures, Sexism, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Playing 'Peekaboo' with Debra Wong Yang of Gibson Dunn
Here are some of the comments appended to our recent post about Gibson Dunn’s snazzy new website: “I like the pictures on the main directory. Those are the best part. Except that they don’t have too many women, and one of the women is in a very high school girl peek-a-boo around the brick wall […] -
Affirmative Action, Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Racism, UVA Law
Fall Recruiting Crazy Rumor Watch: Skadden and Minority Students
As we mentioned before, we regularly receive all sorts of apocryphal rumors related to the fall recruiting process. The gossip can be salacious and fun to read — even if turns out to be untrue. Like this rumor, which we heard from a University of Virginia law student quite some time ago: Skadden has not […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Year-End Bonus Watch: San Francisco
In the comments to yesterday’s open thread on Boston bonuses, which we thought was going to be the final bonus thread, a number of you requested a thread for SAN FRANCISCO. We don’t know if bonus policies and expectations in San Francisco / Silicon Valley will differ that much from those in Los Angeles (previously […] -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Media and Journalism, New York Observer, Shameless Plugs, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Why Do Lawyers Love Facebook So Much?
That’s the question we tackle in our latest column for the New York Observer. Here’s an excerpt: Among associates at large law firms, Facebook passed the tipping point sometime over the summer. Since the site opened to the public last year, adults everywhere have been joining—there are 40 million people already on Facebook, and about […] -
Contract Attorneys, Job Searches, Law Schools
Where Do Non-Top-Tier Grads Go? Post-Bar Contract Attorney Work
Yesterday we declared this week to be Non-Top-Tier Law School Week at ATL. We’ll be focusing on the career prospects of graduates of non-elite law schools. As noted, many such grads work in the field of insurance law. Here’s another popular option: working as a contract attorney. We’ll kick off the discussion with a comment […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Admin, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Programming Note: A Pair of SCOTUS Previews
We have to step away for a bit. We’re attending this panel discussion, in which various Supreme Court experts will offer a preview of the upcoming Term. We also plan to attend another SCOTUS preview panel, taking place on Friday morning, focused specifically on the Court’s business-law cases. But fear not; we’ve arranged for content […] -
Lawyer of the Day, Money, Plaintiffs Firms, Politics, State Judges
Lawyer of the Day: Mikal Watts
Even when they’re not getting indicted or pleading guilty, high-profile plaintiffs’ lawyers can still entertain us with their antics. From Walter Olson, over at Overlawyered: Looks as if the legal tactics of one politically ambitious Texas plaintiff’s lawyer may have blown up in his face: “Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mikal Watts of San Antonio once […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Malpractice, Money, Thacher Proffitt & Wood
Cadwalader Hit With $70 Million Malpractice Suit
Good things about Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft: profits per partner of $2.9 million, third behind Wachtell and Cravath. Visits from Cameron Diaz. Bad things about Cadwalader: bed bugs. And $70 million malpractice lawsuits. The indefatigable Anthony Lin has this report, in the New York Law Journal: As the global slowdown in the market for mortgage-backed […] -
Advertising, Religion, Solo Practitioners, Weirdness
Lawyer Advertisement of the Day
It’s not as great as this lawyer ad. Nor does it rise to the level of the Nixon Peabody non-theme song. But this lawyer advertisement, spotted in a Houston area convenience store, is pretty cute. And in a world in which software license agreements have choice-of-law clauses like this one, who’s to say that it […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Defamation, DUI / DWI, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 09.26.07
* SCOTUS to hear some pretty interesting cases next term. [Washington Post; New York Times; CNN] * Apparently, Ross Perot owns the Magna Carta, for now. [CNN] * Jack Bauer arrested for DUI, was allegedly speaking in an urgent, raspy tone. [MSNBC] * Attorney sues Larry Birkhead for defamation. [MSNBC] * Calls for campus paper […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Biglaw, Education / Schools, Federal Government, Money, Skaddenfreude
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Biglaw Raises, Courtesy of Taxpayers?
We’re sorry to report that we haven’t heard serious and credible raise rumors lately. In fact, we’ve heard more gossip about layoffs in recent weeks than about associate pay increases. The rumors of “NYC to 190”, which used to flood our email inbox, have gone the way of Testa Hurwitz. But here is some reason […] -
Blogging, Celebrities, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Michael Vick, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Solo Practitioners, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.25.07
* We know you guys never tire of talking about the tough job market for graduates of non-top-tier law schools. Here is Sam Kamin’s take on Amir Efrati’s WSJ piece. [PrawfsBlawg] * Can’t get a Biglaw gig, perhaps because you’re a Tier 2 (or Tier 3 or Tier 4) grad? Why not hang out your […] -
Gay, Politics, Technology, Ted Olson, Videos, Weirdness
Methinks that Gibson Doth Protest Too Much
It appears that Quinn Emanuel isn’t the only law firm with a snazzy new website. The WSJ Law Blog reports: Okay, we’re not necessarily proud of our law-firm Web site fetish, so forgive us for spilling a few pixels over the spanking-new page the folks at Gibson Dunn put up. [Ed. note: Racy stuff, esp. […] -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Insurance, Job Searches, Money
Where Do Non-Top-Tier Grads Go? Hello, Insurance Law!
As we previously mentioned, this week is Non-Top-Tier Law School Week at ATL. Even our open threads on job hunting will reflect this theme. One graduate of a non-elite law school sent us this suggested topic: Lots of non-top tier law students end up working for insurance companies. The dumb ones end up doing insurance […] -
Hotties, Law Schools, Reality TV, Romance and Dating, Summer Associates, Television, Weddings
Law Students Get No Love from the Bachelor
No wonder the producers of The Bachelor are so eager to have a lawyer as the Bachelor. With their impressive educational pedigrees and generally high incomes — even non-top-tier law grads earn more than the average American — lawyers are a desirable demographic. And relying upon the contestants to keep lawyers watching might not be […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Year-End Bonus Watch: Boston
Our recent open threads, dedicated to discussion of year-end bonuses in different legal markets, haven’t been generating THAT many comments (at least compared to prior open threads). Maybe it’s too early for bonus discussion. Or maybe people just aren’t expecting much this year, given the recent base salary increases. So this may end up being […] -
Biglaw, David Boies, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools
More Tier Two Three Misery: The Boies Schiller Controversy at New York Law School
It’s only Tuesday morning, and we’ve already done several posts on the professional plight of non-elite law school graduates. So we’re declaring this week Non-Top-Tier Law School Week at ATL. If you have a story idea that fits into this theme, please email us. Here’s our latest tale about the plight of “non-T14” law school […]