September 2007
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Bad Ideas, Boutique Law Firms, Email Scandals, Law Firm Names, Plaintiffs Firms, Sex, Sex Scandals, Vicious Infighting
Best Reason for a Law Firm Name Change Ever
A fantastic and hilarious email, announcing a name change for a Montana law firm, has been making the rounds. We’d like to reprint it here, but we’ll refrain for now. Instead, read the email and commentary on it here and here. We have no reason to question the authenticity of the email (which apparently went […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Kathleen Sullivan
it looks like john quinn reads this blog
Here’s a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Quinn Emanuel’s innovative approach to callback interviews: From: “John Quinn”To: “Attorneys”Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:46:53 -0700Subject: reproduced below is an email which we sent yesterday to chicago students who received call backs. it describes an experiment we are going to try this year with the call backs […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Gay, Gay Marriage, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 9.2.07 and 9.9.07: Weiner Kings
That’s right — this is a combined edition of LEWW. Weep with joy, wedding-watchers! Before we serve up this double shot, a request for input. In response to prompting from readers, when we’ve chosen the week’s top three couples lately, we’ve been giving a big edge to lawyer-lawyer couples. The result is that we’ve often […]
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Alberto Gonzales, Department of Justice, Federal Government, George J. Terwilliger III, Orrin Hatch, Senate Judiciary Committee, Ted Olson, William Wilkins
Who Will Be the Next AG? Maybe Not Ted Olson
Back on Tuesday, it was widely rumored that an attorney general nomination announcement was imminent — and that the nominee was going to be former Solicitor General Ted Olson (pictured at right, at his wedding last year). But we had our doubts. We opined that Olson, confirmed as SG by a narrow 51-47 margin, might […] -
Advertising, Airplanes / Aviation, Job of the Week, Job Searches, Shameless Plugs
Job of the Week
Here’s the latest Job of the Week from Lateral Link, ATL’s career partner: Company: Eclipse Aviation Title: Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Description: This Albuquerque, NM-based company, which makes personal passenger planes, seeks a General Counsel to head overall management of the legal and regulatory functions within the Company and to oversee all […] -
Celebrities, Fabulosity, Movies, Weirdness
Breaking: Cameron Diaz at Cadwalader!
Are you in the New York office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft? If so, then please rush up to the 39th floor — and take your camera phone! Cameron Diaz is on the 39th floor of Cadwalader’s New York office, using a conference room for some movie being made on South End Ave. Don’t know […] -
Clerkships, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Money, Skaddenfreude
Law Clerk Salaries and Benefits: What's Going On?
Since we’re smack dab in the middle of clerkship application season, let’s turn the spotlight to clerkly compensation and benefits. We hear that some changes may be in the works. From a tipster: [H]ave you heard anything about progress on a proposal to end/limit/change the salary “matching” program for federal clerks with private sector experience? […] -
Books, Charlie Savage, Jan Crawford Greenburg, Linda Greenhouse, Media and Journalism, Neal Katyal, Parties, Pictures, Politics, Tony Mauro
'Takeover' by Charlie Savage: A Fabulous Book Party
“Dear Jim: Thanks for the great job you do pushing the mail cart around the office. You truly are a special person!” [Charlie Savage signs a copy of his book for Aaron Zitner, politics editor for the Los Angeles Times.] Earlier this week, we attended a delightful book party for Takeover: The Return of the […] - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.13.07
* DOJ decides against filing hate crime charges in torture prosecution. [MSNBC] * Another day, another perjury. [Newsweek] * Fred Thompson’s legal work at Arent Fox scrutinized. [MSNBC] * Criminal trial begins for leader of polygamist FLDS sect. [CNN] * Harvard nursing mother sues med boards over exam breaks. [New York Times]
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Erwin Chemerinsky, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Politics, Vicious Infighting
Chemerinskygate: Dean for a Day?
Who knew that such a little man could generate such big controversy? In a nutshell (see the links collected below for more): Erwin Chemerinsky, the brilliant but controversial professor of constitutional law at Duke, accepted an offer to serve as inaugural dean of UC Irvine’s new law school. But then Professor Chemerinsky’s deanship was yanked […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Kathleen Sullivan
Fall Recruiting: This Is How You Do It
The fall recruiting process. Some firms mess things up; some firms live it up. We’re hearing through the grapevine that this year, for students at schools with late on-campus interview weeks, Quinn Emanuel isn’t doing the whole callbacks-at-their-offices thing. Instead, they’re inviting the students they like in the on-campus interviews on a weekend trip at […] -
Biglaw, Money, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Technology, Wall Street
Biglaw Perk Watch: Equity Compensation Schemes
Our somewhat flagging coverage of the perks or fringe benefits of law firm life is getting reinvigorated, thanks to your suggestions. If you have an idea for a perk that merits discussion, please review our prior coverage (scroll down), to make sure we haven’t covered it already. If we haven’t, then please send your idea […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Media and Journalism, New York Observer, Shameless Plugs
Who Is This Fall's 'It' Firm?
We have to step away for a bit. But we’ll leave you with some food for thought (and argument): a piece we just wrote for the New York Observer, timed to coincide with fall interview season, about New York law firms. Here’s a brief excerpt: “[J]ust as certain sleeve cuts are all the rage at […]
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Benchslaps, Herman Thomas, Music, Perverts, Prisons, Sentencing Law, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Violence
A Song Dedication to Judge Herman Thomas: Spank Me
Remember Judge Herman Thomas, the Alabama state court judge who allegedly spanked a number of prisoners? Now there’s a theme song for the scandal, entitled “Spank Me.” Check it out here. The creator and artist, Jolene Roxbury, is a former paralegal who decided several years ago that comedy was her true calling. You can learn […] -
Announcements, Clerkships, Deaths, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Health Care / Medicine
ATL Public Service Announcement: Avoid the David W. Dyer Federal Courthouse
As noted yesterday, we’re smack in the middle of clerkship hiring season. Perhaps some of you are applying to judges based in Miami. Clerking in a tropical paradise — what’s not to like? Possibly deadly toxic mold, that’s what. From an article by Julie Kay in the Daily Business Review (via SDFLA Blog): Two studies […] -
Advertising, Death Penalty, Fat People, Kids, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.07
* Mandated calorie watching is struck down. [AP; New York Times] * Mortgage lenders’ ads may violate FCC FTC rules. [MSNBC] * Former Philippine prez gets 40-year prison sentence. [New York Times] * China agrees to prohibit lead paint in children’s toys… [AP via MSNBC] * Tennessee uses the chair for first time since 1960. […]
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Glenn Reynolds, Hillary Clinton, Law Professors, Money, Politics
Why Don't Yale Law Faculty Like Hillary?
Check out this interesting data about the campaign contributions of Yale faculty and staff, over at Instapundit. It prompted Glenn Reynolds to ask: “Why don’t the Yale Law faculty like Hillary?” Good question. And here’s another: Even if the Yale Law faculty don’t like this distinguished YLS alumna, why don’t they at least send their […] -
Books, Jeffrey Toobin, Non-Sequiturs, Real Estate, Social Networking Websites, YouTube
Non-Sequiturs: 09.11.07
* More lawyers — no, not Nixon Peabody — have a bone to pick with YouTube. [Michael Geist] * UK study: “Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day.” [BBC via Dealbreaker] * Speaking of Facebook, here’s some advice that’s so obvious, yet so frequently ignored: […] -
Bad Ideas, Craigslist, Crime, Lesbians, Romance and Dating, Technology
If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Is
Several readers drew our attention to this fascinating article from our local free weekly, the Washington City Paper: Wanted: Gullible LawyersBy Arin Greenwood I was hired over e-mail. A boss I never met promised me $14,000 a month. How could I fall for that? Two tipsters have done an especially good job teeing it up, […] -
Biglaw, Food, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Rewards for Big Billers
Our series on the perks or fringe benefits of large law firm life has become somewhat sporadic, partly because we’ve covered so many of the biggies. To review our past posts, click here, and scroll down. Today’s perk: prizes for big billers. If you really kill yourself during a particular month, racking up 250 or […]