In the comments to our post about Thanksgiving horror stories, an interesting (if somewhat off-topic) discussion developed. It started off with a law student complaining about having to study for final exams over the holiday, to which another commenter responded: Why bother? After a certain point, who cares about your law school grades? The conventional […]
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s time as a summer associate may come back to haunt her. And not because she stripped down to her undies and took a swan dive into the Hudson. Rather, it’s because she worked for a bunch of Commies. From a piece by Josh Gerstein in the New York Sun: In a […]
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Wow. It looks like we haven’t had associate bonus news to report in almost a week. Our last Associate Bonus Watch post was last Tuesday’s WilmerHale announcement. (We don’t count last Wednesday’s bonus post, since it dealt with bonuses for support staff.) So does this mean it’s all over? Has bonus season, which started early […]
Ladies (and gentlemen — manicures have gone manly, dontcha know): Please see below. A picture is worth a thousand words — and this picture explains, better than any recruiting brochure or Vault write-up, why you want to work at Latham & Watkins. P.S. Why wasn’t this quirky perk wasn’t featured in the recent New York […]
Here’s the latest Job of the Week, courtesy of ATL’s career partner, Lateral Link. Check out their new, redesigned website by clicking here. (Since we didn’t post a Job of the Week last week, due to the abbreviated holiday publication schedule, we’ll give you two this week — one today, and one near the end […]
* Will SCOTUS shoot down D.C.’s gun ban? [CBS Evening News via How Appealing] * Willie Nelson takes a moment between tokes to ask Georgians to be nicer to dogs. [CNN] * Brad Pitt may get sued for screwing over Universal. [One News (New Zealand)] * Former legal counsel sings on Samsung. [Reuters via Yahoo! […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
It’s the Friday after Thanksgiving. The stock market is now closed — and so are we. We’ll be back with new posts on Monday, barring a surprise weekend announcement of “NY to 190.” In the meantime, here’s some fodder for possible discussion, for the unfortunate few who are at work today (or were at work […]
Guess what’s at the top of the New York Times Most Emailed Articles list today? A piece entitled For Lawyers, Perks to Fit a Lifestyle, by Lynnley Browning. We’re pleasantly surprised that an article about law firm perks, a niche topic that we cover obsessively around here, is so popular with readers of a general-interest […]
* Feds use real-time tracking data from cellphones to locate criminal suspects. It’s like Dodgeball for the bad guys. [Washington Post] * Barry Bonds to bulk up… his legal team. [New York Times] * Spotlight on Justice Stevens — and the SCOTUS post-JPS. [Los Angeles Times via How Appealing] * Interview with neo-Nazi triggers German […]
Greetings, ATL readers. Please accept our wishes for a very Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that you aren’t spending much time in front of the computer today. But if you are — for some depressing reason, like work — feel free to bemoan your fate in the comments. Or, on a more cheery note, list what […]
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.
For those of you who followed the South Carolina bar exam controversy, previously discussed here and here, we bring you an update. The South Carolina Supreme Court recently issued a supplemental statement on the matter. According to the Court, the elimination of the Trusts and Estates section from the scoring process had nothing to do […]
In the Senate chamber yesterday, crickets were chirping. From the New York Times: Who says the Senate cannot act quickly? It conducted a full day’s business in less than 30 seconds on Tuesday. Of course, there was no real business to conduct. But fearing that President Bush would again use a Congressional recess to install […]
If a blog post is published on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, does anyone read it? * Apparently the movie “Redacted” has nothing to do with document production. [Likelihood of Success] * And you thought $1,000 an hour was expensive. Try hiring John Ashcroft’s consulting firm. [Newark Star-Ledger] * We believe that Hillary’s experience as First […]
The woes of structured finance lawyers in the wake of the credit crunch have been extensively chronicled in these pages. Now they’ve migrated over to the MSM. One of our favorite young reporters, Lindsay Fortado of Bloomberg News, has this detailed report: New York law firms are cutting associates for the first time since 2001 […]
It’s very quiet around here today. We’re guessing everyone is getting ready for Turkey Day and leaving early (or trying to get actual work done before leaving early, and therefore not visiting ATL). But if you are looking for a way to kill time before your office closes for Thanksgiving, here’s some procrastination material for […]