December 2007
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Admin, Announcements, Baseball, Sports
Open Thread About the Mitchell Report
A major legal story that’s related to sports? Oh noes! We are completely ignorant. But we’ve collected some links about former Senator George Mitchell’s report on steroid use in major legal baseball. Feel free to discuss in the comments. P.S. Would any of you be interested in writing a column for ATL on sports and […] -
Alberto Gonzales, American Bar Association / ABA, Contests, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Media and Journalism, Monica Goodling, Patrick Fitzgerald, Reader Polls, WSJ Law Blog
ATL Lawyer of the Year: Nominations, Please
Part of a blogger’s job description is to shamelessly rip off stuff from the mainstream media. So we’re going to follow in the footsteps of the ABA Journal and the WSJ Law Blog, and name ATL’s first annual Lawyer of the Year. (Of course, it’s not that original an idea to begin with, insofar as […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Job Survey, Money, Reader Polls
Featured Job Survey: How Much Is Your Time Worth?
Attorney billing rates continued to rise in 2007, as just reported by the National Law Journal, based on its annual survey. With this news hook, we bring you the latest ATL / Lateral Link Featured Job Survey, which inquires into billing rates. If you’re interested, check out and respond to the survey, which appears after […]
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Fabulosity, Parties, Weirdness
Saddle Up for the Cadwalader Holiday Party!(And Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Securitization Lawyers)
We previously opined that it would be tough to top last year’s holiday party at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. The Carnivale-themed festivities featured drag queens, dancers covered in silver make-up, and albino boa onstrictors. But if the firm fails to equal that extravaganza, it won’t be for lack of trying. Check out the “Schedule of […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2007, Biglaw, Bonuses, Chadbourne & Parke, Money, Skaddenfreude
Associate Bonus Watch: Chadbourne & Parke
Yesterday at around 5:30 p.m., just as the New York office was getting ready to head off to the firm holiday party, Chadbourne & Parke issued its bonus memorandum. The upshot is that Chadbourne is paying year-end and special bonuses to “eligible” associates in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and Houston (yes, Houston — wow). […] -
Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: The Chief's All Done, Too
Today’s Morning Docket links to this fascinating article by one of our favorite Supreme Court correspondents, Tony Mauro. Mauro writes: Among prominent federal appeals court judges in the 1990s, Barack Obama was known as “the one who got away.” In 1990, Obama had been elected the first African-American president of Harvard Law Review, which made […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.13.07
* Well, Justice Thomas, it’s no place for stubborn, illogical reasoning either, but hey… [South Florida Sun-Sentinel via How Appealing] * Obama’s road not taken; has it made all the difference? [Legal Times] * Car companies’ suit against California tossed. [Jurist] * Bush still doesn’t care about poor kids. [AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution] * Is […]
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Associate Bonus Watch 2007, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Associate Bonus Watch: So What's Up with O'Melveny & Myers?
Maybe you can tell us. We heard that the associates’ meeting for O’Melveny & Myers’s New York office was muddled, with no clear answer or bright-line rules about the firm’s bonus policy. What we have gathered, however, is that the firm did not do a “true match” of year-end and special bonuses. Associates will be […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Layoffs, Reader Polls
Featured Job Survey Results: Got Work?
In yesterday’s Featured Job Survey, brought to you by ATL and Lateral Link, we asked you whether your firms had enough work to go around. The two questions posed were (1) whether business is slow for you and (2) whether you’re afraid of losing your job. Almost 1,300 of you responded to the survey (which […] -
Arnold & Porter, Associate Bonus Watch 2007, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Associate Bonus Watch: Arnold & Porter (New York)
Just in time for its holiday party, which is taking place tonight, the New York office of Arnold & Porter has announced bonuses. It appears to be following the example of other non-New York firms — e.g., Covington & Burling, WilmerHale, and Sidley Austin — and paying its New York associates better than their non-NYC […] -
Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Perk Watch: Latham & Watkins Expands Parental Leave
Earlier today, we alluded to a significant revamping of parental leave policy at Latham & Watkins. Now we’re happy to bring you the details. Under the earlier version of LW’s Parental Care Leave policy, associates were entitled to 12 weeks of maternity leave and up to four weeks of paternity leave. Today the firm announced […] -
Biglaw, Charlene Morisseau, Fabulosity, Harvard Law Review, Lawyer of the Day, Litigatrix, Racism, Rudeness
Lawyer of the Day: Charlene Morisseau
Former DLA Piper associate Charlene Morisseau isn’t just our Lawyer of the Day. This high-powered litigatrix — a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and a former editor of the Harvard Law Review — should be hailed as a heroine by Biglaw associates everywhere. From a most engaging article by Anthony Lin, in […]
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