2008 Year in Review
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2008 Year in Review, Technology
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2008 Year in Review
Top Biglaw Stories: #1 (Business) Layoffs
Biglaw hasn’t exactly experienced Conquest, War, and Famine. But Bonus Reductions, Salary Freezes, and Dissolutions sure make one feel like a seal of whup-ass has been opened up on the legal community. But the number one business story affecting the legal community in 2008 was the rash of Biglaw layoffs. Layoffs were the Shock and […] - Sponsored
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2008 Year in Review, Law School Deans, Law Schools
Top Law School Stories of 2008 (Part 4): Law Schools of the Year
This is the last in our series of Top Law School Stories of 2008. We gave you law students of the year, the most important law school trends, and best law school listservs of 2008. To round out the series, we’re declaring three schools our Law Schools of the Year. This is not a U.S. […]
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2008 Year in Review, Dreier, Layoffs, Pregnancy / Paternity, Shinyung Oh, White-Collar Crime
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #2 and #1 (Gossip)
Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: time to announce Above the Law’s top two stories for 2008, on the gossip front. We’ve also been recapping the top stories on the business side of the fence, but stories about the business of law are available from many other outlets. Juicy law firm gossip is […] -
2008 Year in Review, Dissolution, Salary Freeze
Top Biglaw Stories: #3 & #2 (Business)Firms that Froze & Firms that Melted
Bad things happened in the business of Biglaw in 2008. Some people are still so scarred by the experience that they’d just as soon pretend last year never happened. But the events that transpired in 2008 could have ramifications for the legal industry for a long time. Our third-place story is the Biglaw salary freeze. […] -
2008 Year in Review, Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv
Top Law School Stories of 2008 (Part 3): Listservs
In our first two installments of 2008 law school stories, we looked back at our favorite law school students of the year and important trends. For our third post in the series of four, we’re indulging in one of our favorite topics: law school listservs. When tightly-wound law students use the e-mail list as their […] -
2008 Year in Review, Lesbians, Lindquist & Vennum, Rudeness, Summer Associates
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #4 and #3 (Gossip)
Now that we’re a few days into 2009, we’re going to pick up the pace in our 2008 round-up posts. Some of you are getting impatient. Complained a commenter: “At this rate, we’re going to get to #1s sometime in June.” So, onward. We previously wrote about the #5 gossip story in Biglaw. Today we’re […] -
2008 Year in Review, Comment of the Day, Reader Polls
Associate Life Survey: 2008 Commenter of the Year
In an ATL / Lateral Link survey posted on New Year’s Eve, we announced your nominees for the 2008 ATL Commenter of the Year. Almost 1,800 of you have voted since, and several of the nominees posted their thoughts in comments to the survey post. Nominee Jack Bauer wrote in: It’s good to know that […] - Sponsored
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2008 Year in Review, Caption Contests, Contests, Pictures
2008 in Review: Caption Contests
This year, we launched a new feature on ATL: the Caption Contest. We gave you legally-themed photos and asked you to submit potential captions. We thought it was a great idea — let the readers do our work for us! The contests proved to be widely popular. Wading through hundreds of caption submissions to bring […] -
2008 Year in Review, Associate Bonus Watch 2008
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #4 (Business)
Continuing with our rundown of the top ten Biglaw stories of 2008, we reach our fourth place story on the business end of things: the dramatic reduction of associate bonuses. Bonus news is always a big deal around these parts, and based on the way that the 2008 bonus season started, it looked like there […] -
2008 Year in Review, Comment of the Day, Reader Polls
Associate Life Survey: Commenter of the Year (2008)
As we savor the final hours of 2008, it’s time to look back at some of our favorite people this year: the commenters. In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, it’s time for you to pick the 2008 ATL Commenter of the Year. Your nominees for Commenter of the Year, and select comments explaining why, […] -
2008 Year in Review, Law Schools
Top Law School Stories of 2008 (Part 2): The Hottest New Trends
As 2008 draws to a close, your ATL editors are looking back over some of our favorite stories of the year. On Monday, we named our law students of the year. If you already checked it out, you may want to revisit it — a third student fought his way onto the list, per popular […] -
2008 Year in Review
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #5 (Gossip)
This morning, as part of our 2008 in Review series, we started to list the top 10 Biglaw stories of 2008. We kicked things off with the #5 story on the business side of the ledger: the trend of law firms granting more generous parental leave. Now, on to the fun stuff: the year’s top […]
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2008 Year in Review, Kids, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity
Top Biglaw Stories of 2008: #5 (Business)
We’re doing a series of “2008 in Review” posts here at ATL. We’ve previously declared a Lawyer of the Year, as well as two three Law Students of the Year. We will now announce what we view as the year’s ten biggest stories in law-firm land. We’ve divided them into two groups: the top five […]