January 2008
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Job Survey
Featured Job Survey: How Happy Were Your Holidays?
Last month we asked you which holidays you worked on, or expected to work on, during 2007. About 10% of you reported that you expected to work on Christmas, and roughly 22% expected to work on New Year’s. In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, let’s find out if you were overly optimistic, pleasantly surprised, […] -
Biglaw, Food
Health Inspection Scores of NYC Law Firm Cafeterias: How Does Your Firm Stack Up?(And Open Thread About Firm Cafeterias More Generally)
We have a lunch meeting today, so we’re going to be offline for a while. We’ll leave you with a food-related post to chew over while we’re gone. Hopefully it won’t cause you to lose your appetite. Over at Keeping Up With Jonas, Jonas Karp has filed a great investigative report: a look at how […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Adam Key, American Bar Association / ABA, Free Speech, Law Schools, Regent University School of Law
An Update on Our Second Favorite Regent Law Student / Grad
One of our favorite law students in America, Adam Key, is in the news once again. As you may recall, Key is a 2L at Regent Law School, the private, Christian law school in Virginia, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. Key is currently at war with the Regent administration over free speech issues. The university […]
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Attorney Misconduct, Benchslaps, Document Review, Lawyer of the Day, Legal Ethics, Qualcomm, Screw-Ups
Lawyers of the Day: An Embarrassment of Riches
Or a richness of embarrassment. Today we’re going to name not one, but seven Lawyers of the Day. Our first Lawyer of the Day is Mark Mersel (formerly of Morrison & Foerster, now at Bryan Cave). In case you missed the shout-out in Morning Docket, here’s a bit more, from the WSJ Law Blog: It’s […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.08.08
* Ouch. Morrision & Foerster is one minute late, costs client one million dollars. [WSJ Law Blog] * The Sneaky Chef sues Mrs. Jessica Seinfeld, author of “Deceptively Delicious,” claiming not-so-delicious plagiarism — and defamation, to boot. [New York Times; AP] * Opponents of execution by lethal injection have a bad day at the Supreme […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.07.08
* Wow, this is wild. Mark Lanier (at right), the prominent plaintiffs’ lawyer leading the Vioxx charge against Merck, gets down and dirty in blog comments (at Overlawyered and elsewhere). [Overlawyered; WSJ Law Blog] * Lawyer of the Day? Chicago attorney charged with keying a Marine’s car says he merely “rub[bed] past it.” [Snopes.com] * […] -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Job Searches, Summer Associates
The Summer Associate Recruiting Sweepstakes: Open Thread on Winners and Losers
The recruiting season for 2Ls — scooped up by law firms eager to hire them as summer associates, fatten them up at fancy lunches, and get them addicted to a luxury lifestyle — is pretty much over. So now is a good time to take stock of who fared well (and who didn’t). From a […] -
Barack Obama, Book Deals, Books, Fabulosity, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Videos, You Go Girl
The Audacity of Hope Barack Obama's Book Deal
We’re tired of the national lovefest for Barack Obama that is currently underway. It seems that Senator Obama, barely halfway through his first term in the U.S. Senate, can do no wrong — and the divalicious Hillary Clinton, the fabulous former first lady who also has a complete (and highly successful) Senate term under the […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Allen & Overy, Associate Bonus Watch 2007, Biglaw, Bonuses, Kramer Levin, Money, Skaddenfreude, Thacher Proffitt & Wood
Associate Bonus Watch: Monday Round-Up(Plus a Hint of a Base Salary Increase?)
Bonus season is still with us, although it’s winding down. Announcements continue to trickle in, but at a reduced pace. Going forward, we will combine bonus info into omnibus posts that will go up periodically, depending on whether we have a critical mass of tips. Here is today’s compilation of associate bonus news — plus […] -
Admin, Announcements, Blogging, Contests, Shameless Plugs
Congratulations to the Blawg 100 Readers Choice Winners
Belated congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Blawg 100 readers’ choice contest, sponsored by the ABA Journal, which were announced late last week. More than 25,000 votes were cast in 12 categories. We previously wrote about the extremely close race between Overlawyered and Quizlaw, duking it out in the Generally Speaking category. Congrats to […] -
Baseball, Drugs, Sports
Roger Clemens Injects A Defamation Suit Into the Mix
Thanks to the many readers who have alerted us to the lawsuit that Roger Clemens just filed against his ex-trainer. From the AP: Roger Clemens beat Brian McNamee to court, filing a defamation suit against the former trainer who claimed to have injected him with performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens filed the suit Sunday night in Harris […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.07.08
* Tomorrow is showtime for the presidential candidates in New Hampshire. [Washington Post; AP] * Speaking of the 2008 elections, it’s showtime for voter ID laws in the Supreme Court. And there appears to be an African-American female Republican living in Indiana. [New York Times] * Also in the SCOTUS this week: lethal injection. [Chicago […]
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Biglaw, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Money, Pro Bono, Skaddenfreude, Wall Street
Law and Medicine: Not As Cool as They Used To Be?
That’s the basic question posed by this interesting piece, currently the most emailed article on the New York Times website. After describing some of the sufferings of lawyers and doctors today, Alex Williams writes: [I]n the days when a successful career was built on a number of tacitly recognized pillars — outsize pay, long-term security, […]
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Attorney Misconduct, Celebrities, Deaths, Hillary Clinton, Hotties, Murder, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, White-Collar Crime
Non-Sequiturs: 01.04.07
* Hot lawyers make more money. And we needed a study to tell us this? [Legal Blog Watch via ABA Journal; WSJ Law Blog] * A truly insane murder case. And yes, Debra Opri — who has represented Michael Jackson and Larry Birkhead, among other boldface names — is on the scene. [DealBreaker; HedgeFund.net] * […] -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Job Survey, Money, Skaddenfreude
Featured Job Survey Results: Bonuses (Boston)
We have received over 1,300 responses to our ATL / Lateral Link survey on bonuses (accessible here). So far, we’ve told you about New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles (take the survey on that page to see the results), and San Francisco / Silicon Valley. Today’s new results are from Boston. Because a number of […] -
Advertising, Lawsuit of the Day, Sex, Sex Scandals, Tort Reform, Videos
Lawsuit of the Day: Model Files Suit Over Super-Sexy Spot(No, Not That Spot. Jeez. You're Such a Sicko.)
We weren’t surprised to see this case get a shout-out on I Am Lawsuit Abuse. From the AP: A model who says she has worked hard to maintain a wholesome image has filed a $5 million lawsuit complaining that a jewelry company’s video advertisement in which she writhes and moans looks pornographic. The commercial, seen […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2007, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Associate Bonus Watch: A Few More Updates
The holiday season is pretty much over, and bonus season kinda is, too. But it’s not completely over, so we’ll still bring you occasional updates on news that comes across our desk. If you have information to share, please email us (subject line: “Associate Bonus Watch”). While placing info in the comments is helpful, comments […] -
Benchslaps, Health Care / Medicine, Insurance, Judge of the Day, Rudeness, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Vicious Infighting
Judges of the Day: Aaron Bowden and Donald Moran
Today we bring you not one, but two Judges of the Day. We can’t decide who is more deserving of the honor. From the Florida Times-Union: Twelve days before Christmas, Circuit Judge Aaron Bowden fired his 17-year judicial assistant, who had been on leave since August with cancer. The Jacksonville judge said he feared her […] -
Advertising, Job of the Week, Job Searches
Job of the Week
If you’re not already a member of Lateral Link, you can sign up through their website. Membership, which is free and confidential, allows you to learn about new legal opportunities as they become available. Successfully placed candidates receive a $10,000 placement bonus. Position: Executive Compensation Attorney Location: New York Position Description: Top firm seeks a […] -
Family Law, Pets, Weirdness
Montana Lawyers Do Things Differently
Remember this attorney, who announced the dissolution of his law partnership in most unorthodox fashion? We sure do (and so does “Tim from Anaconda”). Our friends out west are idiosyncratic when it comes to office decor, too. From a piece by Debra Cassens Weiss for the ABA Journal: A Montana lawyer said his decision to […]