Musical Chairs: Slate Publisher to Skadden Arps
(And a shout-out to Slate's new law blog.)
At ATL, we have a special place in our heart for the intersection of law and media. Thus, we are moved to report on the publisher of Slate, Cliff Sloan, leaving the media world to become a partner at Skadden Arps. From The Washington Post:
Slate, the daily online magazine owned by The Washington Post Co., said publisher Cliff Sloan will leave to become a partner in a law firm. John Alderman, vice president of business development at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, or WPNI, will replace Sloan on April 1, the company said. Sloan will join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
The double Harvard grad is a member of the Elect (Stevens / OT 1985). Someone needs to update his Wikipedia page with the new gig.
There's no announcement on the Skadden site yet, so we don't know what his focus area will be. Maybe he'll work to improve the Skadden website. The bright red background hurts our eyes!
As for Slate, they've just launched Convictions, a new legal blog, with oodles of boldface legal names as contributors. We'd list some of the writers, but that would risk omitting others, and almost all of them are bigwigs of the bar or blogosphere. So just check the site out for yourself, by clicking here.
Slate Publisher to Leave for Law Firm [The Washington Post]
Slate Announces New Publisher [Business Wire]
Convictions [Slate]
(13) Comments
From publishing a magazine to billing 2200 hours a year pouring over documents at some law firm? Why would he do that?
He's going in as a partner. I don't think he'll be "pouring" over documents -- unless it's coffee, that he's pouring over crappy drafts given to him by associates.
1:37--that's the first time I've laughed out loud today. Thanks.
He is a close friend of Spitzer back from their Harvard Law days working with Dershowitz. The timing seems a little odd.
Most puzzling legal move since Luttig left the Fourth Circuit to work for Boeing. You've got to figure he was making more money as publisher of Slate than the 2.5 mill or so he's going to make at Skadden. I wonder what he's going to be doing at Skadden. No way it will be as much fun as Slate.
2:38--
How much do you think magazine publishers make?
He's a publisher, which is a business-side media job. He is not the owner of Slate (which is part of the publicly traded Washington Post Co.).
This move is probably going to be a big pay INCREASE for Sloan, from six figures to seven figures.
2:38 - it was not puzzling that Luttig took the Boeing gig. He's basically got a private jet now. And he obviously saw the writing on the wall that he wasn't going to make the Court.
Did Kas just use the royal we?
Just move right on in.. make yourself comfortable.
He's in the IP practice.
3:41 -- I think that was 2:38's point :)
So thats why Slate sucked last week. They featured the same article for like five days straight.
Here's a nice photo of Eliot Spitzer, Jim Cramer of CNBC, and Cliff Sloan back in their Harvard Law School days:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/10/12/nyregion/190_spitzer_2.jpg
Spitzer is on top, Cramer is to the left, and Sloan is to the right. Here's the NY Times article that goes along with the photo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/12/nyregion/12spitzer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin