March 2008

A suggestion for a discussion topic, from the ATL mailbag: I searched through the archives for a thread on this, but couldn’t find anything. As a second year law student headed to NYC Biglaw after graduation, I’m already assuming that I will work for the firm I start with for no more than three or […]

We’ll be posting an update on the Dechert situation sometime soon. We’ve received some interesting tips that we’d like to pass along. In the meantime, we have some news about Thacher Proffitt & Wood. The firm’s official position is that they haven’t laid off anyone; they’ve simply had lots of voluntary departures, some spurred by […]

As we mentioned in passing on Friday, we’ve been mysteriously banned from Facebook, the popular social networking website. Our account was disabled without notice or explanation. We have not been informed of the allegations against us that led to the suspension of our account, nor have we been given the opportunity to confront our accusers. […]

We received about 400 responses to last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on judicial clerk hiring. Roughly 140 of these responses were from current judicial clerks. Although comments in last week’s post suggest a weakening market for judicial clerk hiring, the actual survey results were mixed. A couple dozen respondents claimed that their firms […]