August 2008
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 08.28.08
* Barack Obama and Joe Biden accept the love of the Democratic Party. [Washington Post] * Sobering news for the lovefest: “A potential conflict of interest involving Biden and one of the nation’s biggest asbestos litigation law firms.” [Politico] * Bad Citibank! It owes 53,000 credit card customers $14 million for stealing their positive balances. […]
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Chadbourne & Parke, Howrey LLP, Patton Boggs, Thacher Proffitt & Wood, Vault 100 open threads - 2009
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 71-80 (2009)
The Vault 100 march continues! In this series of open threads, we list the firms, and you all discuss their upsides and downsides. We’ll be wrapping this puppy up this week. Here are the next ten (with prestige scores in parentheses): 71. Nixon Peabody LLP (5.218) 72. Hunton & Williams LLP (5.208) 73. Perkins Coie […] - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.27.08
* DJ Vlad is suing Rick Ross for an alleged beatdown administered by Ross and four other … creative consultants. You can almost hear DJ “punk-a$$” Vlad’s record label screaming “Noooooooooo.” [MTV News] * The WSJ’s Ashby Jones wonders if summer programs — and the hiring timetable they’re tied to — are to blame for […]
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D.C. Circuit, Harvard, Hogan & Hartson, Monica Goodling, Stephen Williams, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.24: Herb-al Essence
As we expected, celebrity professors Cass Sunstein and Samatha Power were the winners of last week’s July Couple of the Month voting, running away with over 60 percent of the vote. Congratulations to this nerdy-hot duo! This week’s set of contestants might be the strongest we’ve seen this season. Their write-ups feature five Harvard degrees, […] -
Biglaw, Outsourcing
Extinction Level Event: Outsourcing
Remember when “outsourcing” was something that only blue collar workers with “some” high school education had to worry about? Well, those days are long gone, and now the global economy is officially poised to raid Biglaw jobs. In an opinion (PDF) made public on Tuesday, the ABA declared shipping legal work overseas to be ethically […] -
Gay, Hotties, Reality TV, Survivor
Another Law Firm 'Survivor': Meet Charlie Herschel
Things are looking good these days for Weil, Gotshal & Manges. For the sixth year in a row, it made the top 10 of the Vault 100. It took fourth place in the American Lawyer’s A-List rankings, and turned in a strong showing in the magazine’s midlevel associate survey (#11 out of 80+ New York […] -
Job Survey, Summer Associates
Associate Life Survey: Summer Love... Or Lack Thereof
We have some bad news for this year’s summer associates. Based on Monday’s survey, brought to you by ATL and Lateral Link, about one in four attorneys at your firm didn’t like you. The number of practicing attorneys who said “Summer associates, hate ’em” narrowly beat the number of practicing attorneys who said “Summer associates, […] -
Heller Ehrman, Holland & Knight, Sonnenschein, Vault 100 open threads - 2009
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 61-70 (2009)
Judging from our traffic, readers are enjoying this rundown of the Vault 100. We do aim to please here at ATL. We appreciate those who have offered insights about firms in the comments. Moving on to the next group (with prestige scores in parentheses): 61. Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP (5.608) 62. Sonnenschein Nath & […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Pro Bono
Wiley Rein Bows To Midlevel/Am Law Concerns
Yesterday, we criticized law schools for slavishly following the dictates of U.S. News and World Report. But a law firm responding to associate concerns is a different matter entirely. A tipster informs us that Wiley Rein associates were told that up to 50 pro-bono hours would be credited towards meeting billable targets. Firm Chairman Richard […] -
Golf, Sports
Golf: The Language of the Elite
Aside from occasional flurries of Golden Tee dominance, I rarely watch golf unless Tiger Woods is prominently involved. This makes me just like everybody else, a fact that the L.P.G.A has apparently noticed. After unsuccessful attempts to woo Tiger into a sex-change operation, the L.P.G.A has a new marketing strategy: English-speaking golfers! Starting in 2009, […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.27.08
* Those Bratz got a spanking, but not as severe a spanking as Mattel hoped. The jury awarded Mattel $100 million, rather than the $1 billion Quinn Emanuel’s John Quinn had requested. [CNN] * U.S. District Judge John D. Bates rules Harriet Miers must testify before Congress. The big moment could come as early as […]
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Bankruptcy, Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: Mayer Loses Bankruptcy Chief to Orrick
With the U.S. economy in the toilet, third tier or otherwise, law firms are building up their bankruptcy practices. They’re eagerly scooping up lateral associates in the field — and partners, too. From the American Lawyer: A rough 18 months for Mayer Brown got a little worse on Monday, when San Francisco’s Orrick, Herrington & […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.26.08
* Every time a law blogger gets sued subpoenaed, our sphincters tighten up just a little bit more. [Legal Blog Watch] * Students at Delaware’s Widener Law School hoping to take Con Law with Biden may be sorely disappointed. [WSJ Law Blog] * And here I thought it was impossible to express dislike for Clarence […]
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Brett Kavanaugh, D.C. Circuit, Sarbanes-Oxley / Sarbox / SOX, Wall Street
The Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Board: Not Long For This World?
The constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, enacted as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, was recently upheld — decision available here (PDF) — by a divided panel of the D.C. Circuit. But those who challenged the Board’s legitimacy are fighting on. The appellants will either seek rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit […] -
Crime, Drinking, Kids, Parties, Police
Lawsuit of the Day: Failure to Help Drunk Teenager = Homicide?
Here’s a fact pattern: teen steals liquor, teen gets hammered, adult is called to help, adult drives teen home, teen dies, adult gets charged with… negligent homicide? That’s the reality facing Candice Collard. The 24-year-old woman is being charged with homicide in Utah for failing to help Jess “Micade” Horrocks, 14, who died of alcohol […] -
Start Dates, Summer Associates, WolfBlock
Nationwide Start Date Watch: WolfBlock
We bring you more word of postponed start dates for incoming associates. The latest comes from the Philly firm of WolfBlock, as first reported in the Philadelphia Business Journal: In response to the economic slowdown, Wolf Block has delayed the start date of its entry-level lawyers for two months. The firm said all but one […] -
Barack Obama, Police, Politics, Violence
Drunken Hicks Pose No Credible Threat
Authorities are investigating whether men threatened to kill Senator Barack Obama, or if they were just trying to get a date with Jodie Foster. Either way, U.S. Attorney Troy Eid is certain that the potentially meth-addled gunmen posed no credible threat to Obama or the Democratic National Convention. We have explored the colossal idiocy of […] -
Bad Ideas, Feminism, Gender, Litigators, Litigatrix, Media and Journalism
Naming a magazine for female attorneys: Chill out, Trial Mama?
The makers of KNOW: The Magazine for Paralegals have another legal publication in the works. A tipster forwarded us an e-mail about a “new magazine for women professionals in litigation.” Imagining the love child of Glamour and the American Lawyer, we expected to see planned articles on hot courtroom studs and legal fashion faux pas. […] -
Law Schools, Media and Journalism, U.S. News
The Rankings Versus The Cash
Law school deans continue to show the intellectual backbone of phytoplankton when faced with the big fish over at U.S. News & World Report. As the Wall Street Journal reported this morning (subscription), U.S. News is considering changing their law school rankings formula, and the wailing has already begun. According to the report, U.S. News […] -
Fashion
A Sartorial Quandry: What Type of T-Shirt?
This post is directed primarily at our male readers. But female readers with opinions about men’s fashion are also welcome to chime in. To read the question presented, see this post by Bess Levin, over at our sister site, Dealbreaker. For one style columnist’s take on the issue, see here (but it’s a bit of […]