On Wednesday, Duke responded to Andrew Giuliani’s lawsuit. Duke claims that they were well within their rights to kick Giuliani off the school’s golf team. Duke alleges that Giuliani threw an apple in another teammate’s face, injured a teammate, and was verbally abusive to one of the coaches. Sounds about right. You can’t believe everything […]
Does your firm run a corporate blog? If so, would you post comments to it? Employers are struggling with the question of what to do about employee blogs, and their responses prove just how old and out of touch corporate leaders can be. In the National Law Journal, one attorney tries to define blogging in […]
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When it comes to the television bench, the great state of Florida seems to be the feeder court. See the list of Floridian judges turned TV judges at the end of this post. But Florida doesn’t have a monopoly on television jurists. From the Fulton County Daily Report: Writing that “God has called me to […]
The problem with being a government lawyer is that you don’t have a lot of control over which “government” you are working for. Even if you have a non-partisan, non-patronage position, anytime a new administration takes power there is the possibility of turmoil. Like the swallows of Capistrano, now is the season we expect public […]
* Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will appear together today at the September 11 memorial service in New York City. [Time] * Another scandal from the employees at the Interior Department. Sex, cocaine, and gifts from energy companies. [Washington Post] * Speaking of sex scandals, toilet stall foot tapper Larry Craig wants to withdraw […]
The top 25 California law firms are staying in lockstep with regard to associate pay: $160K for first years, $210K for fourth years, $265K for seventh years. According to The Recorder (via Law.com), only Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold paid below the market rate. They pay $130K to first years and only go to $197K […]
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* Picking up on the law professors for Obama issue, Stephen Bainbridge produces evidence that the link between higher education and party affiliation actually favors the Republican party. The link between readers of “My Pet Goat” and party affiliation also favors the Republican party. [Stephen Bainbridge.com] * Pepper Hamilton may have no offered 26% of […]
The University of Pennsylvania Law School announced they will begin offering a J.D./M.B.A. program that can be completed in three years. In order to make it work, Penn will concede a painfully obvious point: one year of law school is really all anybody needs. According to their press release: Students in the new program will […]
Yesterday we solicited stories from you about on-campus interview bloopers — this time by the student interviewees, rather than their law firm interrogators. We received an embarrassment of riches — or riches of embarrassment — in response. In terms of favorite stories, it seems the people’s choice was comment 177. Do a ctrl-F on the […]
It’s been a tough week for Camp Obama. We’ve learned that it is not cool to compare Sarah Palin to a pig, but empowering to compare her to a pit bull. But this news should brighten their day, and prove everybody’s suspicions about liberal bias at the nation’s top law schools. According to the Huffington […]
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Now that the fall recruiting season is underway,OCI tips, horror stories, and heartbreaks are getting just a wee bit of attention. But while our law student readers are prepping for their interviews, what are the associates up to? In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we ponder whether the associates you meet in your callbacks […]
Full disclosure: we do not know exactly what is going on over at Foley & Lardner. But we are hearing a lot of chatter. By way of a quick summary: we posted information that Foley offered only 43% of their summers out the Chicago office. Then Foley issued a firm wide email saying that they […]
The folks across the pond were fodder for posts yesterday on judicial fashion and invention of the Ipod. We return to news from the Brits with our lawyer of the day: Peter Fitzpatrick, a former partner at Muirhead Buchanan in Stirling, England. Like disgraced Legal Aid attorney Peter Barta, Fitzpatrick wanted to catch a looksie […]
We received a lot of reports about Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Most of them contained a surprising tidbit: We were all told that we did really well and that “but for the economy,” we all would have received offers. When the no-offer phone calls came, we were told we had great reviews […]
[Ed. note: Sorry for the delay. We were experiencing some technical difficulties but now everything is under control. Wait, … what? Even Nedry knew enough to not mess with the raptor fences. Dr. Arnold? Ahhhhhhh.] * The investment bank Lehman Brothers fights to survive. [Washington Post] * SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas says the Constitution is […]