Too many tipsters to count have alerted us that Thelen appears to have canceled their 2009 summer associate program. People who had scheduled call backs with Thelen were informed this afternoon. As we understand it, this is a firm-wide decision affecting every office. We also believe Thelen has canceled all remaining OCI interviews. A few […]
* Some sage interviewing advice for women that doesn’t involve cleavage, but sadly does involve proper ring placement. [Lexis Hub / BBPL] * Can fighting anti-trust lawyers be sexy? Or are they just the Klingons at a Star Trek Convention? [Antitrust Review] * Nicolas Cage settled his tax troubles for $666K. But he owes the […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
Our continuing coverage of no offers suggests that a 90% offer rate is actually outstanding. Today we have news from two more firms that fell short of 90% but still made offers to the majority of their 2008 summer associates. Our tipsters were right on the money with the information that Blank Rome no offered […]
Last week, we welcomed a new group of 1Ls to the law school fold. As part of the initiation, we asked for tips from readers on how to best tackle the first year of law school. Readers provided lots and lots of good advice. And bad advice. And healthy debate about which outlines to use. […]
Everybody wants to be a part of a protected class. Trust me, it’s great fun (right up until the moment I try to get a cab home in the rain tonight). But unless you are a racial minority, a woman, or have suffered some sort of horrible disability, the joys of having to go through […]
As we previously reported, the fate of Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, one of Connecticut’s most venerable law firms, was up in the air for a while. There were rumors of dissolution, but managing partner William Fish told ATL that the firm was merely in merger talks. It seems that those talks have borne fruit. Over […]
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We’ve done a few posts on screw-ups and rudeness on the part of lawyers conducting on-campus interviews (see here and here). But what about the interviewees? They’re not perfect either — even if some of them think they are. What are some ways that law students have torpedoed their chances of getting callbacks or summer […]
Last week, we reported that Foley & Lardner no offered 43% of their 2008 summer class from their Chicago office. The firm has still not contacted us directly, but multiple tipsters passed along a clarification email sent to all Foley associates late last night. Straight from the horse’s mouth (CEO Ralf Boer): Many of you […]
Steve Jobs did not invent the iPod. Neither did Bibble. No, the inventor of the iPod is Kane Kramer, a British guy who stored three and a half minutes of music on a microchip in 1979. In fairness to Apple, they did not “steal” Kramer’s idea. According to the Daily Mail, Kramer set up a […]
* The DOJ is prepping for its antitrust showdown with Google. It has hired Hogan and Hartson partner (and former legal Mouseketeer) Sandy Litvack for the case. [Information Week] * Berkeley tree-sitters refuse to comply with court ruling and come down for the sake of a new athletic center. Even after getting immunity for throwing […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Over the weekend, the New York Times had an interesting article about New York judges and their robes. It begins: In Britain, judges are wedded to a tradition of elegant attire: scarlet and ermine robes, tippets over the shoulders, black girdles and, of course, the crimped, gray horsehair wig. Minor correction: British judges have dispensed […]
As we’ve previously observed, “we’re not really sure how much there is to say about the MPRE. It’s not a super-difficult test, and it hasn’t exactly achieved the mythical status of the bar exam as a rite of passage for aspiring lawyers.” But it seems, judging from all the emails we’ve received, that some of […]
* The new Dean of Texas Tech school of law will be …? Well it should be Bobby Knight shouldn’t it? [Res Ipsa Blog] * Yale Law Women announced their top ten family friendly firms. [Yale Law School] * Mike Cernovich tries the end this meme that associates should pay their law firms. He uses […]
Earlier today we reported that Squire, Sanders & Dempsey extended offers to 76% of their summer class, but that an untold number of those summers received staff attorney offers. Well, after an initial “no comment” on the staff attorney question, Squire Sanders decided to clarify their statement: The firm made one staff attorney offer. The […]
Lawyer layoffs: they’re not just an American phenomenon. Last month, for example, DLA Piper laid off lawyers in London. Here’s more layoff news from that fair city, from TheLawyer.com: More than half of the UK lawyers at US investment bank Bear Stearns have been axed since the collapsed bank was taken over by JPMorgan. Out of 23 lawyers […]