IPhone isn't ready. No cut and paste option; no inbox folder access; no removable battery. Love it as a phone, but not a work tool.

wow. the "this ship be sinking" guy/gal is dominating

wait, why would madoff plead guilty when it's going to be essentially a life sentence anyway? why not use some of his "wife's" money and hire a bigshot defense attorney and at least try to get off?

Madoff has never really wanted to get away with this - not like he could. The whole thing started with him confessing, since the SEC is incompetent.

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If NYC cut starting salaries back to $125, I predict many incoming associates with gazillion dollar leases will killself.

about time people with average IQ's started getting paid less...

I'm all for castration. Get freaky with the funk, you lose your damn junk.

Amen.

Yes Michael Ray Richardson's meme is dominating through his dedicated posting - let it be a lesson to the rest of you about the power of HARD WORK !

Just because I'm working on my back, doesn't mean it's not HARD!

Kill all the logic games. All the time I was in law school and have been an attorney I have never had to solve a logic game.

But then again, it's perfectly logical to evaluate potential attorneys based on a skill they will never use. Sounds just like law school.

Oh noez...poor snot-nosed know-nothing firsties will have to choke down PB&J's and Folger's instant coffee because they are only going to make low 6-figures to start....oh noez!!!!!!!!!

One little (big law?) firm that never paid 160 as its standard rate in its main offices cuts back salaries and the ship is sinking?

I mean, the ship still might sink, but that's a bit sensationalist...

10 = iq/bad genetics pwn3d.

"In such a down market, law firms should not fear that the cuts will hurt future recruiting, said David Van Zandt, dean of Northwestern University Law School."

Great! That means that law schools will be concurrently lowering tuition, right? Right?

11 - You do know that if "snot-nosed know-nothing firsties" salaries are cut, then eventually, so will everyone's salaries, right? Right?

Do you assholes really not remember being law students? First years?

We should castrate anyone who votes liberal. Of course, most libs don't have any balls anyway.

7 - nice comment, but you need a schtick (with a picture and everything) to increase effectiveness

KASH/ELIE,
Big news over at Amlaw. CRAVATH IS PUSHING BACK START DATES.

http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2009/03/cravath-joins-delayed-start-date-party.html

'In such a down market, law firms should not fear that the cuts will hurt future recruiting, said David Van Zandt, dean of Northwestern University Law School.

"Everybody can point to the external environment and see that everybody's in the same boat," he said."

Is he going to lobby to cut law school tuition too?

15: What do you think will follow a pay freeze? Do you really think firms this year or next are going to increase salaries? Thousands of highly qualified attorneys are roaming the streets looking for a job, any job, at any price. Wake the F up.

The replacement LSAT should test (1) document review and (2) the ability to be an asshole on the phone.

I'm not sure what those other 24 "factors" could possibly be.

I agree that the LSAT should be dumped. The only thing that determines whether or not you'll be a good lawyer is whether or not you went to a T5 school.

10 = unable to understand that the LSAT is an aptitude test, not a skills test. You go to law school in order to learn the skills.

4,

I wonder if his family gets to keep more of the money if he agrees to being "Bruno the murdering male escort's" bitch for the rest of his life.

20 - I challenge the assertion that "thousands of highly qualified attorneys are roaming the streets looking for a job." About 3,000 attorneys have been fired so far (that we know of). I would think a good chunk of those are people who were underperforming anyway, and now was just a good time to let them go. Maybe 1/3 max were cut purely for economic reasons. There is a lot of dead weight in law firms.

25=douche. no more, no less.

25 - As a first-year who was laid-off, I hardly would consider myself underperforming. Shit...its hard to evaluate someone you layoff within three months of hiring them. Bastards.

21 = EPIC WIN!!

23, the only skills I learned in lawschool were spotting issues in pretentinsly bizarre fact patterns, e.g., about Martha Stewart seducing and killing a mentally disabled person, applying a marxist analysis to equal protection case law, and to arrive early at school events with an open bar. None of these skills are serving me well, despite being earned at a shocking financial price.

"A law professor and a psychology professor at Berkeley are proposing a test to replace the LSAT. Their test seeks to measure 26 lawyerly 'effectiveness factors' with a series of hypothetical situations in order to circumvent the will of the people as expressed by Prop 209 and support their [illegal] social engineering agenda."

-suggested correction

29, if you learned how to seduce Martha Stewart, that might serve you well in practice.

They're malleable, and you know that's what I like really, you know. I don't like people who come here: 'Ooh, we did it this way, we did it that way'. I just wanna go do it this way. If you like. If you don't... Team playing-I call it team individuality, it's a new, it's like a management style. Again guilty, unorthodox, sue me.