March 2009

  • Admin

    Enough With The Scare Tactics

    Apparently, some of you have been receiving emails from your firm telling you not to communicate with “the media” about all the things going on around the office. Thanks, by the way, for sending us those emails. It seems like some firms want to keep their layoffs really, really quiet. Evidently, these firms believe that […]
  • Husch Blackwell, Layoffs, Screw-Ups

    Husch Blackwell Follow-Up

    For a Midwestern firm, Husch Blackwell drew a lot of comments (and a huge amount of email) yesterday. Perhaps that had something to do with the fact that firm chairman Dave Fenley declined to use the term “layoffs” in connection with the firm’s actions, saying the term wrongly implied the attorneys were let go because […]
  • Credit Crisis, Wall Street

    Jon Stewart v. Jim Cramer

    This isn’t really our beat, but Dealbreaker has the full video of smackdown Jon Stewart gave Jim Cramer on The Daily Show last night. It’s great television YouTube. Granted, Stewart’s grasp of macroeconomics is not great. But it is significantly better than Bill Maher’s (who asked Erin Burnett last week why “growing” was important for […]

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  • Education / Schools, Money, Student Loans

    Student Loan Bailout. Just Do It.

    Dear President Obama, First Lady Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, Education Secretary Duncan: Hello all. I am writing on behalf of the massive amount of educational debt that I am no longer able to pay. Like so many young Americans, I got into a much better and more expensive school than my family could afford. After […]
  • Biglaw, Job Searches

    Interview Tips: Biglaw to Small Law (Part I)

    [Ed. Note: There are a lot of associates out there who have been recently laid off from Biglaw jobs. Many of them are trying to get jobs at small to medium sized firms. But the mechanics of getting one of those precious jobs are a lot different from what people experienced during on-campus interviewing season. […]
  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket 03.12.08

    * Will Bernard Madoff get a “Go To Jail” card today? [New York Times] * The first step to (economic) recovery is admitting you have a problem. The Snark says enough with the stealth firings already, BigLaw. [Fulton County Daily Report] * Are the SCOTUS justices playing fast and loose with the law to be […]

  • NYU Law Revue Preview

    Many of you know that I am an HLS Parody alum. I have a healthy respect for law students flexing their creative cords. And since it’s not like there’s anything anybody can do to get jobs just at the moment, what’s the harm in having a little fun? That said, I’m not at all above […]
  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 03.11.09

    * Harvard Law Sports Law Symposium. I hope somebody puts the transcript online so I can finally understand who is liable when a coxswain falls in the Charles and dies of radiation poisoning. [SportsJudge Blog] * Easterbrook v. Posner: Who will prevail in the Supreme Court? Let’s get ready to ruuuuumble. [Floyd Norris] *The DOW […]