July 2009

Salary Cuts

Troutman Sanders: Pay Cut is NOT Retroactive

Earlier this week, we reported that the Troutman Sanders pay cut applied to associates’ entire 2009 salary. We were wrong about that. A Troutman Sanders spokesperson explained to us that the pay cut will only apply to associate compensation from August 1, 2009 through the end of the year. Why the confusion? Let’s go back […]

Pls Hndle Thx: Reverse Schadenfreude

Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to [email protected]. ATL, What is current law firm protocol with respect to affairs between partners and associates? The head of one the practice groups at my firm is having an affair with an associate in another group. It has been going on for awhile […]

Perverts

Lawyer of the Day: Todd Genger

What is it about high-powered lawyers and underage girls? Remember James Colliton, the ex-Cravath tax lawyer who had his way with two teenage girls — after paying their mother for the privilege? It seems Colliton may have company. Todd Genger — a (somewhat cute) 33-year-old lawyer at Goldman Sachs, and a father of three — […]

Real Estate

A Very Expensive Typo? Stroock Isn’t Sweating It

Earlier this week, we wrote about a serious drafting mistake by Stroock & Stroock & Lavan — maybe a typo, maybe not — that could cost Stroock’s client millions. Could Stroock look to its malpractice insurer for help? Maybe not, according to the New York Post: The gaffe exposes Stroock to the real possibility of […]

Layoffs

Are Layoffs Coming to Kirkland & Ellis?

The rumor mill is churning over at Kirkland & Ellis this week. While we’re unable to confirm that the firm is poised to grind down associates, we are hearing from sources worried that layoffs are coming. The first warning sign came last week, when we learned that Kirkland had decided to move up annual performance […]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket: 07.30.09

* Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, signed off on a decision to drop a voter intimidation complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party. [Washington Times] * Can’t we all just get along — with the help of beer? Today at a White House picnic, […]

Bar Exams

Bar Exam Day 2 Open Thread

Today’s big bar exam news is that the ancient and decrepit Jacob Javits Convention Center sprung a leak. A tipster reports the news from Manhattan: In the middle of the afternoon session, the ceiling started to leak and it appeared that it required a few students to relocate. It was somewhat noisy and created a […]

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Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs 07.29.09

* Don’t walk into a Bronx courtroom looking like you live in the Bronx. [Gothamist] * Paul Weiss doesn’t limp into Delaware, Paul Weiss runs into Delaware with the force of a mack truck. [WSJ Law Blog] * Anna Wintour appears to be unfamiliar with the Sherman Act. [Fashionista; New York Observer] * Is trying […]

Dissolution

Former Heller Ehrman Building Forfeit to Lenders

Since it has been so long since Heller Ehrman collapsed, it’s easy to forget that the firm’s dissolution continues to affect so many. Today, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the owners of the building that housed Heller will now have to forfeit that property: The owners of a premier San Francisco office tower plan […]

Crime

Tragedy At Southwestern School of Law

It’s a pretty sad time at Southwestern School of Law. The National Law Journal reports: The recent murder of a 17-year-old girl who was abducted near the Los Angeles campus of Southwestern University School of Law has sent shockwaves through the law school. The victim’s mother, Deborah Drooz, a partner at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, […]