July 2009
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Canceled Summer Programs - 2010, Summer Associates
Milbank Cancels 2010 Summer Program in L.A.
According to a well placed source, Milbank has decided to cancel its 2010 summer program for its Los Angeles office. We understand that the firm will still be inviting summer associates to join them in New York and Washington, D.C. The firm did not respond to our immediate request for comment. According to NALP, there […] -
Advertising, Career Center, Job Searches, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: The Associate Experience
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Associate Advice, pls hndle thx
Pls Hndle Thx: The Fugitive?
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. ATL, I am a first year associate in a small/mid-sized firm. I graduated during during the height of the recession, so it took me many months to find this job. I have been working there for about three months (and I hate […]
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Layoffs
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Layoffs Weeks in the Making Finally Come to Dechert
Dechert’s stealthiness when it comes to layoffs have been well documented in these pages. But it has been an open secret around the firm that another round of layoffs were coming. Above the Law has spoken to sources that have been talking about Dechert’s impending layoffs for nearly a month. Today, the ax is finally […] -
Layoffs
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Fulbright & Jaworski
You know, call me naive but I really thought we’d make it through the whole week without anybody getting laid off in Biglaw. After the government bloodletting earlier this week, I just had a good feeling about private practices retaining all their people for a week. If I were in a Star Wars movie, I’d […] -
Politics
New Jersey Corruption Has Seton Hall Law Connection
Twitter is a twitter with news about the corruption scandal in New Jersey. To this point, 30 people have been taken into custody. The Newark-Star Ledger reports: The arrests are the result of a two-year FBI and IRS probe that began with an investigation of money transfers by members of the Syrian enclaves in Deal […] -
Bar Exams, Holy Crap, Libraries / Librarians
Ahhhhhhhh. The Bar Exam! And a Fire!
Last night, NYU had two “firestorms”: the announcement that Dr. Thio would not be coming to campus, and a more literal fire at NYU’s Bobst library. From a tipster around 5 p.m. yesterday: Just got out of NYU’s Bobst library. There was a small fire and they evacuated everybody inside. I had to run down […] -
Sweet Hot Justice
Losing Your Mind: A Primer
[Ed. note: The following piece was authored by The Legal Tease, of Sweet Hot Justice fame. Check out her other musings from Sweet Hot Justice here.] There are a few moments in any young lawyer’s life guaranteed to perk up the day. Closing a deal after a marathon of strained, sleepless nights. Winning a case […] - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket 07.23.09
* Stephen R. Connoni, formerly a partner at K&L Gates and at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, is suing Edwards Angell for firing him. [New York Law Journal] * ESPN will now let its reporters talk about the sexual assault case against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. [New York Times] * Obama weighs in on […]
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Li-ann Thio
Breaking: Dr. Thio Is Not Coming To NYU LawUpdate: Official NYU statement now available.
Details are still sketchy, but word on the street is that Dr. Li-ann Thio will not be coming to NYU Law School this fall. It appears that Dr. Thio has voluntarily decided not to serve as a visiting professor. As many of you know, Dr. Thio has been heavily criticized by some in the NYU […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.22.09
* I believe it was the great Rocky Balboa who once said “If I can change, and yous can change, then maybe we all cannnnwrrrgghhlubbbbb.” [Copyranter] * Some jobs can only get done properly in the Bronx. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog] * Don’t Go To Law School ™, now available in list form. […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Quinn Defers Half of the Incoming First Years in S.F. & Silicon Valley
If you are an incoming first year at Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco or Silicon Valley office, you are probably on the final stretch of your CA bar exam preparations. If so, please stop reading this post right now. We don’t want to put any extra pressure on you guys. For everybody else, you might be […] -
Going Concern
Where is Jack McCoy When You Need Him?
There are still so many people to sue in the wake of the Bernie Madoff scandal. Going Concern has listed the accounting firms most at risk. Isn’t this a perfect opportunity for a crusading prosecutor? Screw crime and punishment, what is wrong with some good, ol’ fashioned monetary revenge? Check out the full post on […]
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Summer Associates
Schulte Summers: Try To Chill Out and Work The Problem
The Above the Law tips line achieved a critical mass of Schulte Roth chatter after a summer associate meeting at the firm yesterday. We’ve contacted various parties who were at the meeting and the firm itself. Here is what went down. Over the course of the meeting Jeffrey A. Lenobel, a member of the firm’s […] -
Blogging, Harvard, Police, Racism
Gatesgate: More Links From Around The Web
This morning, we mentioned that Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. talked to the Washington Post about his arrest (the charges have already been dropped). But there is a lot of chatter around the web about this instance of racial profiling — or honest mistake, depending on your point of view. Writing for the Daily Beast, […] -
Salary Cuts
Troutman Sanders: Mystery Meeting Follow Up
You know what that graphic means, don’t you? Yesterday, we told you that there would be a big meeting at Troutman Sanders today. The meeting has concluded and we can now report on the news from the firm. Here is the statement a Troutman spokesperson provided to Above the Law: Responding to changing market conditions […] -
More Trauma For Duke Law School Students
This seems like a stressful time to be enrolled at Duke Law School. The news of firms pulling out of on-campus interviewing at the school continues to grow. The latest big name firms to partially pull out of Duke recruiting are DLA Piper and Kirkland & Ellis. Here’s the email Duke students received late last […] -
Job Searches, Layoffs, Notes from the Breadline
Notes from the Breadline: All I Can Do Is Write About It
Ed. note: Welcome to the latest installment of “Notes from the Breadline,” a column by a laid-off lawyer in New York. Prior columns are collected here. You can reach Roxana St. Thomas by email (at roxanastthomas@gmail.com), follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook.The beauty of being unemployed in the summer is that, well, […] -
9th Circuit, Conferences / Symposia, Federal Judges, Kathleen Sullivan, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
At the Ninth Circuit Conference: Kathleen Sullivan and Janet Napolitano
Greetings from the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. We’ve been having a great time schmoozing with federal judicial celebrities, here in lovely (but surprisingly chilly) Monterey. Yesterday we participated in an excellent panel discussion about the future of journalism, together with some boldface names: Linda Greenhouse (moderator), former Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times; […] -
Celebrities, Sports, Television
Bingham McCutchen Takes Erin Andrews Mega-case
We already mentioned the Erin Andrews situation this morning. The ESPN anchor was spied on through a peephole at a hotel. Andrews is considering her actions, and she has retained counsel. Bingham McCutchen will be taking on this high-profile case. Here is the statement from Bingham’s Marshall B. Grossman: While alone in the privacy of […]