September 2009
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New York State Bar Association Listserv Madness
A couple of days ago, an attorney sent in an email to the New York State Bar Association listserv. Like many people, the attorney was looking for a job. He decided to ask the listserv for some helpful tips: Subject: [nysba-nonres] (somewhat) new attorney still seeking first FT position From: [Redacted] To: nysba-nonres@lists.nysba.org Its a […]
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* Yesterday’s O’Melveny news is still rippling through the blogosphere. Will the firm now be known as the Martin Luther of Biglaw? [Law and More] * Remember, if you are in Washington, D.C. next Wednesday September 23rd, head down to Georgetown to meet David Lat and talk about new media and the law. [Georgetown Federalist […]
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“I’ve landed a job as an associate at a top law firm, but why am I paying 7% on my student loans?”
I became a lawyer without really understanding that the job cuts time off of your life. My work hours are long, I can’t see my family or friends, and I am constantly at the mercy of the partner or the client. On top of everything, at one point, I was paying 7% on my law school loans. […]
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Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Job Searches
Clerkship Application Season: D-Day
It’s the afternoon of Thursday, September 17. Do you know where your clerkship is? Today is the first day, pursuant to the Law Clerk Hiring Plan for 2009 — which some judges follow, and some don’t — when interviews may be held and offers made. The plan even specifies a time of day for interviews […]
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Oh happy day! It brings us news of a beloved figure who has been long absent from these pages: Monica Goodling, our favorite DOJ diva. And the news for Goodling, a high-ranking and influential official in the Bush Administration’s Justice Department, is good. Remember the case of Gerlich v. U.S. Department of Justice, the putative […]
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Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Job Searches, This Is an Ad
Career Center: How Is Your Career Looking?
Over the last month, we’ve seen a significant spike in the number of ATL readers making use of the information on the Career Center. With hundreds of thousands of visitors to the law firm snapshots and tens of thousands of law firm comparisons generated on the Career Center, we want to know what is on […]
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Federal Judges, Judge of the Day, Money
Judge Stephen G. Larson Resigns Because Judges are Underpaid (But Are They Really?)
Federal judges have been complaining about their salaries for years now, but all they’ve managed to get recently is a small cost of living increase. Federal judge Stephen Larson of the Central District of California is taking a stand on the issue — by quitting. From the National Law Journal: U.S. District Judge Stephen G. […]
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Fabulosity, Fashion, Perks / Fringe Benefits
Biglaw Perk Watch: Clifford Chance’s Lingerie Allowance?
Like most days, I started my morning with a Red Bull and the best morning man in the business, Pat Kiernan. Everything was proceeding normally, until I received this tip in the ATL inbox: Women lawyers at City firm Clifford Chance have been given a £90 lingerie allowance. Now, as you can well imagine, I […]
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Barack Obama, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Jeffrey Toobin, New Yorker, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The current New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jeffrey Toobin on President Obama’s judicial picks. Toobin took part in a live chat about the piece at NewYorker.com right now earlier today if you’re interested. (Try not to crash their website.). UPDATE: The chat’s quite interesting. Toobin reveals why he likes Justice Souter best and […]
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Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Professors, Law Schools
Boston College Defends Anti-Gay Marriage Professor
Yesterday, we talked about a Boston College Law professor, Scott Fitzgibbon, who went up to Maine to shoot an anti-gay-marriage commercial. John Garvey, Dean of Boston College Law, didn’t respond to us, but he did send around an email to the BC Law community. As many predicted, Dean Garvey defended Professor Fitzgibbon. Here is the […]
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Lessons Learned from the Top eDiscovery Cases and Trends from 2014
The adage that law turns slowly does not hold in eDiscovery. This year saw unprecedented sanction awards for falling behind the curve. Courts did not hesitate to engage with advanced and nuanced technological issues. For lawyers and other eDiscovery professionals who plan on maintaining basic competence, these cases and trends shouldn’t be overlooked. For a full exploration of trends and developments in this area of case law, check out this on-demand webinar.
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* Happy Constitution Day. [Concurring Opinions] * Georgia judge Clay Land reprimanded an attorney and threw out an Army captain’s “birther movement” lawsuit, which opposed Iraq deployment based on Barack Obama’s supposed illegitimacy to be president. [Ledger-Enquirer] * What else could Congress do to Joe Wilson? [Slate] * Pace Law is offering an accelerated degree […]
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Nobody Puts
BabySonia Sotomayor in a CornerJust last week SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor was spotted cutting a rug at the Irish Channel Pub in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown. This week, she’s on the dance floor again, but this time the location is a bit more upscale. From the Reliable Source at the Washington Post: The annual gala of the National Hispanic Foundation […]
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The New Biglaw Business Model, According to O’Melveny & Myers
There has been so much talk about the death of Biglaw that the term has become a cliché. These are challenging times, to be sure. But many firms are in the process of adjusting to the market, by making long-term plans to revise their business models so they can thrive in the future. One such […]
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* Another signal that Justice Stevens might be on his way out. [The BLT: Blog of the Legal Times] * Are Alabaman men threatened by sex toys? [Quiz Law] * Oh, health care reform is unconstitutional now. [WSJ Law Blog] * Can you get a better grade by stalking your professor? [True/Slant] * Ms. McMahon […]
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Interview Stories, Job Searches, Layoffs, Notes from the Breadline
Notes from the Breadline: Always Seem to Get Things Wrong (Part I)
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 news that filters down to the breadline these days […]
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Those Who Can’t Mass Email, Blog
Law firm mass emails can be a bitter pill to swallow. Nobody wants to be publicly accused of, say, taking craps on the bathroom floor. In that instance, a simple multiple-choice survey on bathroom habits followed by a marksmanship competition would have sufficed. One legal administrator recently learned the hard way that sending inflammatory mass […]
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Sports and the Law: First Brief in American Needle v. NFL Due on Friday
For those who have been following the Supreme Court case American Needle v. NFL (previously blogged about in more detail here, here, and here), this Friday clothing manufacturer American Needle Inc. will file its opening brief, arguing that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to define the NFL as a single-entity under Section […]
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Nationwide Salary Cut Watch: Don’t Forget About Faegre & Benson
We’ve been doing a lot of coverage on Dorsey & Whitney. The firm canceled its 2010 summer program and only had a 56% offer rate to its 2009 summers. But we don’t want to forget about another Minneapolis powerhouse firm, Faegre & Benson. Earlier this month, we learned that the firm had decided to cut […]
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