Ed. note: This is a guest post by Anonymous Law Professor (“ALP”), who may be writing occasionally for these pages. Given how stressed-out law students are right now — as reflected in, among other things, their exam-time tweets — we asked ALP to offer some advice on the dreaded law school exam, from the professorial […]
* Kash wants Tiger to talk. Now! She’ll show Tiger the business end of a Gillette razor if Tiger doesn’t start coming clean. Me? I think we need to take a closer look at Tiger’s 9-1-1 calling neighbor. [True/Slant] * Martindale-Hubbell is still alive and kicking. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog] * Lat on […]
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I really didn’t think any firm would lay people off last week. I figured the coming turkey holocaust would spare the jobs of any associates Biglaw wanted to devour. I was wrong. A tipster reports: There was another round of layoffs at Faegre & Benson last week. The partners decided to send six to ten […]
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, it’s time to shift into holiday season mode. Let’s do that with a caption contest. Here’s the photo: This time the rules are a little different. We’re going to have not one but two contests. The first contest will be a traditional ATL caption contest — put your suggested […]
Ed. note: Welcome to ATL’s first foray into serial fiction. “My Job Is Murder,” a mystery set in a D.C. appellate boutique, will appear one chapter at a time, M-W-F, over the next few weeks. Prior installments appear here; please read them first. Susanna Dokupil can be reached by email at [email protected] or on Facebook. […]
A lot of people have been emailing Above the Law asking about their partnership prospects. Senior associates who have survived layoffs are evidently concerned about whether they will have an opportunity to transition from employees to owners. Our tipsters report their anecdotal sense that fewer partners are being made this year, at least compared to […]
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
President Obama recently announced that Guantanamo Bay will not be closing in January – reneging on a promise he had made to close the detention center within a year of his taking office. This did not come as a surprise to the many lawyers who have provided counsel to the detainees in Cuba. At a […]
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Even though we’re going to see unemployment continue at the highest level since 1983, there are some promising trends. November payrolls are expected to fall […]
We mentioned L’Affaire Tiger Woods in Morning Docket (first three links), but since it was the big story of the long holiday weekend, we thought we’d revisit it in more detail. This story has a number of interesting legal angles. The most thorough coverage appears over at TMZ. Check out these posts, which thrown together […]
The bonus machine keeps on rolling. Milbank Tweed announced its 2009 associate bonus schedule just before Thanksgiving. The firm will be matching Cravath. It’s interesting that Milbank decided to match the bonus market, considering the firm has already greatly reduced the size of its summer program. In July, we reported that Milbank canceled its 2010 […]
How a former insurance agent built a Houston injury practice around systems, empathy, and disciplined advocacy.
* Welcome back from the holiday weekend. Hope your Thanksgiving was better than that of Tiger Woods. [TMZ] * Some background on Tiger Woods’s lawyer, Mark Nejame, “the Johnnie Cochran of Central Florida.” [Business Insider] * Meanwhile, Rachel Uchitel — the alleged mistress of Tiger Woods — has hired celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. [People] * […]
Back in July, we wrote about Robert Bowman, whose application for admission to the New York bar was derailed by debt. A panel of five appellate judges concluded that, in the words of the New York Times, “his student loans were too big, and his efforts to repay them too meager, for him to be […]
* The job market is difficult for law school graduates? You don’t say. [ABC News] * A former UBS banker, on his way to prison for 40 months for helping rich folks evade taxes, might end up with a billion-dollar whistleblower reward when he comes out. [New York Times] * Hundreds if not thousands of […]
For most of us, today is Thanksgiving! For a small segment of the population, today is the 2009 National Day of Mourning. The United American Indians of New England describe the day as: An annual tradition since 1970, Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day. Many of us fast from sundown […]
* All charges have been dropped against prominent Miami defense lawyer Ben Kuehne (pictured), but questions remain regarding the government’s commitment to the Sixth Amendment right to counsel. [Daily Business Review] * The ABA supports Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try KSM and the other accused 9/11 co-conspirators in federal court. [ABA Journal] * […]