November 2009

Breaking: Skadden Bonuses Are Out … And Not Very Exciting

Skadden has decided to match the Cravath scale. Here’s the scale: 2008 — $7,500 2007 — $10,000 2006 — $15,000 2005 — $20,000 2004 — $25,000 2003 — $30,000 2002 — $30,000 With Skadden and Cravath on the same page, the rest of this bonus season might be devoid of any real drama. Associates will […]

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Making a Vulgar Comment Now Gets You Fired?

As an editor of Above the Law, I find the headline below amusing. As a commenter on Above the Law, some of you will find the headline terrifying. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday. Well, that’s putting way too nice of a spin on it. […]

Student Loans

UCLA Students Protest Fee Hikes

A tipster just sent in this video from UCLA: Berkeley students, take note. That is how you cause a ruckus. The AP reports: About 200 demonstrators are chanting and marching around a UCLA building where University of California regents are scheduled to vote on a 32 percent fee increase for next year. Protesters from several […]

Crime

Is it Illegal Not to Tip?

Somewhere Mr. Pink is smiling. The Express-Times reports: Moravian College senior Leslie Pope and John Wagner, a Lehigh University graduate student, were handcuffed and transported from the Lehigh Pub to Bethlehem police headquarters Oct. 23 after failing to pay a mandatory 18 percent gratuity. Pope and Wagner, members of a party of eight during happy […]

Magic Circle

British Firms Catch Outsourcing Fever

It appears that Magic Circle firms have fallen in love with outsourcing. Most American associates will hope that like Mad Cow disease, the outsourcing craze stays on English side of the ocean. The Lawyer reports: Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the first magic circle firm to outsource legal work as an increasing number of […]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket 11.19.09

* Duke law grad Stanley Hilton, 60, sues San Francisco Airport (and some 500 others) for $15 million for ruining his life. The airport noise, which sounds like “bombs dropping in a war zone,” caused his marriage and career to fall apart, he alleges. [San Mateo County Times via San Francisco Chronicle] * The Ninth […]

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 11.18.09

* In Tennessee you can run for elected office under a fake name. I predict “Jack Daniels” will be Tennessee’s next Governor. [Young Lawyers Blog] * Kash did some research on what search terms people use to find us. The results are disturbing. [True/Slant] * Some companies just don’t like the U.S. court system. [Going […]