It’s exam time. As we all know, stressed out law students tend to have colorful phrases about difficult exams. There’s a common, sometimes sexually charged vernacular. “That exam raped me,” or “I made property my bitch,” are things you’re likely to hear on campus around this time. Well, the Student Bar Association at Northwestern University […]
* Incentives to donate your hunted meat. [Tax Prof Blog] * Somebody is going to sue the Biggest Loser, right? [Legal Blog Watch] * Charlie Rangel is kind of a disaster. [Going Concern] * Is law still a “white man’s game”? [Law and More] * Denying cert. [Courtoons] * How many lawyers do you need […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
Ed. note: ATL has teamed up with FantasySCOTUS, the premier Supreme Court fantasy league. (For more background, check out this WSJ Law Blog post.) On Fridays, the 10th Justice will analyze league voting to predict how the Supreme Court may decide upcoming cases. Welcome to the second installment of Predictions of the 10th Justice, brought […]
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. […]
On Wednesday, we reported that Patton Boggs was keeping its salary freeze in place. In November, we told you that Covington & Burling was instituting a salary freeze, even though the firm didn’t do it last year. But the news coming out of D.C. isn’t putting a damper on the holiday hopefulness of some New […]
As tout le monde knows, Levi Johnston — the Alaskan hunk who fathered Sarah Palin’s grandchild, and who came thisclose to becoming the Republican VP nominee’s son-in-law — recently posed for Playgirl. To the disappointment of many, he refrained from full-frontal nudity (but did bare his bum for the cameras). To check out the pics, […]
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Last year, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison based its bonuses on the Cravath scale. This year, it has decided to buck Cravath and “upsize” to the Sullivan & Cromwell scale. That means seventh year associates get $5,000 more in their stockings than those at Cravath-scale firms. Associates at Paul Weiss got the bonus news […]
Yesterday, we reported that Harvard Law School was making a change to its grading curve before finals. We told you that HLS lifted the requirement to have a certain percentage of the class received a “low pass” in the law school’s new High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail grading system. After our report went live, Harvard Law School’s […]
Stressed out? You’re not alone. A few months ago, we surveyed ATL readers about their work-related, stress-induced illnesses. Over 50% of respondents have some serious head trips, suffering from “depression/anxiety/other mental illness.” Our survey was far from scientific, but this rate strikes us as high. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the rate […]
* Columbia’s manifest destiny has hit a roadblock. [Daily News] * Kash mixes it up with legal heavyweights Daniel Solove, Diane Zimmerman, and Anita Allen in a “Room for Debate” about Tiger Woods and privacy in the digital age. [New York Times] * [Cue Howard Cosell voice] Down goes the unemployment rate! Down goes the […]
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.