February 2010
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This Week in Layoffs: 02.28.10
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. How many times have we heard this before? The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly increased last week, a sign that […]
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Quote of the Day, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law
Quote of the Weekend: Bad Math
They’re overlawyered. They’re poisoned by lawyers. – Harry Markopolos, on what’s wrong with the SEC.
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ASIA GC OPENING AT GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AND WELL FUNDED SMART PHONE TECH STARTUP, BASED IN SHENZHEN
Kinney is currently running an exclusive search for an Asia GC role at a well known tech start-up company, based in Shenzhen. This company has received significant recent praise for their new smart phone device in leading medial outlets, such as the New York Times, TIME, Mashable, Wired, Yahoo, and Forbes, among others.
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For New Yorkers Without A Snow Buddy This Weekend…
We encourage you to put your love life in our hands. We’re accepting participants in Courtship Connections through Sunday. We have nearly 100 lone legal eagles thus far. Over 60% of respondents are between the ages of 26 and 30, with slightly more females (53%) than males. This weekend is the last chance for New […]
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Boutique Law Firms, Musical Chairs, Sonnenschein, Technology
Musical Chairs: Sonnenschein Internet Practice Group Leaders to Launch New Boutique
Today is the last day at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal for Marc Zwillinger and Christian Genetski — the chair and vice-chair, respectively, of SNR’s internet practice group. Their bios have already been removed from the Sonnenschein website (our links go to cached versions), and if you email them — as we did, to confirm the […]
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* Sorry, I can’t think of anything less important than the stupid Winter Olympics. I wouldn’t grant anybody a continuance in order to participate in reindeer games. [BL1Y] * Blackmailing people into having sex with you is wrong. I do not support sexual extortion. Is that clear? Okay. Now, please take a look at this […]
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Former Maryland Law Dean Asked to Return ‘Questionable’ Compensation — But Will She?
Today brings some updates in the controversy concerning the compensation of Karen Rothenberg, former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law. From this morning’s Baltimore Sun: State university system officials have asked the former dean of the University of Maryland School of Law to return $60,000 in unauthorized compensation and have referred questionable […]
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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Couple of the Year! (Plus New January Couples)
LEWW congratulates Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson, who narrowly edged out Tracy Zuckerman and Ryan Van Grack in Couple of the Year voting to take the 2009 crown. Unfortunately, we have no trophy to award them, but maybe someone will be moved by this honor to buy Caroline and LaRue that cutlery set they still […]
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Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
If it seems I’m hard on the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), understand that it is out of love. We want NALP to succeed. We want them to gather reliable information from law firms; we want them to provide reasonable guidance for law students, schools, and firms. Having an organization like NALP sounds like […]
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Fantasy Ethics: Cheating on FantasySCOTUS?
Ed. note: ATL has teamed up with the 10th Justice to predict how the Supreme Court may decide upcoming cases. CNN has called FantasySCOTUS the “hottest new fantasy-league game.” In the four months since I launched FantasySCOTUS.net, nearly 4,000 people have signed up, and made nearly 8,000 predictions for the 81 cases currently pending before […]
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3 Big Student Loan Myths Demystified
When was the last time you took a second look at your student loans? If you’re like most borrowers, you probably try hard not to think about them. After all, dwelling on your debt isn’t going to make it go away any faster. Or is it?
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If You Bail on Biglaw, Do You Have to Repay Your Deferral Stipend?
Last week, we wrote about an interesting claim made by Russ Ferguson in the American Spectator. The Georgetown Law grad suggested that fellow deferred grads who had a taste of the sweet nectar of the public interest lawyer lifestyle may not be willing to swallow Biglaw when the time comes. Even with a six-figure salary […]
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Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer, Politics, Violence
New York Governor David Paterson Will Not Seek Reelection
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, you’re up….
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Is a miscarriage murder? In Utah, they aren’t quite going that far, but they do want to punish women who “recklessly” miscarry. The Salt Lake Tribune reports: The Utah Senate has joined the House in allowing homicide charges against expectant mothers who arrange illegal abortions. The bill responds to a case in which a Vernal […]
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Craigslist, Law Schools, Ridiculousness, Shopping
Craigslist Post of the Day: Top-Tier Law Degree ($59,250)
This should sound familiar to many of you: After several years of practicing law, a San Francisco lawyer has come to regret the decision to go to law school. Unlike many of you, this lawyer has decided to try to hawk their law degree on Craigslist. From the “For Sale – Collectibles” section of SF […]
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* House ethics panel reminds everybody why Charlie Rangel needs to resign now. [New York Post] * Snow and trees conspire to commit homicide. [Daily Beast] * But only killer whales have the malice aforethought to commit murder. [USA Today] * Activia is full of s***. [Cleveland.com] * Malpractice liability gets its place in the […]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Screw-Ups, William and Mary School of Law
Hey, Teacher … Give Those Kids Their Grades!
Grades delayed at W&M, UT – Austin… anywhere else?* Nice to see that the owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers paid less in state taxes than I did. Hey, maybe it’s part of some sweet loophole California included when they decided to steal baseball from New York City because they couldn’t make their own. [Tax Prof Blog] * Miranda now offers 14-day interrogation […]
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Bar Exam Open Thread: Reviewing Bar Review
The February bar exam is now over, for everyone, everywhere. Rejoice and enjoy that Inuit prostitute. Some of you have suggested on open threads that things went reasonably well. Others are hot messes, desperately trying to figure out firm policy when it comes to second-time failing of the bar. Many February takers are bar veterans. […]
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Lawyerly Lairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Real Estate
Covington & Burling Partners Did Not Plunder in 2009
This morning, we wrote about the partners at DLA Piper sharing in the pain of 2009. The trend at many firms reporting 2009 numbers has been the revenue line heading south while the profits-per-partner line heads north. At DLA, however, revenue and PPP were down at the firm, so Elie gave them a shout-out for […]
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