Could the full faith and credit clause actually have some teeth? Apparently in Maryland, it does. The Washington Post reports: Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) says effective immediately the state recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere and state agencies should begin giving gay couples the rights they were awarded elsewhere. Memo to gay D.C. […]
Leading legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin — this year’s commencement speaker at Penn Law and Golden Gate Law, by the way — has been making headlines rather than writing them as of late. Last week we covered his family court showdown with Casey Greenfield, an associate at Gibson Dunn and the daughter of television pundit Jeff […]
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.
About a week ago, K&L Gates’s Peter Kalis called for the abolition of NALP. Kalis was focused on NALP’s well-documented problems trying to guide the recruitment of fresh talent to Biglaw. Kalis isn’t alone in thinking that NALP does an ineffective job setting out legal recruitment guidelines. But if the organization can’t even be trusted […]
Ed. note: This post is written by Will Meyerhofer, a Biglaw attorney turned psychotherapist, whom we profiled. A former Sullivan & Cromwell associate, he holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work. He blogs at The People’s Therapist. My patient, a senior associate doing IP litigation at a downtown […]
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It’s hard to fit the gym into your schedule. Sometimes it’s even harder to fit it into your budget. Especially if you live in New York, where monthly gym membership fees could fetch you a studio apartment somewhere in flyover country. Of course, there are more hard bodies to ogle at Equinox than in Phoenix. […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
Say one thing for former Detroit Mayor — and former ATL Lawyer of the Day — Kwame Kilpatrick: he’s got balls. I’m not talking about his sexual prowess, preserved in steamy text messages. I’m talking about the kind of testicular fortitude it takes to make the following argument to a Michigan Court. The Detroit Free […]
* Tom Goldstein thoroughly analyzes the field of SCOTUS contenders. His prediction: Elena Kagan will be the next associate justice of the Supreme Court. [SCOTUSblog] * Pro-gun laws are spreading throughout the states, despite fears that the Obama Administration was planning a crackdown on firearms. [New York Times] * White & Case isn’t the only […]
We previously named Verna Sue Holland, a retired judge from Texas, an Ex-Judge of the Day. Now the ex-judge — or should that be “sex judge” — is back in the news. Writes Adam Liptak, in the New York Times: Charles Dean Hood was sentenced to death in 1990 by a Texas judge who had […]
As we noted this morning, today was the first day of the bar exam for many of you. In light of the still-fragile legal economy, where some firms are looking for any excuse to fire associates, passing the bar exam may be more important than ever. Some firms — e.g., Quinn Emanuel — have specific […]
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.
* Freezing judicial salaries is unconstitutional, according to a bunch of New York judges — except for dissenting judge Robert Smith, who argued that there are still plenty of able judges, and chief judge Jonathan Lippman, who had to recuse because he’s a plaintiff. [City Room/New York Times] * Habla espanol? Then you’re fired. [Change] […]
Philip Howard wants to “liberate Americans from too much law,” even though the law has served him well. The UVA Law grad is a partner at Covington & Burling. He made a strident argument for legal reform in his book last year, Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans From Too Much Law. Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick reviewed […]
One of our five favorite motions of 2009 was filed by Arizona attorney Tajudeen “Taj” Oladiran. Oladiran is former Greenberg Traurig associate who filed a lawsuit against “Suntrust Bank and its pimps” for allegedly suckering him into predatory housing loans. Taj filed a “Motion for a [sic] Honest and Honorable Court System” in his racketeering […]
Most of the time, the other students acted like I wasn’t even alive. Some of them asked if I was really serious. I told them I could take a first-class trip around the world and not spend as much money and not have to work as hard. — Alice Thomas, 79, who will graduate from […]
We spent the past two weekends speaking at law school conferences (at U. Penn and Case Western). This gave us the opportunity to meet and chat with numerous law students. Summer jobs were a common topic of conversation. The vast majority of law students we spoke with, including 2Ls, did not yet have their summer […]