Last year witnessed a Valentine’s Day Massacre in the legal profession. Over 800 lawyers and staffers lost their jobs in the week leading up to V-Day. This year, the week before Valentine’s Day was comparatively full of sweetness and light — totally appropriate for the holiday of love. In fact, it looked like last week […]
Happy Presidents Day. We’ll be on a reduced publication schedule today. (And Elie is on vacation this week.) * The KSM trial is forcing attorney general Eric Holder to adjust his “political antennae.” [New York Times and The New Yorker] * Law students like mock trials but don’t want to get involved in the real […]
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Last year at this time, I took a winter break to visit sunny Las Vegas. Everything went well until a drunk Irishman pushed all in with A-Q, against my A-K wired. He flopped a queen, two days’ worth of winnings evaporated, and I tried to commit suicide via the MGM Grand lion enclosure. This year, […]
Some students at Brooklyn Law School seem a bit frustrated by their job prospects. So they constructed this, outside one of the residence halls…. UPDATE: We’ve added a second, better photo of what the BLS students built, also after the jump.
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. In celebration of this law-firm-layoff-free week, we’re taking a break from reporting on the US government’s published unemployment numbers. We found something far more interesting […]
The legal blogosphere has been shot in the heart with Cupid’s arrow. Here at Above the Law, we’re turning into matchmakers. The Texas Lawyer is telling us about lawyers in love. Am Law Daily is profiling Biglaw power couples. And Avvo has a guide to dating lawyers, claiming that you lawyerly types are a hot […]
* Dr. Dre is suing Death Row Records. I wish Eazy-E were alive to see this. [Pitchfork] * Lanny Davis, who recently moved from Orrick to McDermott Will & Emery, has started a crisis management blog. I have a question: “Dear Lanny: There’s an intern here at the Above the Law offices, and, well … […]
Semifinal voting for Legal Eagle Couple of the Year is over, and we’re frankly stunned by the couples you picked to move on to the finals. In Pool One, two Harvard Law grads — the number-three seed — beat two sets of Yale Law grads, one with twin Supreme Court clerkships. In Pool Two, you […]
Sidley Austin associates, never underestimate the power of flipping out. Earlier today, we reported that Sidley Austin associates hit the proverbial roof (“proverbial roof” = hit send button on emails to Above the Law) when Winston & Strawn announced its salary structure (which we reported even earlier today). The Winston announcement, coupled with the fact […]
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to [email protected]. ATL, With Valentine’s Day coming up, do you think there is any merit to the argument that people should settle when they are trying to find a mate? Is there particular merit to this claim as to (busy) attorneys? Litigate or Settle […]
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After we published news of Winston & Strawn’s salary freeze, our Sidley Austin tipsters went apoplectic. A Facebook message I received moments after publishing the Winston news seems to sum up the mood of Sidley associates: My firm [Sidley] is more like Winston than it is like a good firm. I should have gone to […]
Way back when, in 2008, we talked about starting a little something called ATL Courtship Connections. We know there are a lot of lonely lawyers out there, and we wanted to do our part to throw you together and see what happens. Unfortunately, over the last year, we’ve been more focused on lawyers getting laid […]
Think back to first-year contracts class, specifically, discussion of the U.C.C. and non-conforming goods. Then check out this article, from BBC News: An Arab country’s ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair. The woman had worn an Islamic veil, known as the niqab, […]
Another salary shoe has fallen in Chicago. Winston & Strawn froze salaries last year, and they are doing it again this year. A tipster reports: Chicago received salary memos yesterday; DC just received salary memos today – All are individualized with no general pay scale included – just the recipient’s salary information. Based on conversations […]
* President Obama will personally get into the debate about where to hold the Khalid Sheik Mohammed terror trial. [Washington Post] * New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate will sue the State Senate for ousting him. [Daily News] * The man in charge of shutting down the government. [New York Times] * As Congress tries […]