Most people who follow my blog know that I almost never post press releases. Don’t get me wrong, I am all about giving free publicity to companies when I can, especially the ones that I find scrappy and innovative. I just think press releases have become antiquated in their use as a marketing tool. Any […]
Readers have been begging for a follow-up on the NYU 3Ls who threatened Mayer Brown with “Public Relations Disaster.” One reader suggests we set up a pay-per-view event: ATL should sponsor a cage match, pitting the UT 1Ls against the NYU 3Ls, in a fight to the career death. Well, boy do we have a […]
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* Eriq Gardner suggests five reasons why Lindsay Lohan may have filed her ridiculous E-Trade-baby-whore lawsuit… [THR, Esq.] * …But this is the most likely reason. [Gawker via True/Slant] * Lanny Davis and Eileen O’Connor of McDermott, Will, & Emery have advice for lawyers in talking to reporters. But when it comes to stealth layoffs, […]
For yesterday’s Quote of the Day, we highlighted a recent comment by Chief Justice John Roberts, who said he found President Obama’s shout-out to the Supreme Court in the State of the Union to be “very troubling.” And that was the end of that, right? Not quite. Not by a long shot. Last night, the […]
Last week, I asked Above the Law readers to give me their best poker advice. I’ll be in a tournament this weekend at Caesars Palace – Atlantic City, sponsored by Stockings and Bonds. Click here for the details.* As I said, my main motivation — aside from the $30,000 prize pool — is to stick […]
The current New Yorker caption contest is legally-themed and sexually explicit, so it begs for our attention. The Nine get naughty! We couldn’t get permission to post it here, so you’ll have to click over to the New Yorker to check it out. We did a little background check on the finalists for the caption […]
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.
The reaction to three Texas 1Ls slamming the University of Texas Law School came in fast — so fast, in fact, that the Texas administration was on the defensive even before we published our post yesterday. Over at Legal Writing Prof Blog, Professor Wayne Schiess, Director of the UT legal writing program, responded to the […]
The pace of law firm layoffs has been slowing. As noted by Lawshucks in the last installment of This Week in Layoffs, a second consecutive week passed with no reported layoff news. Some firms that have conducted large-scale layoffs — cough cough, Latham — are even hiring again. At McDermott Will & Emery, however, the […]
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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. A New York Times article from a few weeks ago holds […]
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: Due to technical difficulties, for which we apologize, this post may not have appeared for some readers until after 11 a.m. * Snowball fight = criminal possession of a weapon? [Daily News] * To attack detainee lawyers or not: that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of […]