March 2010

Killing Lockstep

Nationwide Salary Watch: Morgan Lewis Raises Salaries

We have good news for Morgan, Lewis & Bockius associates. Salary information is in and most people are getting raises. True-up raises at that. The class of 2008 pulled the short straw, but everybody else seems relatively happy. A tipster reports: Please post that yesterday MLB essentially unfroze salaries (most ’08 grades only went up […]

Gay

Gay Justice Could Be Coming

When I first read this headline on the ABA Journal this morning, I became very excited: Poll Finds 55% Would Support Openly Gay Justice Gay Justice? How awesome! Justice is way too straight. Basic black letter laws and stuffy proceedings. It’d be far more exciting and visually interesting if Lady Justice was a little bit […]

Biglaw

Latham Lathams Accrued Vacation

In a move that can best be described as cheap, Latham & Watkins joins a growing list of firms that will not allow associates to accrue vacation time. Why would a firm deny its associates the opportunity to get paid out for unused vacation days when they leave the firm (voluntarily or involuntarily)? Because it […]

Morning Docket

Morning Docket 03.30.10

* Could dirty chickens take money away from legal Terrapins? [Food Safety News and Maryland Reporter] * The Ninth Circuit finds that Seattle police officers were justified in Tasering a seven-month-pregnant woman three times when she refused to get out of her car and sign a speeding ticket. Dissenting judge Marsha Berzon thinks justice was […]

Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.29.10

* Do female suicide bombers get to hook up with virgins in paradise? Would that even be desirable? I mean, aren’t virgin men the nice way of saying “men who are pathetically incompetent in bed”? [Slate] * Here’s a counter-argument to my anti-sin tax post. I’d agree with the argument if sin taxes weren’t imposed […]