March 2010
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Guantanamo Bay, Litigatrix, Pro Bono, Public Interest, War on Terror
Is Paul Weiss in Bed With Terrorists?Leading law firm attacked in controversial WSJ op-ed.
That’s the question essentially posed in a barn-burning op-ed piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, written by Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn. Burlingame is the sister of Charles Burlingame III, pilot of the American Airlines plane that was crashed at the Pentagon on September 11; Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense […] -
Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Student Loans
Franklin Pierce Law Center In Talks to Merge with University of New Hampshire
We’ve got another public university in New England looking to acquire a third tier law school. But don’t worry, we’re not looking at another Southern New England School of Law/UMass situation. There, UMass acquired the unaccredited Southern New England under the guise of making a place for public interest lawyers in Massachusetts — at the […] - Sponsored
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Billable Hours, Blind Item, Reader Polls
Blind Item: Biglaw Partner Likes Your Faces
Working from home is one of the perks of living in the Internet age. The downside is that work more easily intrudes into the rest of your life. But being chained to your BlackBerry is better than being chained to your office chair. A partner in the Miami office of an AmLaw 50 firm doesn’t […]
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Admin, Advertising, Announcements, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
A quick word of thanks to this week’s advertisers on Above the Law: John Varvatos Kaplan PMBR Kinney Recruiting Lateral Link Lexis Nexis New York Times Reader 2.0 Race Suntrust 2010 PWM Legal Thomson Reuters If you’re interested in advertising on Above the Law or any other site in the Breaking Media network, download our […] -
Salary Cuts
K&L Gates: A Boston Salary Cut Makes for an Interesting Mob Mollification Strategy
K&L Gates is cutting salaries, again. This time the cuts seem directed at K&L Gates associates in the firm’s Boston office. But more importantly, these appear to be tactical cuts that will hurt associates currently at the firm, while doing as little damage as possible to K&L’s recruiting brochures. A tipster reports the headline news: […] -
Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Dangerous Items
The Court’s extensive review of these pages serves as a useful reminder that loaded guns, sharp objects and law degrees should be kept out of the reach of children. — United States Magistrate Judge Paul Cleary of the Northern District of Oklahoma, from the Opinion and Order in AG Equipment Company v. AIG Life Insurance […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2009, Associate Salaries, Chapman and Cutler
Chapman and Cutler Brings Next Year's Bonus News Today
Late last week, Chicago based Chapman & Cutler released its 2009 bonus news. It’s not that impressive. But the firm also previewed what it will pay in bonuses for 2010. It’s … not that impressive. A tipster reports: [T]his year the vast majority of associates did not receive any bonus whatsoever. So apples to apples, […] -
Eric Holder, Fenwick & West, Morning Docket
Morning Docket 03.16.10
Ed. note: We apologize for the late docket. Technical difficulties, rather than oversleeping, are to blame. * Yale Law School student Michael Seringhaus wants to put your DNA in a national database. [New York Times] * Judge goes heavy on the prison time and light on the restitution for the man who peephole video-taped ESPN […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.15.10
* If Legally Blonde makes your list of Top Five Movies “about the law” you kind of deserve to be beaten about the face and neck. [It’s Just Movies] * … Instead, check out “The Good Wife” which is really knocking out some quality programming. Or, as many readers have pointed out, last week’s Modern […] -
SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Supreme Spouses
In our recent caption contest, there were quite a few captions that alluded to the members of the Supreme Court being in bed with conservatives. As we reported this morning, Clarence Thomas is most definitely in bed with a conservative. Ginni Thomas is the President and CEO of the newly launched 501(c)(4), Liberty Central Inc., […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools, Student Loans
The College of Law -- London, Makes Move in U.S. Market
Do you want to sit for the New York Bar Exam without spending three years in an American law school? Now you can. But you’re not going to be saving a whole lot of time, and we’re not sure if you’re going to be saving any money. The Lawyer reports that the College of Law […] -
Courtship Connection
ATL Courtship Connection: "Good Luck To You"
Here at Above the Law, we’re experts at bringing you breaking legal news. For a change of pace, we decided to try something in which we don’t necessarily have expertise: matchmaking. We invited single New Yorkers to hand their dating lives over to us and had over 160 people take us up on the invitation. […] -
Gambling / Gaming, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Poker: What Lawyers Can Learn About Bankers at the Table
Thanks again to the people at Caesar’s Atlantic City, Harrah’s, and the people at Stockings and Bonds for inviting me to their poker tournament over the weekend. I didn’t win, mainly because God hates me. But I didn’t embarrass myself either. I finished 20th out of 91 players. And I learned some important lessons about […]
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ACLU, Gay, Law Schools
Hate Abounds at University of Idaho College of Law
The administration at the University of Idaho, College of Law, is dealing with a spate of hate inspired incidents. The news coming out from Idaho is all fairly grotesque; federal authorities have been alerted to the potentially dangerous problems on campus. In an email to all Idaho law students, associate dean Elizabeth Brandt explains that […] -
Law Schools, Money, Student Loans
Hypocrisy on Stilts: Law School Professor Calls Out Trade Schools Over Student Debt
There was an article in the New York Times this weekend that jumped off the page and kind of smacked me in the mouth. The headline reads: “The New Poor — In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt” Oh, the New York Times is finally starting to notice law schools that are profiteering […] -
Clarence Thomas, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Mrs. Clarence Thomas Hosts Her Own Tea Party
When we’ve heard in the past about Virginia Lamp Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, it was usually as his fellow RV road warrior. But Ginni Thomas is now much more high-profile. The Los Angeles Times reported this weekend that she has launched Liberty Central Inc., a conservative non-profit inspired by the Tea Party […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket 03.15.10
* Justice John Paul Stevens hedges on retiring this year. [New Yorker via BLT] * If Obama were to follow in Roosevelt’s footsteps in his battle with the Supreme Court, he would propose upping The Nine to The Fifteen… [New York Times] * …and the battle is definitely not over yet. [Washington Post] * The […]
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Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Digital Rights
The long arm of the law should not extend to the middle finger. — Ira P. Robbins, criminal law professor at American University – Washington College of Law -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 03.14.10
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. National jobless news seems to be business as usual. First-time jobless claims fell by 6,000 last week to 462,000. That contributed to a net gain […] -
Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: Former Model Doesn't Want to be Lusted After
A former swimsuit model is offended at the suggestion that men would use her photograph as masturbatory material. And now she’s filing a $10 million lawsuit against NBC Universal for “great humiliation, embarrassment, emotional distress, shame, mortification and injury to her reputation and career” because an old photo of her was used as such fodder […]