Our recent Career Center survey asked about starting salaries and annual salary increases at firms across the country. Over 70% of respondents indicated that their firms increase salaries during the traditional month of January. About 8% percent of respondents, including associates at this Midwestern firm, see their salary increase in February. Another 9%, including associates […]
For many law students, the path to Biglaw riches looks something like this: Step 1: Get into cheap law school. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit. A lot of kids fill in “Step 2” with the idea of trading up to a “better” law school after a successful 1L year. Now that finals have wrapped […]
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.
This morning I attended a very interesting panel discussion sponsored by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, Citizens United: Mountain or Mole Hill? Because the talk was sponsored by my rather left-leaning alma mater, I expected the answer to the question presented to be “Mountain” — and not just any […]
This weekend, Tressler law firm partner Daniel Formeller will welcome three new lawyers into his family: his triplets. Matthew, Kathryn, and Christina Formeller are graduating from DePaul University College of Law (a top 100 school). The siblings, 26, attended Illinois Wesleyan University together. When Christina, the youngest triplet, decided she wanted to go to law […]
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I can count myself as one of the thousands of students that had Elena Kagan as a professor. She’s taught at the University of Chicago School of Law and Harvard Law School. I had her in 2000 — before she became Dean of Harvard Law School — for Civil Procedure my first semester 1L year. […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
* Attorneys general are upset that they can still get prosties on Craigslist. [Courthouse News Service] * Dole wants a $2.3 million verdict over, um, defective bananas overturned. The fruit company’s lawyers accuse six Nicaraguan men and their lawyers of fraud in a lawsuit that claimed exposure to pesticides made the men sterile. [Associated Press] […]
Now that the fabulous Elena Kagan has been officially nominated to succeed Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, some folks have been wondering: What does the future hold for the unsuccessful shortlisters? Let’s consider them, one by one. 1. Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.): The brilliant D.C. Circuit judge — practically a “tenth […]
* It looks like somebody took a stapler from the wrong woman. [ABA Journal] * Should law students outsource maintenance of their online image? Why not? What’s a little more debt when you are already underwater? [The Lawyerist] * Almost a third of Biglaw women reported they’ve been bullied. [Technolawyer] * Goldman Sachs keeps coming […]
* Right now, the legal blogosphere is all Kagan, all the time. The first and most important question is: should you like her? [Gawker] * Lat and Kash demystify the confirmation process. [Washington Post] * I wonder who conservatives would prefer, Kagan or the Biblical Moses? [Washington Examiner] * Kagan’s record on hiring women and […]
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Over on the website of the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin has a nice post on how Elena Kagan deftly finessed the “gays in the military” / Solomon Amendment issue while serving as dean of Harvard Law School. It’s an interesting read; check it out here (via Dahlia Lithwick’s Twitter feed). Alas, these days Toobin is […]
A few blocks west and south of Orrick’s nice new offices, another law firm is planning to make a move: Proskauer Rose, currently on Broadway between 47th and 48th Streets. Proskauer’s move even made the New York Times: A prominent law firm is expected to sign a lease next week for a new home in […]
[Firms] are still being forced to recruit a year and a half prior to an anticipate start date, what other industry tolerates such a crazy hiring model? — K&L Gates Chairman Peter Kalis
It’s Elena Kagan’s “wise Latina” comment. Just as Court watchers dug up a controversial, eight-year-old statement by Sonia Sotomayor last year, they have unearthed a law review article that Kagan authored in 1995 when she was a young law professor at the University of Chicago. In it, she criticized the Supreme Court confirmation hearings as […]
We’ve written previously about Vanessa Selbst, a Yale Law Student and professional poker star. She outlasted 716 competitors at the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour event at the Mohegan Sun. Top Prize = $750K. Now that she’s won more than enough to cover her high-priced legal education, she’s taking a break from law school to […]