May 2010
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Biglaw, Holidays and Seasons, In-House Counsel, Law Shucks
Ed. note: Law Shucks focuses on life in, and after, BigLaw, including by tracking layoffs, bonuses, and laterals. Above the Law is pleased to bring you this weekly column, which analyzes news at the world’s top law firms. May is normally a slow month for BigLaw. There’s generally no recruiting going on, as firms prepare […]
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Bad Ideas, Murder, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Just Suck. Don’t Take It Personally.
You don’t know how to ask a question. You don’t know how to offer things into evidence. You keep making stupid speeches. You keep saying you are good at this. You are not. I do not say this to insult you. – Justice Carol Berkman to Robert Camarano, a pro se litigant representing himself in […]
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ASIA GC OPENING AT GLOBALLY ACCLAIMED AND WELL FUNDED SMART PHONE TECH STARTUP, BASED IN SHENZHEN
Kinney is currently running an exclusive search for an Asia GC role at a well known tech start-up company, based in Shenzhen. This company has received significant recent praise for their new smart phone device in leading medial outlets, such as the New York Times, TIME, Mashable, Wired, Yahoo, and Forbes, among others.
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Elena Kagan, Money, Real Estate, Skaddenfreude, Student Loans
Open Thread: What’s Your Net Worth? (And how does it compare to Elena Kagan’s?)
* Professor Orin Kerr wonders: Could Roe be indirectly responsible for the religious imbalance on the Court? [Volokh Conspiracy] * Speaking of SCOTUS, Tom Goldstein suggested that an endorsement of Elena Kagan by Miguel Estrada (pictured) “has the potential to swing at least a half-dozen Republican votes.” Well, here you go. [PostPartisan / Washington Post] […]
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Law Schools, Rankings, Screw-Ups, U.S. News
Open Thread: 2011 U.S. News Law School Rankings (Fourth Tier)
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end We’ve come to the end of the U.S. News Law School Rankings. The Fourth Tier. The schools that are friends to those who will do anything in order to go to law school. Here is an open thread to discuss […]
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It’s official: NBC has killed Law & Order. Victim was age 20, and is survived by “Law & Order: Los Angeles” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (for all those who can’t get enough of child rape and murder). NBC’s motives are not known. It may been an act of jealousy by someone connected […]
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FantasySCOTUS: Enough About Kagan! What about the cases?
Need a SCOTUS diversion from the Kagan-Palooza? Look no further (although we will note that FantasySCOTUS.net correctly predicted Kagan would get the nod from the very beginning). The Supreme Court decided several important cases during the month of April, and in this post we will consider them, and see how accurate the league was in […]
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Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. Dear ATL, I’m a future 1L and I’m doing a little pre-law education worrying. I have to apply to the bar in my state in October for a background check. The Florida Bar doesn’t check social networking sites right now, but there […]
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Alan Dershowitz, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Knowing Your Clients
I start out assuming all my clients are guilty and all my clients are lying to me. That’s my operating assumption as a good lawyer, just like any good doctor would start out believing that the chest pain is not indigestion but a coronary, or the patient who says he never smoked or used cocaine […]
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3 Big Student Loan Myths Demystified
When was the last time you took a second look at your student loans? If you’re like most borrowers, you probably try hard not to think about them. After all, dwelling on your debt isn’t going to make it go away any faster. Or is it?
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Celebrities, Contests, Elena Kagan, Pictures, Reader Polls, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Potential, Supreme Court
The Elena Kagan Look-A-Like Contest: Who does she most resemble?
Solicitor General Elena Kagan is a woman to be respected. She’s a product of Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. She’s one of the Elect (OT 1987 / Marshall). She’s taught at two of the nation’s top law schools and served as dean of one of them. She’s America’s lawyer, and if confirmed this summer, […]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Update: ATL Not Required Reading at Michigan Law
The Washington Post has described ATL as a “must-read legal blog.” And it seemed that this was literally true for students in a course entitled “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” taught at the University of Michigan Law School by Karl Lutz, of counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. The course description on the Michigan Law website […]
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Too Clever By Half, U.S. News
SMU Will Pay You To Hire Their Graduates
It was only a matter of time. SMU Dedman School of Law is now officially willing to pay law firms to hire its graduates. The school is calling its new program “Test Drive,” which adds a nice layer of hilarity: Toyota wouldn’t pay me to test drive a Camry. Even the logo for this program […]
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Elena Kagan, Law Schools, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
You Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Law Degree to be on the Supreme Court
Now that the question of Elena Kagan’s sexuality has been settled (kind of), critical attention seems to be turning to her lack of judicial and litigation experience. Although ABA President Carolyn Lamm tells NBC that she doesn’t think “not being a judge is particularly persuasive one way or the other,” some Republican senators have expressed […]
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* Working overtime will kill you. [Boston Globe] * No more ethnic studies in Arizona? Cool, I thought European history was boring anyway. [New York Times] * Fewer birther requests in Hawaii? Cool, I thought Freedom of Information requests weren’t at all that important to our democracy anyway. [Washington Post] * The fate of Law […]
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Books, Harvard, Summer Associates
Summer Associate of the Day: Kaavya Viswanathan (Aka the Alleged Harvard Plagiarist)
* Fortune’s epic failure at being thankful for a favor. Or: Fortune’s epic failure at threatening copy”write” infringement. [TechCrunch] * Hey Law Revue types, get paid for your videos (if you win). [ACS Constitutional Video Contest] * Starved of case opinions from Kagan, we’ve devolved into trying to make judgments based on her sarcastic notes […]
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New York Law School Student Trying to Scalp Graduation Tickets
How much would you pay to go see graduation at New York Law School? Nothing? Don’t be so sure. What if I asked: how much would you pay to go see a very slow moving trainwreck where you had no moral or ethical duty to save any of the passengers? Ah ha, see, you’d pay […]
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Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Shameless Plugs
Quote of the Day: Required Reading
Students are expected to become completely familiar with and prepared to discuss in class the blog “Above the Law.” – From the description for “Law Firms and Legal Careers,” a University of Michigan Law course taught by Kirkland & Ellis of counsel Karl Lutz UPDATE / CORRECTION: According to Lutz, the course description on the […]
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