July 2010
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Biglaw, Fabulosity, Summer Associates
Things Are Looking Up: More Summer Associate Classes Get 100% Offer News
We feel like we’re taking magic Biglaw pills today and having hallucinatory flashbacks to 2006. The good news has been rolling in. Just today, we covered raises at Sheppard Mullin, and a 100% offer rate for D.C. summer associates at Latham & Watkins. And over at Am Law Daily, Zach Lowe predicts good things for […] -
Breasts, Celebrities, Crime, Jersey Shore, Reality TV
Jersey Shore's Snooki Is Not Above the Law
Some Italian-Americans from New Jersey end up handing down the law. E.g., Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito. And some Italian-Americans from New Jersey end up getting in trouble with the law. E.g., Snooki, the pint-sized, gallon-breasted breakout star of MTV’s popular Jersey Shore reality TV show. According to TMZ, Snooki — a.k.a. Nicole Polizzi […] - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.30.10
* Do you need an attitude makeover at your job? [Corporette] * More good news. Firms intend to increase summer hiring this year. [Am Law Daily] * The natural evolution of the “do not call” list. [Legal Blog Watch] * I wonder if we should all stop talking about the Arizona immigration law until it […]
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Caption Contests, Contests, Pictures, Reader Polls
Caption Contest Winner: Stalled
Happy Friday, Above the Law readers. Last week, we gave you this photo of a law grad at Georgetown taking a break from bar exam studies. Instead of cracking under the pressure, he was covering the cracks. We asked for possible captions for the photo. You submitted reams of them, and we chose our ten […] -
Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Munger Tolles & Olson, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 21 – 30 (2011)
We’re rolling through the Vault 2011 list of the “prestigiest” firms in the land, so that you can comment on what it’s like to actually live, work, and breathe those firms (when you’re not choking on all the prestige in the air). We’ve covered #1-10 and #11-20. Here’s the next round-up. Now it’s time for […] -
7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner, Trials
Quote of the Day: What Crawled Up His Robe?
I don’t believe you when you say just about anything anymore because I know that you will lie to a court any time it helps you. I know that. I saw you do it. I know you will do that. You have proven that to me beyond a reasonable doubt. — Chief Judge James Holderman […] -
Denny Chin, Marjorie Rendell, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 6.27 - 7.4: Circuit Circus
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch, like the rest of the nuptial media, is in a state of giddy anticipation over Chelsea Clinton’s upcoming wedding, scheduled for tomorrow in Rhinebeck, NY. We’ll be gobbling up all the juicy details as they leak out, just like the lucky guests will be devouring the vegan and gluten-free fare. Yum! […] -
Blogging, Social Networking Websites, Solo Practitioners, Technology
Social Media for Legal Types, Part II
Last week, Kash mentioned social media guru and attorney Adrian Dayton in a post entitled “Social Media for Legal Types.” As a follow up, I thought I would reach out to Carolyn Elefant and Nicole Black, authors of the recently published book, Social Media for Lawyers: The Next Frontier. I first mentioned these two in […] - Sponsored
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Associate Salaries, Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin Comes Back to the Light of $160K
As we’ve been trying to tell people, paying associates less than a $160K starting salary is just not something that Biglaw firms should be doing. Everybody got very excited in 2009 when they thought that there was an opportunity to keep profits high by squeezing entry level associates, but it turns out that pay cuts […] -
Summer Associates
Latham & Watkins: 100% Offers to Summers in D.C.
A week ago, we reported that Pepper Hamilton surprised its summer associates with 100% offers at a Friday lunch. Now this is a trend we hope catches on. And maybe it will. Latham & Watkins surprised its D.C. summers during a rooftop extravaganza, yesterday. A tipster reports: Last night (Thursday), Latham & Watkins’ D.C. office […] -
Clerkships, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: Into OT 2011 We Go(Plus information about SCOTUS clerk signing bonuses.)
Apologies for the tardiness. We’re a little late on this; we promised you a Supreme Court clerk hiring update last week. But we suspect that Above the Law readers, unlike the Clerk of Court at One First Street, are willing to accept a late filing. In an earlier post, we also asked for information about […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.30.10
* Health care bill for 9/11 first responders fails to pass the House. The bill failed to garner a 2/3rds majority. [Politico] * …And as the 9/11 bill went down in flames, Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) spontaneously combusted. You must watch the video. [Huffington Post] * No plea deal for Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-NY) on […]
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Blog Wars, Blogging, Law Schools
Christopher Stone Is Not Actually a Trojan Man
Gawker posed a very inflammatory question yesterday: How Did the Owner of a Barely-Legal Teen Gossip Blog Get Into a Prestigious Law School? The law school in question is USC Gould School of Law, currently ranked #18. Gawker commenters wondered whether this was a misuse of the term “prestigious.” The gossip blog owner in question […]
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Alex Kozinski, Bar Exams, Fast Food, McKool Smith, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.10
* Hans Bader of CEI is fine with the bar exam — congrats to everyone who just finished, by the way — but wants to ditch the requirement of graduating from law school. After all, “[e]ven students who seldom studied, and reputedly were on drugs, managed to graduate from my alma mater, Harvard Law School.” […] -
Federal Government, Minority Issues, Politics, Racism, Screw-Ups
Shirley Sherrod Is Coming After Andrew Breitbart
If you thought this whole Shirley Sherrod thing was just going to blow over, well, you’re not thinking like a lawyer interested in generating fees. Burned by Andrew Breitbart’s editing skills, Sherrod says she intends to sue. The New York Daily News reports: “I will definitely do it,” Sherrod said at the National Association of […] -
Bad Ideas, Bar Exams, California
A Lasting Impression from the California Bar
Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device’ And in the master’s chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast For many takers of the bar exam, the ordeal […] -
Layoffs, Malpractice, Money, Student Loans
Former DLA Piper Attorney Faces Lawsuit for Failure to Pay His Debts
Well, this is pretty much my worst nightmare. Legal Profession Blog reports on the horrible story of Olufemi Nicol: The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging that an attorney failed in bad faith to repay his student loans for a graduate business degree obtained after he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School […] -
Associate Advice, Cellphones, pls hndle thx, Technology
Pls Hndle Thx: No Service in the Club
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. ATL, Can you please offer your insight into proper etiquette for ring tones in the workplace? I understand someone may have an affinity for The Jitterbug in their personal life, but when did it become acceptable to leave your cell phone on […] -
Career Alternatives, Food
Career Alternatives for Lawyers: Open a Museum
Are you a foodie? Are you committed enough to the gustatory world to leave the awful taste of the law behind and start a museum about your favorite food? Wisconsin lawyer Barry Levenson was that devoted. Sadly, his favorite food is mustard. Levenson got a shout-out on NPR this morning for his National Mustard Museum. […] -
Advertising, Career Center, Job Survey, Shameless Plugs, Summer Associates, This Is an Ad
Summer Associates: Last Call
Ah, the end of summer. For many law students, this time of year ushers in the arrival of the fall on-campus recruiting season (or what’s left of it), the dreaded wait for a permanent offer of employment following graduation, as well as a new diet regime for those summer associates who took their firm’s “unlimited […]