* The Feds are still interested in Barry Bonds. Not the Nats, the Feds. [WSJ Law Blog] * When wrestling with the bimodal salary distribution curve, George Mason law professor Ilya Somin points out that the curve shifts rightward when you take into account yearly pay raises. Fair enough. But wouldn’t the curve shift significantly […]
Last week, we gave you a photo from Georgetown Law School of a bar exam studier whose performance anxiety appeared to extend to the bathroom. We asked for captions for the photo and you showered us with them. We’ve chosen our favorites, after the jump. Check them out and vote for the best. (We’ll flush […]
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‘Tis the season of summer program cancellations. Just don’t call them cancellations. Today we’ve learned that Dewey & LeBoeuf has “paused” its 2011 summer program in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston. You can really see the difficulty of the situation faced by Biglaw firms. Here we are in July of 2010, and firms are supposed […]
It’s nearly August. But at Harvard Law School, administrators are still trying to sort out what happened with Professor Bruce Hay’s spring Evidence course. Not that grades matter all that much at HLS. The most important part of an HLS student’s transcript is the part at the top that says “Harvard Law School.” Heck, the […]
We’ve had our first report of summer offer rates. The news comes to us from the cheesesteak city. Pepper Hamilton gave out offers in its Philadelphia office on Friday, and it did it with style. We’re told that the office’s 11 summer associates — 8 2Ls and 3 1Ls — went to lunch together on […]
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For some of you, the bar exam starts tomorrow. Your friends at Above the Law — and our bar-related advertisers, including Kaplan PMBR and BarMax — wish you the best of luck. If you’re looking for more review questions, check out our post from yesterday, based on Professor Laurence Tribe’s unfortunate incident at a Safeway […]
Federal agents played a little game of “To Catch a Law Firm Partner” last week. After a few weeks of online chatting with Samuel P. Logan, 45, they lured the Foulston Siefkin partner to a mall to meet the 14-year-old girl named “stazie” to whom he thought he had been sending naked photos. Instead of […]
As the Baby Boomers continue to age, we’ve been documenting their reluctance to gracefully leave the Biglaw stage. One would think that all these lingering old people would at least be a good mentoring resource for the younger generation. Kash suggested as much when we debated the topic earlier this year. But an article up […]
* A lawyer with an interesting business model in Florida: When a client didn’t pay his fees, he burglarized his home. [Orlando Sentinel] * Can you sue me now? Mobile phone industry association files a lawsuit against San Francisco over its requirement that cell phones have radiation warnings. [San Francisco Chronicle; Ars Technica] * Pentagon […]
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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. As August approaches, the recruiting process shifts from the summer programs, which are in full (relatively speaking) […]
Last Sunday, the eminent constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Westling, got stuck in an elevator at the Safeway supermarket in Georgetown. (Professor Tribe is currently in D.C. to serve in the administration of his former student from Harvard Law School, Barack Obama.) Read the (rather humorous) write-up of Tribe’s elevator incident […]
After a 16-year-long fight, Valentino has prevailed in litigation with Florence Fashions over the use of the Valentino trademark. Read an interesting interview with Valentino’s lawyer, Anne Sterba, and comment — over at our sister site, Fashionista. Valentino Wins 16-Year Trademark Case; Valentino’s Lawyer Explains the Ruling [Fashionista]
The internet is on fire today. The purported contract between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and random New York resident Paul Ceglia has hit the worldwide web. We’ve written about Ceglia’s claims to 84% of Facebook before. But now that people have actually seen the document, everybody wants to talk about it. I even ended up […]
* How long before the anonymous lawyer behind Ask a Korean! is outed? We think it’ll be faster than you can say dolsot bibimbap. [City Room/New York Times] * MBE mash-up to entertain bar studiers. [YouTube] * More exam-inspired music, but this will entertain and educate. [YouTube] * If you got a gene in a […]