August 2010
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BP, Ken Feinberg, Politics, Tort Reform
Elie on Fox Business: Do I Sound Republican to You?
Yesterday, after whining about law schools on NPR, I motored over to the Fox headquarters on Sixth Avenue. They wanted me on to to talk about a post I did a couple of weeks ago, encouraging oil-spill victims to take their BP money from the $20 billion fund being administered by Ken Feinberg, instead of […]
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Bonuses, Killing Lockstep
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Orrick
While expressing a commitment to maintain its new, incredibly transparent, merit-based salary structure, Orrick is moving its base salary back to reaffirming its commitment to $160,000 for first-year associates working in major markets. That’s right, the time for $145K in big offices is almost at an end. UPDATE: Initially spokespeople from Orrick termed the move […]
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INNOVATION IN ENTRY LEVEL RECRUITING
We’ve all heard how dysfunctional entry-level legal recruiting is: Inordinate expense, decisions made on the briefest of subjective impressions with opacity all around, and what do firms reap for all their efforts? Shocking attrition rates among junior associates. It’s time for a conference on what could work better, and this is it.
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Advertising, Biglaw, Job Searches, Job Survey, Shameless Plugs, Summer Associates, This Is an Ad
Career Center: The 2010 Summer Associate Survey Results
We’ve completely updated the Summer Associate Program sections in each of the Firm Snapshots with the 2010 summer associate survey results and the latest news. With on-campus interviewing already underway at most schools, law students won’t want to miss getting the inside scoop on the highlights – and lowlights – of each firm’s summer program. […]
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Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Public Interest, Southern New England School of Law/Umass, Student Loans
UMass Law School is Open: Law Dean Robert Ward and I Talk About It
UMass School of Law (fka Southern New England School of Law) is open for business. Orientation happened last week, and students started classes yesterday, at Massachusetts’s first public law school. As has been well-documented in these pages, I’m unimpressed. Put simply: there isn’t enough of a demand for new lawyers right now to justify a […]
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Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Family Law, Golf, Hotties, Sports
How Did McGuireWoods Land the Tiger Woods Divorce Case? With the Help of a Hottie….
Yesterday we covered the divorce of golf sensation Tiger Woods and his stunningly beautiful wife, former model Elin Nordegren. We noted that Nordegren was represented by McGuireWoods. Although McGuireWoods is a top firm, especially in its home state of Virginia, it’s “not known for its matrimonial practice,” as Nathan Koppel of the WSJ Law Blog […]
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Arnold & Porter, Crime, Kids, Lawyer of the Day, Nauseating Things, Pornography
Lawyer of the Day: Arnold & Porter Associate Accused of Kiddie Porn Production
Today brings bad news for Arnold & Porter — or maybe make that Arnold & Porno. If the allegations are true, the venerable Washington-based law firm has been employing a lawyer who made child pornography, starring a 15-year-old girl. A 41-year-old associate in the Tysons Corner office of A&P, Joshua Gessler, has been charged with […]
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Bad Ideas, Blogging, Food, Law Schools, Student Loans
Hunger Striker Revealed: Scambloggers Unimpressed
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on “Ethan Haines,” a law school grad who is allegedly on a hunger strike to support the cause of law school transparency. Today, Ethan has outed herself in USA Today, as Zenovia Evans (pictured). Here’s the USA Today report about her hunger strike: One recent grad even went […]
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Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments. * Free Willy? More like $75,000 Willy. SeaWorld gets slapped with major OSHA fines after the February 2010 death of a killer whale trainer. […]
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Bar Exams, Travel / Vacation, Trendspotting
Open Thread: Bar Trips and Summer Vacations
Hello? Anyone home? Right now it feels like everyone is on vacation, even though Labor Day is still two weeks away. C’mon, folks, this isn’t freakin’ Europe. Maybe some people are still on their “bar trips” — multi-week (or even multi-month) post-bar-exam vacations, to some exotic destination (or destinations; I have friends who have traveled […]
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Job of the Week: Better Hours, Better Culture, Better Future
Are you a junior to mid-level corporate/finance associate who has been contemplating a move to (or within) Washington, DC? In response to increased deal activity requiring “NY (or like-kind) trained” corporate associates, the Washington, DC corporate/finance market is experiencing an unusually high demand for your skills. Read more, and check out www.g-s.com.
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* What the hell can a zombie do with settlement money? [Legal Blog Watch] * The city of Philadelphia is trying to get $300 out of people in order to purchase a private license to blog. Yeah, a blog license. I’m now accepting rewritten histories that place the Constitutional Convention somewhere other than Philadelphia. [The […]
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john quinn, Quote of the Day, Trials
Tweet of the Day: John Quinn on Trial
(And a bit about the Barbie / Bratz case.)This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, given the acknowledged infidelity of golf superstar Tiger Woods, but now it’s official. Woods and his wife of over five years, Elin Nordegren, filed for divorce today in Bay County Circuit Court, Florida. The terms of the settlement were undisclosed. Their attorneys released a statement on behalf of […]
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Feminism, Gender, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Women's Issues
The Ladies of Law Review: Mostly Good News
We’ve been doing a series of posts looking at whether women and minorities are adequately represented on the mastheads of the nation’s law reviews. The subject is definitely a contentious one, and our posts have generated a high number of comments. Perhaps we should shift our focus to underrepresented minorities (URMs) — sayonara, Asians — […]
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Cheapness, Job Searches, Summer Associates
Firms Now Looking for Unpaid Summer Associates
It sounds like something firms would try to keep on the down low, through anonymous postings on Craigslist. But in the new economy, it’s apparently no big deal for law firms to ask career services offices to send over students who are so desperate they’re willing to work for free. The ABA Journal reports: Law […]
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Eyes of the Law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Theater
The Eyes of the Law: Justice Ginsburg in Chinatown
Alas, Justice Ginsburg wasn’t spotted slurping down noodles at Tony Cheng’s. Rather, Her Honor was in D.C.’s Chinatown for a theater performance, which is more her speed. (She also loves the opera, of course.) The Eyes of the Law celebrity sighting took place on Friday evening. Our eyewitness reports: RBG spotted at the theater! It […]
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Outsourcing: Is It Good for Associates?
There’s been a lot of negativity surrounding the first steps of Biglaw into the outsourcing market. For obvious reasons: the U.S. legal job market is soft, and recent graduates are terrified that their entry-level jobs will flow out of the country. And they’re probably right. If outsourcing catches on, the structure of a law firm […]
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Biglaw, Deferral Stipend, Pro Bono, Public Interest
Should Biglaw Deferral Programs Become Permanent?
With apologies to Langston Hughes, we have to ask: What happens to an associate deferred? Does he dry up, like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — and then run? Run, run — away from Biglaw. That seems to be what at least some deferred associates are doing, as reported last […]
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Ed. note: This post was compiled by one of our seven Morning Docket finalists. The finalists will be handling MD all week. As always, we welcome your thoughts in the comments. * New York’s umm…working class, weighs in on the mosque debate. [Metropolis] * Do lawyers really need new ways to ruin a marriage? [ABA […]
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