Are you a superstar or a team player? When it comes to law blogs, the question is: do you have your own blog, or are you part of a team that writes a group blog? With over 45% of the Am Law 200 now using blogs, amid mounting evidence that blogs bring both publicity and […]
Kaplan, the prominent test prep company, conducts an annual survey of law school admissions officers. This year, those admissions people expect to be swamped by even more people clamoring to get into law school. Here’s the stat from Kaplan’s press release: Law School Applications Continue to Climb: 56% predict an increase in applications this year, […]
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
* The 9th Circuit ruled yesterday that prisoners held by the C.I.A. in overseas prisons could not sue over alleged torture because the lawsuit might expose government secrets. Secrets like, how the government tortures prisoners. [Associated Press] * Does punishable mean “able to be punished” and is Miguel Tejada the proper precedent? The answers to […]
It’s that time of the year again: the results for the August administration of the MPRE have been released! No emails have been sent out yet, but you can log on to the MPRE Services website and check your score. How future lawyers can be tested on their ethics in a multiple choice format is […]
* Which four firms do in-house counsel fear the most? [Law 360] * Professor Orin Kerr offers a more concise version of my analysis from yesterday of politics and Supreme Court clerk hiring, viewing the issue as a principal-agent problem. [Volokh Conspiracy via Instapundit] * Speaking of the principal-agent problem, Ted Frank explores it in […]
To be arrested with drugs at Burning Man means you’re either hideously stupid, or just extremely unlucky. Either way it sucks to be you. For the uninitiated, the Burning Man Festival is an annual gathering that happens in the Northern Nevada desert the week before Labor Day, culminating with the cremation of a giant wooden […]
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Lawyers are terrified of outsourcing, and there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of movement in the legal industry towards keeping entry level legal jobs in America. But outsourcing didn’t start with low level legal work, and so maybe the reaction against it won’t start in the legal field either. Maybe the counter movement […]
Back in February of this year, the National Association for Law Placement (NALP) announced a minor change to its recruiting guidelines. I was underwhelmed. New associates are graduating law school in a terrible job market, firms are sick of being forced to hire people two years before they know their staffing needs, and NALP is […]
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Ed. note: The following piece was authored by The Legal Tease, of Sweet Hot Justice fame. Check out her other musings from Sweet Hot Justice here. Quick question: You’re a single guy, let’s say in your late twenties to mid-thirties, with a decent job. Given the choice between the following two single women to date, […]
Legal work isn’t slowing down, and the firms that win won’t be the ones working harder — they’ll be the ones working smarter.
It’s time to announce the winner of our most recent caption contest….
Ed. note: This post is written by Will Meyerhofer, a Biglaw attorney turned psychotherapist, whom we profiled. A former Sullivan & Cromwell attorney, he holds degrees from Harvard, NYU Law, and The Hunter College School of Social Work. He blogs at The People’s Therapist. One of my clients told me last week he went to […]
If you are a client looking for a lawyer, what will be the biggest influence on how much you pay that lawyer per hour? The excellence of the lawyer you hire? Please; pull yourself up off the ground and get back on your turnip truck. Doesn’t it make more sense to pay more for lawyers […]
* Those big phonies on the parole board denied Mark David Chapman again. [New York Post] * Mayor Bloomberg does not believe consistency with regard to the First Amendment is the hobgoblin of little men minds. [Wall Street Journal] * BP magnanimously shares blame for oil spill. Apparently, greed is not always good. [Business Week] […]
The last two New York Attorneys General have become wildly famous. Everybody knows who Eliot Spitzer is, mostly for the wrong reasons. Before he became Governor Client Number 9, Eliot Spitzer attained the title “Sheriff of Wall Street.” Meanwhile, the current NYAG Andrew Cuomo was already famous because of his father. As AG, Cuomo has […]