September 2010
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Associate Advice, Gender, Prostitution, Sweet Hot Justice, Women's Issues
Working Girls
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. Hey, you. Yes, YOU there, the one with the boobs. You’re a lawyer, right? Or some sort of Big Law type, at least? I figured. I could tell by […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.15.10
* France finally grows a pair, but maybe on the wrong issue in light of the Eiffel Tower bomb scare. [Washington Post] * K-Rod needs to learn how to be a better stalker if he’s risking jail time to text. 56 texts over 4 weeks? I text more than that in a day. [New York […]
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Biglaw, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Rankings, Small Law Firms, U.S. News, U.S. News Law Firm Rankings
U.S. News Launches First Official Law Firm Rankings
We told you this day would come. Way back in July 2009, we reported that the rankings behemoth, U.S. News & World Report, would soon be ranking law firms. In February 2010, we reported that the American Bar Association — so toothless in the face of U.S. News’s law school rankings — was worried about […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.14.10
* Professors Richard Epstein and John Yoo have some thoughts on the recent “don’t ask, don’t tell” decision. [Ricochet] * The rest of today’s links revolve around a common theme: advice. Here are some tips for associates negotiating job offers. [Law.com] * Here are some tips for young litigators. [Young Lawyers Blog] * Here are […] -
Biglaw, Kasowitz Benson, Litigators
Kasowitz Benson's Benovelent Dictatorship
We’re surprised that more people in the legal profession don’t know about Kasowitz Benson. The firm is relatively young by Biglaw standards — founded in 1993, as a spin-off from Mayer Brown — but very successful. Much of this success is traceable to the leadership of Marc Kasowitz, who continues to run the firm with […] -
Crime, Deaths, Murder, Suicide
Pillsbury Winthrop Associate Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
Clare Lenore Stoudt, a 35-year-old mother of five, was found dead in her home over the weekend. Stoudt was a tax associate at Pillsbury Winthrop. According to the ABA Journal, authorities believe that Stoudt may have been the victim of a murder-suicide: The father of her three youngest children, Reginald Van Graves, 49, also was […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Rankings, Student Loans, U.S. News, Vanderbilt
Most Schools Would Like Law School Transparency to Just Go Away
In July, we profiled the efforts of a group of Vanderbilt law students who are trying to bring more accuracy and transparency to the employment statistics provided by law schools. Their group, Law School Transparency, has requested all ABA-accredited schools to provide useful information to prospective law students — information that neither the ABA nor […] -
7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Cocaine / Crack, Crime, Diane Wood, Drugs, Judge of the Day, Racism, Sentencing Law
Judge of the Day: Rudolph Randa
It’s hard out here for an immigrant. Arizona has immigrants in the crosshairs, as we all know. Immigrants might also be unable to clerk for federal judges (or at least get paid for it). And when they commit crimes and get sentenced, immigrants are sometimes subjected to snide remarks by judges. The Seventh Circuit recently […] - Sponsored
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Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Feminism, Gender, In-House Counsel, Rankings, Women's Issues
Four Law Firms Make List of Best Companies to Work For(But Do Law Firms Still Discriminate When It Comes to Pay?)
Working Mother just released its annual list of the top 100 companies to work for. As we are (hopefully) coming out of the recession, it is possible that people might actually start caring again about family issues and work/life balance issues. This year, four law firms made the list. Before we get to the “winners,” […] -
Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Shameless Plugs, Summer Associates, This Is an Ad
Career Center: Feel-Good Firm Summer Programs
Want to know where the happy summer associates work? More importantly, want to know if the happy summer associates eventually turn into happy full-time associates? Click on the Career Center links below to find out. Bragging rights go to this Wall Street firm’s summer associates, who say they do substantive and high-profile work, but have […] -
Clerkships, Federal Government, Federal Judges
Clerkship Application Season: Clarifications About Non-Citizen Clerks
In yesterday’s discussion of federal law clerk hiring, a process that is currently in full swing, we flagged an interesting issue regarding clerks who are not U.S. citizens. A recent change in the law appears to bar paying federal government salaries to non-U.S. citizens (subject to some narrow exceptions, such as holders of refugee or […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.14.10
* Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Underwear Bomber, tells his lawyers to eat his shorts. [ABC News] * Lego loses its trademark protection across the European Union. What blockheads! [Bloomberg] * Lynn Branham has lost her tenure lawsuit against the 12th best law school in the country, but the real question is why anyone would […]
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Craigslist, Intellectual Property, Law Schools, Romance and Dating, Sex
Ode to an Adjunct Professor
Craigslist might have had to close down its adult section, but its Missed Connections area is still alive and kicking. And that’s a good thing, at least for one UC Hastings law student who had one stimulating lecture with an adjunct law professor teaching intellectual property. The lady was quite taken by the guest lecturer, […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.13.10
* Biglaw girls just want to have fun, but a good man is hard to find. Some follow-up thoughts on Sweet Hot Justice’s question, “Does This Law Degree Make My Ass Look Fat?” [Technolawyer] * This is what happens when Sabermetrics genius Bill James turns his attention to crime and punishment. [Slate] * Major business […] -
Biglaw, Blogging, Layoffs, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: But Obama Told Me There'd Be Jobs Here....
Cab driver: “Where does your daughter work?” Dad: “She just moved here to look for a job.” Cab driver: “Oh, she must be a lawyer.” — an exchange between a D.C. cab driver and the father of Elizabeth Killingsworth, an unemployed lawyer and Huffington Post blogger. -
Lawsuit of the Day, Religion, Weirdness
Lawsuit of the Day: Space Alien Followers v. Pope Benedict (No, Seriously)
A prophet, who now goes by the name “Rael,” once encountered space aliens who told him the secret of life. Later, his followers, “the Raelians,” set up an advocacy group to expose pedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church. But the group’s work was frustrated when Pope Benedict XVI (a.k.a. Joe Ratzinger) covered up the crimes […] -
Bad Ideas, Craigslist, Job Searches
Duke Law Turns to Craigslist to Fill Key Administrative Role
If I reported that Duke Law School was turning to Craigslist to find its next dean, the U.S. News people would issue “revised” rankings to knock Duke out of the top tier. Heck, if I told you that Duke Law was looking for a new 1L contracts professor on Craigslist, at the very least that […] -
Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Immigration, Job Searches, Law Schools
Clerkship Application Season: Open Thread(And a tricky issue re: non-citizen law clerks.)
It’s that time of the year again: clerkship application season. Here is the requisite open thread for discussion, where you can trade news and gossip about which courts and judges are hiring, which ones are done, which clerkships are great, and which clerkships you’ll hate. Pursuant to the 2010 Law Clerk Hiring Plan for federal […] -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms
Great Expectations? Small Firm Practice v. Biglaw Practice (Part 1)
I graduated law school in 2006 at the same time as a close friend. We’ll call him Brian, since that’s his name. Brian went to a top five law school; I went to a… well, not a T-5. He took a Biglaw job in Manhattan; I moved home to Georgia, where I ended up in […] -
Libraries / Librarians, Pets
Yale Law School Going to the Dogs?
I routinely make fun of the U.S. News law school rankings for taking into account the size of a law school library when ranking law schools. We live in a world where you can get everything online. Well, not everything. Leave it to the perennial U.S. News darling, Yale Law School, to come up with […]