* David J. Stern continues being awesome. [Reuters] * What the legal landscape looks like for the Rutgers Two. [NPR] * Statistics suggest that the economic downturn has led to less diversity in law firms. Because looking carefully over your shoulder before you tell a racist joke at lunch is a luxury that few firms […]
On Monday, I shared my Halloween costume with all of you. Now, after days of cajoling and pleading, we’ve finally come up with a few people brave enough to enter our legally themed Halloween costume contest. I’m not throwing myself into the ring, but if you recall the lady nice enough to pose with me […]
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
It has been a tough month for Dallas. The Cowboys are embarrassing, Cliff Lee spit the bit, and the Rangers couldn’t win the World Series. Hopefully today’s bar results will give some Dallas-area would-be lawyers a big boost. And if they failed the bar, they can always work for Jerry Jones: he seems to like […]
* CPAs and lawyers should make love not war. [Going Concern] * The problem with work/life balance is all the people happily willing to spend all of their time working while having no life. [The Careerist] * Being the last lawyer in means you risk being the first lawyer out. [The Lawyerist] * For a […]
Any person who ever thought it would be noble to be a lawyer remembers the classic scene from To Kill A Mockingbird where poor Mr. Cunningham goes to pay Atticus Finch for his legal services: Mr. Cunningham: Mr. Finch, I don’t know when I’ll ever be able to pay you. Atticus: Let that be the […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius associates: your long nightmare might be at an end. All the way back in July of 2009, MLB became one of the first firms to announce its intention to do away with lockstep compensation. Back then, the firm was still in the teeth of the recession, it had canceled its 2010 […]
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 a bad news day in Brooklyn. This morning, the class of 2010 made Brooklyn Law look foolish. Now we’ve received reports that the Brooklyn DA’s Office has laid off 13 attorneys and two staffers in the past week. It’s big news, especially for law students and private practice attorneys who think that working for […]
The people whose stories wind up in ATL’s pages aren’t always psyched to be here. Long-time readers may remember my getting punk’d by a Boston law school student upset about his email flame war with a female lawyer going viral. The law student placed my photo and cell phone number in a Craigslist Casual Encounters […]
The class of 2010 at Brooklyn Law School decided to give themselves a plaque in the library for their class gift. Given the state of the legal job market, I’m impressed that this class gift phenomenon still exists, it’s a testaments to man’s ability to look on the bright side of getting screwed with your […]
To borrow a line from Sharon Nichols, I judge you when you have a poor website. Like it or not, we live in a superficial world where your website is judged on a daily basis — and not just by me. Friends, colleagues, potential employees and most importantly potentially paying clients are all looking at […]
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
* The Republicans’ strategy to roll back Obamacare will resemble “death by a thousand cuts.” Sounds painful, but it’s much gentler than the other strategy they considered, “death by uninsured syphilis.” [BusinessWeek] * An assistant general counsel at the CIA asserts in a new law review article that U.S. law does not forbid rendition. I […]
To steal a line from Sports Illustrated, I must bring you this week’s sign that the apocalypse is upon us. Law students are struggling to find jobs; this we know. But what I didn’t know until this very day was that law students are also struggling to find the basic professional necessities. Like clothes. That’s […]
* As I tweeted last night, the Congressional subpoena power just got interesting again. [Gawker] * Hey, Colorado, I think you and I might be able to work together. Interesting work on the “personhood” issue. [WSJ Law Blog] * A small victory for privacy in Houston. [Instapundit] * The Commodity Futures Trading Commission brought in […]
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to [email protected] ATL, Here’s one that you probably don’t hear every day: I’m an associate and I frequently work with a junior partner (early 40s) who is married to a considerably younger woman. She and I have friends in common and we occasionally see […]
If you’re in Biglaw, chances are that not all of the first-year associates currently working at your firm are of the fresh-out-of-law-school-and-still-tan-from-post-bar-trip variety. With many firms just now welcoming back some Class of 2009 associates after a yearlong deferral, Class of 2010 associates have to wait their turn to start work in 2011 or 2012. […]