By the middle of second semester of that first year, everyone saw the system for what it was. We were furious. We realized that statistically, because of the curve, there was no way for many of us to keep our scholarships. But at that point, you’re a year in. They’ve got you. You feel stuck. […]
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Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
The official title of the NALP conference panel that I attended on merit-based compensation contained a playful shout-out to Sarah Palin: “How Is That Performance-Based Compensation System Working for Ya?” The panel was originally supposed to have featured a representative of the now-defunct Howrey law firm. So the snarky answer to the question presented might […]
* I want to smoke so badly. Maybe tonight will be the night that I light up again, and then continue until I die. But if I do, that’ll be my fault, not the tobacco companies’. [WSJ Law Blog] * Mike Tyson’s face tattoo artist is holding up the release of Hangover II. Surely the […]
Here’s the question swirling through the blogosphere today: Should Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg resign now — because if she dies under a Republican president, it will be a disaster for every ideal she fights for? The question was teed up on the WSJ Law Blog this morning after an AP report noted that some liberals […]
King & Spalding’s willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients […]
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Yesterday, we devoted some coverage to the devastation down in Alabama due to the terrible storms there earlier this week. In the National Law Journal, Karen Sloan has an excellent report about how the tornadoes are affecting operations at the University of Alabama, including its law school. It appears that the storms affected the college […]
Many people, especially law school administrators, bemoan the U.S. News law school rankings. Sure, they have their pedagogical reasons for hating the rankings, but there are larger issues here. When schools drop in the rankings, heads tend to roll. Of course, law schools deans rarely admit they were ousted because of the U.S. News. But […]
It’s April 29. Monarchists have long circled this day as an opportunity to praise the vestigial structures of imperial domination. But this day means a lot to people who earn their fortune through work instead of birth. Today is a huge day for Biglaw associates. For many, today is the day spring bonus payments hit […]
I’m done whining about Facebook privacy issues. Everyone should know by now that Facebook and privacy are basically mutually exclusive. But every once in a while, someone does something stupid relating to Facebook privacy in a new, exciting way — like stealing a computer and posting photos of yourself on the owner’s page, or uploading […]
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.
* In Connecticut, going to grade school in a rich white neighborhood while black is now a crime. Brb, putting on my chunky racebaiting heels. [New York Times] * People in glass houses shouldn’t throw Air Jordans. A pair of new sneakers settled a wrongful death suit in Baltimore this week. [Baltimore Sun] * Florida […]
Ed. note This is the final installment in London-based journalist Alex Aldridge’s series of stories for Above the Law about the royal wedding of HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton. You can read the prior posts here and here. Well, they got married. Best man Prince Harry remembered the ring. None of Wills’ disgruntled exes […]
This is what you see in the law firm world. Law firms try to keep up with Cravath, but it might not be financially prudent. You try to keep up with Cravath, and then two or three years later you go bankrupt. — Dean Frank H. Wu of UC Hastings Law, discussing the legal profession’s […]
* Here are some first hand accounts from Alabama Law students about the tornadoes. Finals have been pushed back until Monday. [National Law Journal] * This post contains some notes on the tornado relief efforts, as well as information on where you can help. [An Associate’s Mind] * Skadden will make Forbes’s list of largest […]
Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Size Matters, one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. I recently saw the Whoopi Goldberg commercial for Poise and I wondered to myself, why would she take part in such an ad. Maybe I am missing something, but I think it is a bad […]