May 2011
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Alex Kozinski, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Contain Yourselves
LEWW is still coming off our royal wedding high. We’re not going to lie, people: As much as we love the legal wedding scene, we’ve never gotten out of bed at 5:30 to read about SCOTUS clerks tying the knot. But Will and Kate have flown off to happily ever after in their helicopter, so […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.03.11
* This article details how the killing of Osama bin Laden was legal. That old honey badger Elie says he doesn’t give a s**t. [Christian Science Monitor] * Former Winston & Strawn partner Jonathan Bristol pleaded guilty to money laundering charges yesterday in connection with Kenneth Starr’s Ponzi scheme. You know what’s a cool word? […]
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Advertising, Job Searches, Law Schools, Practical Law Company (PLC), Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad, Videos
ATL Webcast: Career Advice for This Summer (Part 2)Beyond Biglaw; advice for 1Ls; networking.
Above the Law recently produced a webcast, We Know What You Should Do This Summer, in which a panel of career experts discussed how law students can make the most of their summers. The panel was sponsored by our friends at the Practical Law Company, which provides law students with free access to its excellent […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.02.11
* This has to be one of the best law enforcement images from the past 18 hours. [FBI] * Twitter had the Bin Laden news before anybody else. But it was also causing jokes to get played out as fast as you could think of them. Still, I had a good night. [Not So Private […] -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Color Coded Productivity Computers
I almost don’t want to write about this because I know how many law firm managers and industry consultants read this site. If you are a person of any authority at an American law firm, or even if you aspire to be such a person, please stop reading this post. We’ll consider it an Above […] -
Alan Dershowitz, Associate Advice, Rudeness, Small Law Firms
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Five Tips for Dealing With Obnoxious Opponents
I have a temper. That might surprise people who know me casually, like my professional acquaintances. I work hard to keep it in check. Over the past 17 years as an employment litigator (representing companies), I’ve gotten better at controlling my anger. But it hasn’t always been easy. Because lawyers can be pretty adept at […] -
Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Student Loans, Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Are Law School 'Merit Scholarships' A Big Racket?
That’s the question essentially posed in a long and interesting New York Times article, Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win (which we previously mentioned on Saturday; yes, we do post on weekends). The piece is by David Segal, who also wrote a big and buzzy piece back in January, Is Law School […] -
9/11, Crime, Deaths, Pakistan, Politics, Trials, Violence, War on Terror
No Trial For Osama Bin Laden A Gift For All Americans
As you might have heard, United States special forces killed Osama Bin Laden. Let’s take a moment to be happy about that, but also to remember Bin Laden’s many, many victims. Thank God he was killed, not “captured.” If he had been captured, there would have been some kind of trial. Some kind of fake, […] - Sponsored
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Akin Gump, Insider Trading, John Dowd, Media and Journalism, Quote of the Day, Trials
Quote of the Day: John Dowd, Mr. Congeniality
I hate you, I’m not telling you a thing. — John Dowd, leading criminal defense attorney and Akin Gump partner, responding (or not responding) to reporters’ inquiries about the whereabouts of his client, Raj Rajaratnam. The jury in Rajaratnam’s insider trading trial is still deliberating. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Partner Profits
Inside Straight: How De-Equitizing Partners Can Undermine A Business Model
Last week’s Am Law 100 list revealed publicly a trend that partners at big law firms have been feeling acutely: The largest law firms have de-equitized partners in the last two years in an unprecedented way. In the words of one of the articles, “Equity partner head count alone slipped 0.9 percent last year, after […] -
Canada, Defamation, Drinking, Labor / Employment, Lawyer of the Day, Parties, Partner Issues, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment
Booty-Dancing Toronto Partner: 'I Was Falsely Accused'
Back in January 2009, a moot court after-party hosted by Mathews, Dinsdale & Clarke got wild enough to spark allegations of sexual harassment. Canadians do know how to party, eh? The “night of debauchery” has haunted David Cowling ever since; he was one of the partners accused of getting overly friendly with female associates and […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.02.11
* The Osama Obit. [Washington Post] * Adam Liptak asks whether the King & Spalding affair is a tipping point for gay marriage in this country. Any Scorpions fans in the house? [New York Times] * This profile of “court-appointed bloodhound” Irving Picard fails to delve deeper into the dog/man hybrid and its potential to […]
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9/11, Deaths, Pakistan, Politics, Violence, War on Terror
Breaking: We Got The Bastard
Osama Bin Laden is dead! The television people are reminding us that today is the eighth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished.” Which is kind of awesome. Because now it is. Not only has he been killed, but the U.S. has his body. God bless America. God bless the memories of the many victims of 9/11. Let […]
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Conferences / Symposia, LSAT, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Quote of the Day
Fun Fact of the Day: Surprising?
Performance on the LSAT is negatively correlated with networking ability. — Vice Provost and Professor Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley, at a panel entitled Beyond Grades and Scores: Factors Predicting Lawyer Success and Effectiveness, at the annual NALP conference (which concluded yesterday).