May 2011
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Cardozo Law School, Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools
It's Hard Out Here for a Career Services Dean
The most important person in law school administration is the dean. That makes sense. He or she makes policy and is in charge of the academic and financial footing for the entire school. But who is the second most-important administrator? The dean of students? The head financial aid officer? I say that the second most-important […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools
Bar Review Diaries: Of Sunshine and Studying
June is just around the corner, the sun is shining, and many of our readers are hopefully enjoying their shiny new law degrees. Mazel tov! Unfortunately, the thousands of dollars you spent on three years of law school didn’t quite cover everything you need to pass that pesky bar exam. The ink on your JD […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Shameless Plugs, Summer Associates, This Is an Ad
Career Center: Tips for Summer Associates
The Career Center is featuring a special series this summer for law students who want to excel as summer associates and ultimately secure permanent offers. Starting today and continuing throughout the summer, we will feature tips to help you manage your assignments, juggle conflicting demands, account for your time, handle feedback and criticism, and much […]
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Contests, Movies, Television
Nominees Needed For Best Fake Lawyer Bracket
If you’ve been watching the NBA playoffs, you know that there’s a new lawyer show starting this June. Well, I’m sure there are 15 new lawyer shows on USA that will all be terrible, but I’m talking about the new one on TNT. So far, the promos for Franklin & Bash have been hilarious. I’m […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Money, New York Times
Not on the Partner Track -- and Maybe That's Okay
Today’s New York Times has a front-page story by Catherine Rampell entitled At Well-Paying Law Firms, a Low-Paid Corner. The article focuses on the phenomenon of “career associates” or “permanent associates” at large law firms. These lawyers are not eligible for partnership consideration and earn less than traditional associates, but they do enjoy a better […] -
Antitrust, Bar Exams, BARBRI, Ted Frank
Signing Up For, Or Objecting To, The BAR/BRI Class Action Settlement
Did you take a BAR/BRI bar exam review course sometime in the past five years? Or are you taking BAR/BRI now, having paid for it prior to March 21? If so, keep reading. As we recently mentioned, the deadline for joining or objecting to the proposed class action settlement in Stetson v. West Publishing Corp. […] -
Biglaw, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun
It's The Jones Day Dress Code
You just wonder if Jones Day could try recruiting adults instead of making a bunch of rules to regulate the kids they have there. Think about it: one of the defining features of Jones Day is its policy of secrecy regarding attorney compensation. The firm is worried about petty jealousies sprouting up between competing attorneys […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.24.11
* DSK did a very French thing and pulled out while getting screwed. I guess no one told him that being the Director of the IMF doesn’t mean you get to do to people what the IMF does to countries. [Wall Street Journal] * Career associates get to have “lifestyle” jobs at Biglaw firms — […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Antitrust, Biglaw, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Litigatrix, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, S.D.N.Y., Senate Judiciary Committee
Ex-Cravath Partner Turned Judicial Nominee Has Underwhelming Net Worth
As I’ve previously mentioned, one of my favorite parts of the judicial nomination process is the attendant financial voyeurism. Judicial nominees are required to make detailed disclosures about their finances, allowing us to learn about their income and net worth. For example, thanks to her nomination to the Supreme Court last year, we got to […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 05.23.11
* I might have stopped smoking, but I’ll never stop fighting against Mike Bloomberg’s nanny state laws that seek to turn New York City into a place that doesn’t tempt Mike Bloomberg into doing all the things he used to do. [CNN] * Tyler Clementi’s former roommate, Dharun Ravi, pleaded not guilty to a bunch […] -
Football, Media and Journalism, Quote of the Day, Sports, Television
Quote of the Day: A Fate Even Worse Than Playing for the Bengals?
There are very few people that change your life. Dick Ebersol changed mine. He brought me to NBC a few weeks after I was cut by the Bengals. He saved me from a life of torts. — Cris Collinsworth — an NFL analyst for NBC, who went to law school in preparation for a post-NFL […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, Politics
Senator Boxer Keeps Pressure On The ABA
I’m telling you, the tide is turning against the American Bar Association and the weakness the organization shows when it comes to regulating law schools. People are starting to figure out that major American law schools purposely mislead prospective students about post-graduate outcomes. People are starting to figure out that the ABA hasn’t done enough […] -
Baseball, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Shameless Plugs, Small Law Firms, Sports
Small Firms, Big Lawyers: Small-Firm Wins
I’m a huge Red Sox fan. (That noise you just heard were all the Yankees fans skipping ahead to the comment section. Don’t wait, guys. I’ll be right there.) This season began with the highest expectations, after the Sox won the offseason by acquiring superstars Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford and by rebuilding their bullpen. […]
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Drinking, Law Schools
Celebrating With Alcohol? Oh Noes!
I get that the legal profession has a drinking problem, if you will, but today we have an example of how a law school should not go about keeping young, would-be lawyers off the bottle. Imagine you are a 1L. You just finished your first set of finals of your first year of law school, […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, California, Prisons, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Reinhardt, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Upholds Order Requiring Release of Thousands of Prisoners
It’s late May, so we’re entering the home stretch of the Supreme Court Term. Over the next few weeks, the Court will be handing down opinions in the most contentious, closely divided cases. One such opinion came down today: Brown v. Plata (formerly Schwarzenegger v. Plata). In this high-profile case, a three-judge district court issued […] -
Breasts, Jury Duty, Ridiculousness, Sexism, Trials
Motion of the Day: No Law Against Having Big-Breasted Colleagues
Well, there’s really nothing else to talk about this morning. Jezebel reports that a defense attorney has written a motion objecting to the people seated at the plaintiff’s table. Well, one person in particular — a “large breasted woman” who is seated next to plaintiff’s counsel. Is there a law against having large-breasted women hang […] -
Biglaw, General Counsel, In-House Counsel
Inside Straight: Delivering Bad News
Several readers have sent e-mails asking for advice on how to deliver bad news to clients. Here’s proof that, if ye shall ask, ye may receive. Think first about the “bad news” that you’re delivering. You’re not a physician, so you’re not looking a person in the eye and explaining that he or she has […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.23.11
* Indiana’s ban on Planned Parenthood funding means a change in providers, not in services, for women on Medicaid. The only problem is that the new provider is a coat hanger. [New York Times] * Utah’s new law against being sexy is being fought by an attorney who looks like he just wants to keep […]
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Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Minority Issues, Racism, UVA Law
Is Johnathan Perkins Going to Graduate From UVA Law?
UPDATE (10/3/2017): We now know much more about what happened to Johnathan Perkins back in 2011 than we did at the time, and it majorly changes how he and the situation should be viewed. See this new story, Was UVA Law Alum Johnathan Perkins Pressured By The FBI Into Recanting His Account Of Racial Profiling? […] -
Judge of the Day, Shopping, State Judges
What's Wrong With Three-Hour Lunches and Shopping at the Gap?
Society has a deal with judges. We don’t pay them very well — but, in exchange for salaries that are much lower than what they could earn in the private sector, they get to do whatever they heck they want. And get to be addressed as “Your Honor,” and wear really cool black robes. One […]