November 2011
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Attorney Misconduct, Legal Ethics, Quote of the Day, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Quote of the Day: Baby Momma Drama
Because of your disdain for the young man’s use of the term ‘baby momma,’ you ordered that the defendant be summarily jailed. — An excerpt from a Judicial Qualifications Commission complaint filed in Georgia against Chief Superior Court Judge Amanda Williams, who oversees the operation of state’s largest drug court. Williams faces an ethics complaint […] -
Cardozo Law School, Job Searches, Law Schools, Lawyer Advertising, Summer Associates, Technology
An Interview With the 2L Who's Advertising Himself on Google
Yesterday we brought you the story of a 2L at Cardozo Law School who has taken out Google ads promoting himself, in an attempt to find a summer associate job. We reached out to Eric Einisman to ask him: What was he thinking? - Sponsored
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Football, Sex Scandals, Sports
Joe Paterno Better Lawyer Up
If they hanged Joe Paterno from a tree and gave little boys a bat and said "whack that man like a piñata," it probably wouldn't hurt as much as what's actually about to happen to JoePa. Obviously, we don't yet have all the facts. But just looking at the Grand Jury report should tell you that civil actions are coming....
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Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Partner Issues, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – Smaller Legal Markets (Part 1)
After making our way across the country, which included stops in New York, Washington, D.C., and California, the final leg of this Career Center series on the Top Partners to Work For will cover some of the smaller legal markets. Today we head back to the east coast to focus on Boston’s best Biglaw partners […] -
Biglaw, Gender, Litigatrix, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Women's Issues
Congratulations to the New Wachtell Lipton Partners
At Wachtell Lipton, which announced its new partners on Tuesday afternoon, three lawyers can give thanks for being named to the powerhouse firm's partnership. With profits per partner in excess of $4 million, they are the 1 percent. Who are the new WLRK partners? -
Abortion, Law Schools
Abortion: Exactly the Kind of Thing You Want to Talk About in a Bitchy Email
You know what's never happened? A rational discussion about abortion rights that started because a Student Bar Association president sent an email. Luckily, the SBA email about a defaced abortion poster that we're about to show you is so over the top that it's more funny than annoying.... -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel
Inside Straight: Who Are You Again, And What Are You Talking About?
I saw this all the time at law firms: I’d be in the middle of preparing to argue an appeal — reading key cases, studying the excerpts of the record, and thinking about likely questions from the bench. My mind was completely engrossed in what I was doing. And someone would walk into my office […] -
Defamation, Football, Harvard, Masturbation, Morning Docket, Pregnancy / Paternity, Sexual Harassment, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 11.10.11
* Herman Cain’s got Wood over all of these sexual harassment accusers. No, seriously. He hired Bryan Cave defector L. Lin Wood to handle his possible defamation claims. [WSJ Law Blog] * Sad and depressing old man news: Joe Paterno’s legal innocence was irrelevant. Instead of letting him retire at the end of the year, […]
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Law Schools, Parties, Romance and Dating
What Kind of a Law School Has a 'Man Auction'?
We recently found out that a student group from a New York area law school is holding a Man Auction this Friday. We hear that this event has gone off without a hitch in the past, but this year, the group has changed the name of the event to the “Cake Sale.” Maybe they got […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.09.11
* Joe Paterno’s legal innocence is irrelevant. [Toy Department / Baltimore Sun] * But there will be a lot of lawyering to do before Jerry Sandusky is brought to justice or clears his name. [Litigation & Trial] * Process servers: another job that computers will make extinct. [Lexis Nexis] * In Flori-duh, they think mens […] -
Advertising, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
A Big Thanks to Our Advertisers
We’d like to take a moment to thank our wonderful advertisers here at Above the Law: Chase College of Law Delta IBM Kinney Recruiting (sponsor of the Asia Chronicles) Lateral Link (sponsor of the Career Center) LexisNexis – eReader LexisNexis – Mobile Solutions LexisNexis – MORE Reasons LexisNexis – Public Records LexisNexis – Search Advantage […] -
Contests, Holidays and Seasons, Reader Polls
2011 Legally Themed Halloween Costume Contest Winner
The voting for the best legally themed Halloween costume was close this year. Very close. The contest pitted a group against a couple. It pitted NYU Law against the University of Minnesota Law School — Big City v. Heartland. And when all the votes were counted, the final margin was seven votes, out of over […] -
Conferences / Symposia, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Travel / Vacation
House Rules: The Mile-High Club
I recently spent a week in Denver over two days (“ba dum bum”). The day I arrived, the temperature hit a record high of 80 degrees, and it snowed several inches the next evening. I was supposed to be attending (and enjoying) the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Annual Meeting, but instead, I was frantically trying […]
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Email Scandals, Law Schools, LSAT, Quote of the Day
Quotes of the Day: Quite Ingenious -- and Quite Busted
After reading our Quote of the Day, you might get an inkling as to the reason why Paul Pless, former dean of admissions at the University of Illinois College of Law, no longer has a job there.... -
Antitrust, Deaths, Litigators, Partner Issues
Morgan Lewis Partner Passes Away in Office
From all indications, Mark P. Edwards, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius who died at his desk on Friday, was one of those people who liked working in Biglaw. His friends and family will mourn that his life was too short, but hopefully they will feel that he died doing what he wanted to do.... -
Caption Contests, Contests, Law Schools, Pictures
Caption Contest Finalists: Have a Seat...
Earlier this week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo: Let’s have a look at what our readers were able to come up with, and then vote on the finalists…. -
Deaths, Drinking, FDA, Food, Guns / Firearms, Violence
Parents Try To Blame Four Loko For Son Getting Shot
If we try hard enough, I bet we can blame the entire collapse of the American economy on some Lehman Brothers dudes who had too much Four Loko. We’ve been following the successful crusade to get the original Four Loko banned because of its “dangerous” combination of caffeine and alcohol. Outlawing one specific mixture of […] -
In-House Counsel, Job Searches, Money
The Haves and the Have-nots
Will Meyerhofer explains what the job search is like in law school. In mid-September, he was talking with a client, a 3L at a top-tier school. “Here's how it works,” she explained. “There's the have's and the have-nots. Either you have a job offer, or you don't. If you don't, it sucks. You feel like an illegal alien.” Unfortunately, she's a have-not... -
Cardozo Law School, Google / Search Engines, Job Searches, Law Schools, Lawyer Advertising, Summer Associates, Technology
One 2L's Innovative Approach to Job Hunting
A reader alerted us to the following Google ad, which showed up in a Gmail sidebar next to a law-related email chain. Whoa! Is this for real? Is a second-year student at Cardozo Law School actually advertising himself via text ads on Google, promoting himself as "[a] great choice for Summer Associate"? -
Abortion, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Health Care / Medicine, Insider Trading, Lindsay Lohan, Money, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.09.11
* Yet another appeals court has has ruled that Obamacare is constitutional. Aww, can’t we wait for the other side to catch up a little before it goes to the Supreme Court? [Wall Street Journal] * How did it go for this controversial ballot initiative? As it turns out, the personhood amendment was so stupid […]