It's been revealed that some of the orange-shirted support staff at this Florida firm may have been protesting after all. Almost half of them have lawyered up. But what, exactly, were they protesting?
Dewey is creating a "chairman's office" of five co-equal members. Yeah, that will work....
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
The latest U.S. News law school rankings are out, and you know what that means. It’s time to allow students and alumni to weigh in on their law school and their brand new rank.
David Lat asked H. Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell about spring bonuses. What did Cohen have to say on the subject?
* Was the Obamacare case brought prematurely? Did the Supreme Court’s judicial intervention come too soon? Yesterday’s arguments before SCOTUS can be summed up in four simple words: “That’s what she said.” [New York Times] * Howrey going to get out of this one? The defunct firm’s bankruptcy trustee, Allan Diamond, is trying to decide whether he’ll be bringing adversary claims against the dissolution committee and its members. [Am Law Daily] * U.S. News is doing what the American Bar Association refuses to do: make law schools its b*tch. Listen up, administrators, because your next “reporting error” could cost you your ranking. [National Law Journal] * Armed with a treasure trove of new evidence, Facebook has moved to dismiss Paul Ceglia’s lawsuit. What does his lawyer from Milberg have to say? A hacker planted all of the evidence, duh. [Wall Street Journal] * Apparently Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s got hos in different area codes. He’s been keeping his pimp hand strong — so strong, that he’s been charged with aggravated procurement of prostitutes. [Bloomberg] * Broke your nose trying to walk through a glass wall at the Apple store and now you’re suing for $1M? That’s an app for that! It’s called common sense, and for a limited time only, it’s being offered free of charge. [Forbes]
Last week, a former attorney at a major asbestos plaintiff's firm sued his former colleagues. Joseph C. Maher II made some pretty intense allegations of lawyerly espionage that one blogger called a combination of the “lawyering skullduggery of The Firm with the medical malpractice aspects of The King of Torts."
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.
* This is a great debate among law professors about the Affordable Care Act. [PolicyMic] * Honestly, calling female law students “sluts” is just not a way to win an argument. [Stop the Harvard Law Hate] * Dear God, I don’t want go to prison. [Dealbreaker] * Dewey know the number for the lenders? [Legal Week] * Judges who behave like “supervillans.” [Cracked] * How many pictures of critically thin women can you solicit before it becomes wrong? [Fashionista] * With the re-start of Mad Men, I’m wondering if this season might be the best race-baiting seasons of television in history. [Slate]
Who does Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit think the law is for?
Would death matches be a more appropriate way to screen Biglaw candidates? Apparently, at least one firm thinks so. Here’s the photo for our latest caption contest....
Everyday you’re around others, you’re developing relationships, you’re saying hello to other lawyers, other business owners and the public. At some point in your practice, moving away from a business district may be OK, but why start out that way?
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.
Over the weekend, a Northwestern 3L was hit and killed by an allegedly drunk driver in downtown Chicago. This is not the kind of story we like to write here at Above the Law...
SCOTUS debates Obamacare: Day One.
It looks like one high school in Georgia wants to keep students’ memories of prom as heterosexual as possible. Let’s take a look at the allegations made in our Lawsuit of the Day....
Law school falls in U.S. News rankings, and the law dean gets fired. Coincidence?
An in-house lawyer receives an e-mail from a law firm with the subject line, "Litigation Highlights!" Does she pop it open? Probably not; it sounds like an advertisement. Is there a subject line that stands a better chance of success?