April 2014
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Biglaw, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Partner Issues, Rankings
The Biglaw Firm With The Best Brand In The Business (2014)
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Basketball, Copyright, Death Penalty, DUI / DWI, Intellectual Property, Non-Sequiturs, Sports
Non-Sequiturs: 04.30.14
* Donald Sterling may be banned from the NBA, but the recording that placed him on the outside looking in was captured illegally per California law. [The Legal Blitz] * If the NBA owners agree — as expected — to force Sterling to sell the Clippers, it could cost his heirs over $100 million. Let’s feel sorry that megamillionaires might be slightly less megamillionaires. [Slate] * The inimitable Charles P. Pierce with more on the horrifically botched execution in Oklahoma last night. Overlooked in the horror was the constitutional crisis that preceded it — where the very authority of the state supreme court was called into question. [Esquire] * After getting his client acquitted of molesting a child while drunk, a lawyer managed to get arrested for DWI, hours after the verdict. Amazing. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * The conservative argument for copyright reform. Seriously, at this point there’s no political philosophy in favor of lengthy copyright terms, so why can’t we change this? Oh, right. Media companies have tons and tons of money. [R Street] * UVA Law funds the first jobs of a bunch of its grads. David Lat weighs in. [C-Ville] * This story could just as easily be entitled “I’m a young Biglaw associate who lives in Williamsburg.” [McSweeneys] - Sponsored
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Boutique Law Firms, Guns / Firearms, Insurance, Politics, Quote of the Day, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Television, Videos
Shoot First, Ask Questions Later -- As Long As You Have Insurance
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Boutique Law Firms, Small Law Firms, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology
Episode 11: Work. Life. Balance.
Where do you draw the line with your clients when it comes to your availability? -
Biglaw, Headhunters / Recruiters, Job Searches, Law Schools
Anonymous Recruitment Director Answers Your Email Questions (Part 1)
Have a question about getting a job in Biglaw? Anonymous Recruitment Director answers many of them here. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Rankings, Student Loans
3 Things Wrong With Above the Law's Law School Rankings
Time to hate on the ATL Rankings. -
Google / Search Engines, Job Searches, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners, Technology
Back In The Race: Creating a Good Internet Image
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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… -
Law Schools, Money, Rankings, Student Loans
The Law Schools With The Least-Indebted Graduates
Which law school graduates have the least debt of all? There's a ranking for that! -
Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Environment / Environmental Law, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Supreme Court
Justice Scalia Botches Precedent Written By... Justice Scalia
How could Justice Scalia screw up describing his own opinion? -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Staff Layoffs
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Shaping Up For Summer
Which law firm just announced double-digit cuts? -
Law Schools, Privacy, Screw-Ups, Technology
LSAC's Major Security Concerns Could Put Your Personal Data At Risk
Just how safe is all the data you put on LSAC? Not as safe as you might have hoped. -
Attorney Misconduct, Basketball, Biglaw, Canada, Death Penalty, Election Law, Federal Judges, In-House Counsel, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Sports, Student Loans
Morning Docket: 04.30.14
* For the third year in a row, Skadden has topped the list of the Biglaw firms GCs love to pay, the firms with the best brands. Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins rounded out the top three. Congratulations! [PRWeb]
* A federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s voter identification law yesterday, noting that it “only tenuously serve[d] the state’s interest in preventing voter fraud.” Ouch. Sorry about that, Scott Walker. [Bloomberg]
* Hot on the heels of the release of the second annual ATL Law School Rankings, we’ve got a list of the law schools where graduates reportedly have the least amount of debt. We’ll have more on this news later today. [The Short List / U.S. News & World Report]
* It was kind of like the night of the living dead in Oklahoma last night, where an execution was botched so badly the defendant attempted to rise up off the table. That must have been horrific. [New York Times]
* Here’s an eligible bachelor alert: After being suspended from practice for six months for filming “upskirt” videos of women in public, this in-house lawyer has been reinstated. [Legal Intelligencer (reg. req.)]
* Poor Justice Lori Douglas. Not only are her kinky S&M pictures floating around somewhere online, but the man who took them — her husband, Jack King — just died. RIP, good sir. [CTV Winnipeg News]
* NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, a former Cravath lawyer, fouled L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling out of the league, but people are questioning whether his punishment was legal. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
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Law Schools, Rankings
The ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings: We Hope You Held Your Deposits
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The Above The Law Rankings
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Copyright, Law Reviews, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Tort Reform
Non-Sequiturs: 04.29.14
* Remember when I said it was a bad idea to drop off a drunk in Ireland? This is EXACTLY why. [The Independent (Dublin)] * Oh, Cooley Law School… don’t ever change. [The Faculty Lounge] * Republican tort-reform advocate settles overblown personal injury suit. Oh the irony. [The Hutchinson News] * Check that, this is even more ironic. [The Chronicle of Higher Education] * The U.S. Postal Service helped kill an innovative, anti-junk-mail startup. You could say a bloated government agency is to blame. Or you could say cutting off the Post Office and forcing them to fund themselves through Faustian deals with junk mail distributors is to blame. Either way, a great idea was smothered. [Inside Sources] * Indicted former Virginia Governor and transvaginal ultrasound enthusiast Bob McDonnell has taken a gig as a visiting professor at an ATL Worst Law School finalist, Liberty Law. Of course. [The News & Advance (Lynchburg)] * Do you need to be on a law journal to succeed? [Huffington Post] * Can you get paid for sleeping on the job? Good question. [The Spitz Law Firm] -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Television
Check Out This Law Professor Looking Like A Mad Scientist On NBC News
NBC News was not doing this professor any favors. -
Basketball, Biglaw, Kimba Wood, Minority Issues, Partner Issues, Quote of the Day, Racism, Sports, Twittering
Adam Silver v. Donald Sterling: A Tale Of Two Lawyers
Embattled billionaire Donald Sterling and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver are both lawyers; let's look at their professional pedigrees. -
Biglaw, Drinking, Parties, Summer Associates
Qui Tam: Summer Associates
Are you ready for the arrival of the summer associates? -
Bar Exams, Email Scandals, Law Professors, Law Schools, Rudeness
Law Professor Sends School-Wide Email Bitching About Grads Who Fail The Bar Exam
This law professor is absolutely enraged about the number of his former students who fail the bar exam.