Laurie Lin
Laurie Lin is a former D.C. Biglaw associate now living in Charleston, West Virginia with her husband and sons. You can also find her on the Charleston Gazette-Mail op-ed page or West Virginia Public Broadcasting's "Front Porch" podcast. Follow her on Twitter (@wvpundette) or send wedding-related tips to her at leww.tips@gmail.com.
Posts by Laurie Lin
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Cardozo Law School, Howrey LLP, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 2.1: Cy For Me
Remember Lisa Loeb? She got married last week. She’s 40 and still wearing those funky glasses. Unfortunately, she didn’t marry a lawyer, so she isn’t eligible to be one of finalists. Here they are (only two this week): 1. Emily Rubin and Daniel Feldman 2. Leah Yoon and Cyrus Frelinghuysen Read more about these couples, […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.25: Plane-Spoken
Some of our friendly commenters frequently gripe about the high number of Rabbi-officiated weddings featured in this space. They’ll be delighted to know that only one of our three weddings this week is a straight-up Rabbi wedding. The others were jointly officiated by a Rabbi and a Mennonite minister and a Rabbi and a bankruptcy […] 
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.26.09
* Can law firms evolve? Because right now they look a lot like a T-Rex right after the Chicxulub blast. [Ideoblog] * Here’s a chart showing how California law schools stacked up against each other in terms of bar passage rates. Berkeley < USC & UCLA. This would never have happened at "Boalt." [TaxProf Blog] […]
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Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Partner Profits
Buchanan Ingersoll: Timing is Everything
Everybody has to sacrifice to survive in the new “economy” (if that’s what we’re still calling it). Today, we’ve received word that Buchanan Ingersoll could be asking partners to shoulder part of the burden. A tipster explains: Buchanan Ingersoll was not able to pay nonequity partners any of their holdback at year end and equity […] -
Death Penalty, Lawyer of the Day
Death Row Inmate Wants to be on Florida Supreme Court
One thing that has become clear to me since I started at ATL is that people in prison have a lot of time on their hands. A lot of time. We regularly receive handwritten letters from pro se litigants complaining that the judge who sent them to prison is “above the law.” Michael Lambrix has […] -
Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs: Goodwin Procter's Gains or MoFo's Losses?
Two big name rainmakers are leaving Morrison & Foerster for Goodwin Procter. According to a Goodwin Procter email: Goodwin Procter announced today a major expansion of its Financial Services Group with the addition of two nationally-recognized attorneys, Robert M. Kurucza and Marco E. Adelfio. Kurucza joins as co-chair of the firm’s Financial Services Group. Both […] -
No Offers, Summer Associates
Open Thread: It's Going to be an Interesting Summer
The summer of 2009 should be very different from past summers of fun and excess. Many are expecting this summer to be a twelve week (or ten week, or eight week) “job interview” that current Biglaw associates didn’t really have to go through. This shouldn’t come as a galloping shock to A) regular ATL readers, […] -
Lawyer of the Day, Regent University School of Law
Lawyer of the Day: Former Regent Dean Guilty of Sexual Abuse
Maybe Stephen McPherson, former Assistant Dean for student affairs at Regent University School of Law, just likes working with young people. Really young people. The former Regent administrator pleaded guilty to sexually abusing children: McPherson, 39, of Chesapeake entered guilty pleas to two counts of forcible sodomy and two counts of object sexual penetration. He […] 
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Associate Bonus Watch 2008, Chadbourne & Parke, Salary Freeze
Associate Bonus Watch And Nationwide Pay Freeze Watch: Chadbourne & Parke
We haven’t yet gotten our hands on the Chadbourne & Parke bonus memo, but a firm spokesperson confirmed what the general numbers look like. According to the spokesperson: “Our bonuses are on Cravath, Half-Skadden, scale. Individual bonus determinations are based upon individual performance and pro rated for part time attorneys and attorneys who have been […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.23.09
* Today, there were layoffs at Choate. No, not that Choate (well maybe that Choate, it’s not like that Choate is Andover or Exeter) but the other Choate. [Boston Common Law] * Traffic stats of law blogs. Yay readers! [Avvo] * I wonder if I would understand this better if I had ever seen the […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 1.18: We LoVermont!
Last weekend, while most of you were lining up for the Inauguration, a few oddballs were elsewhere, engaging in nuptial activities. Obviously, pretty much every superstar lawyer in the country was preparing to report for duty in the incoming administration, so we must warn you that this week’s wedding announcements are a little short on […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2008
Associate Bonus Watch: Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins might be leading the charge for salary freezes, but that’s not going to stop the firm from paying out associate bonuses. Right? Latham is not a lockstep bonus firm. As a tipster explains it: Our bonuses are not lock-step- so those people working their tails off usually do end up doing better […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools
University of Chicago Law School The Latest to Change Fall OCI
Thus far, the University of Chicago Law School has been immune to the fever of grade reform. While other law schools bend over backwards to make the same level of education look better on a transcript, Chicago has held the line. But it’s not like U of C Law is just ignoring the economic realities […]
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Perks / Fringe Benefits, Rankings
Perkins Coie's Vegas Vacation
Yesterday, I mentioned that Fortune released a list of the Top 100 places to work. In that post I failed to note that Perkins Coie was ranked 82nd on that list. According to Fortune: A support staffer gave this impressive list of her benefits: $2,000 in technology flex plan allowance, $80 for wellness program participation, […] -
Cardozo Law School, Chadbourne & Parke, Harvard, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 12.21-1.4: Winter Thrill
The winter wedding announcements are often a prestige wasteland, but we’re actually quite pleased with the caliber of the couples we’ve been able to round up for the first 2009 edition of Legal Eagle Wedding Watch (which admittedly includes some entries from late 2008). Here are your contestant couples: 1. Bella Sewall and David Wolitz […] -
Cardozo Law School, Chadbourne & Parke, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 12.7: The Luckiest
In response to the many queries we receive from couples hoping to be selected for LEWW (yes, we do get them — mostly from grooms, oddly enough), we’d been thinking about drawing up some submission guidelines (sort of like the NYT’s). But we’ve got a better idea. Three words: pay to play. See, we’ve got […] -
Harvard, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 11.30: Softball Diamond
After another craptasticical week for lawyerdom, here’s your weekly dose of wedding cheer. Unfortunately, like many of the firms we cover on ATL, LEWW has been forced to make some difficult decisions. We had to show one set of newlyweds the door–entirely for performance-related reasons, of course, because LEWW doesn’t do layoffs. Here are the […] -
New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 11.22: Big Red Heart
If the photos of this week’s contestants look a little stiff, please understand that it’s because the NYT didn’t run pictures of any lawyer weddings this week, forcing us to Photoshop them from the attorneys’ firm bios. You’re welcome. And Happy Thanksgiving! Here are this week’s Legal Eagle Wedding Watch finalists: 1. Elizabeth Raizes and […] -
New York Times, Sonnenschein, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 11.7: Berkshires, Baby
Amidst all the depressing talk of layoffs and cold offers, here’s a little mergers and aquisitions news to brighten your Monday: Even in a bad economy, the wedding machine grinds on. In fact, we’ve noticed a slight uptick in the number of registries at Neiman Marcus. So how bad can things be, really? Here are […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2008, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Bonuses, Job Survey
Associate Life Survey: Bonus Points
Last week, our ATL / Lateral Link survey focused on when raises happen at your firms. But we’ve also been wondering about another prong of compensation: bonuses. In 2007, Cravath kicked off bonus season early, on October 29th, but it’s much more common for firms to announce in December. Indeed, this year the first major […]
