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Law Shucks, Layoffs
Last Week in Layoffs: 03.22.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. The jobs picture, at least the sliver reflected by the initial jobless claims numbers, remained stagnant this week. Initial claims decreased for the third straight […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Bonuses
Associate Bonus Watch: Mayer Brown (Chicago and DC)
Here’s some news that might interest the mutineers at Mayer Brown. The firm has announced bonuses for its offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. — and early word seems to be positive. We don’t have a memo; bonuses were communicated in person or over the phone. But we’ve gathered some intelligence from sources in both […] - Sponsored
New Report - Are Small Firms Achieving Their Legal Tech Goals?
In this new report of more than 100 professionals at small and smaller midsize law firms, iManage and Above the Law shed new light on… -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.18.10
* If a friend asks you for free legal representation that you don’t want to provide, decline and say it might ruin your friendship — and cite this article. [New York Times] * Two experts on national security and the war on terror, Ben Wittes and Jack Goldsmith, have a solution to the problem of […]
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Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 03.14.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. National jobless news seems to be business as usual. First-time jobless claims fell by 6,000 last week to 462,000. That contributed to a net gain […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 03.07.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. First-time jobless claims dropped last week, and the overall unemployment rate (U-3) held steady at 9.7% in February. But you won’t call that "good news" […] -
Law Shucks
This Week in Layoffs: 02.28.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. How many times have we heard this before? The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly increased last week, a sign that […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 02.21.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Here we are, a year after enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and still facing unemployment in the 10% range. That […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 02.13.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. In celebration of this law-firm-layoff-free week, we’re taking a break from reporting on the US government’s published unemployment numbers. We found something far more interesting […] - Sponsored
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Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 02.07.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Regular readers of this column are well aware by now that the overall unemployment rate isn’t a particularly good indicator, but it’s the most-commonly discussed […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 01.30.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. We’re coming down to the wire on the Law Shucks Lateral Tracker launch promotion iPhone 3GS giveaway. Read the announcement and the rules, then get […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 01.23.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Unemployment rose again last month, climbing higher in 43 states, which is particularly surprising when compared to the 36 states that reported improved numbers in […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 01.17.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. If you thought unemployment and underemployment (which does include people who become discouraged and voluntary stop looking for work) were arbitrary and capricious, you’ll really […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 01.09.10
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. The year isn’t off to a good start, but it’s the same bad news it’s been for a while. Focus is increasingly turning to the […]
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Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 12.20.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of modern American unemployment. In this case, […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 12.12.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. This recession is turning out to have all of the unemployment and none of the rebound of the recession in the early 1980s. Unemployment is […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 12.05.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Huzzah! Unemployment is down this week. OK, we’re not that excited. It’s not easy to get excited about the unemployment rate being "only" 10%. Week […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
Thanksgiving Week in Layoffs: 11.30.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Even though we’re going to see unemployment continue at the highest level since 1983, there are some promising trends. November payrolls are expected to fall […] -
Bonuses, Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 11.14.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. This week, economists missed on the good side — initial jobless claims fell by more than expected. The 502,000 applicants are the fewest since January […] -
Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 11.07.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. It was pretty hard to miss this week’s big news: unemployment crashed through the 10% barrier, hitting 10.2% in October – the highest level since […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2009, Bonuses, Law Shucks, Layoffs
This Week in Layoffs: 11.01.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Last week we wrote that jobless claims were higher than expected and that predicting anything with any degree of confidence seemed pointless. This week, the […]