California
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California, John Edwards, John Paul Stevens, Libraries / Librarians, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Prisons
Morning Docket: 05.31.11
* Opponents of “three strikes” hope that the SCOTUS decision requiring California to reduce its prison population by 33,000 inmates will help them to repeal three strikes. Four balls, standing eight count, and wicked googly are among sports terms vying to take its place. [San Diego Union Tribune] * A law firm librarian in New […]
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Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, California, Prisons, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Reinhardt, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Upholds Order Requiring Release of Thousands of Prisoners
It’s late May, so we’re entering the home stretch of the Supreme Court Term. Over the next few weeks, the Court will be handing down opinions in the most contentious, closely divided cases. One such opinion came down today: Brown v. Plata (formerly Schwarzenegger v. Plata). In this high-profile case, a three-judge district court issued […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Bar Exams, California, Law Schools
Recent Bar Exam Results: California
California bar exam results will be made available to applicants tonight, at 6 PM (PDT). The pass list will be made public on Sunday at 6 AM (PDT). Congratulations to all of you who passed, and better luck next time — and next time, and next time — to those of you who failed. Here’s […]
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California, Entertainment Law, Job Searches
If You Want A Job In This Economy, Better Work On Your Physical Strength
I think we’re all used to the really terrible jobs being offered to recent law graduates these days. The last one we did was so bad that the school that posted it had to apologize. In this market, you need to have something especially terrible about your job listing to get our attention. Today’s bad […] -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, California, Gunderson Dettmer, Money, Silicon Valley
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: West Coast Action
We recently reported on Wilson Sonsini restoring associate base salaries to pre-recession levels. Wilson Sonsini associates in five major offices — New York, Palo Alto, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. — are now paid on what might be called the New York market scale or the $160K scale (a scale I’ve committed to […] -
California, Kids, Law Schools, New York Times
In Five Years, Will the Endless March Of New Lawyers Finally Stop?
A reader sent in an encouraging list from the New York Times. Well, encouraging to me and others who want the demand for legal education to decrease to levels the legal economy can sustain. According to this story, the Times asked 18 high school seniors in San Diego to predict their futures over the next […] -
California, Cars, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Rudeness
Law License Plates: Don't Drink and Drive (With This License Plate)
Based on the overwhelming number of submissions we’ve received — please don’t be offended if yours doesn’t make the cut — it seems you’re enjoying our recent series on legally-themed license plates. You can send in your photos via email (subject line: “Vanity License Plate”). Here’s one license plate we received that’s not explicitly law-related. […] -
California, Cars, Law Schools, Rudeness
Law License Plates: Legalese (and More School Spirit)
We continue our series on law-related license plates that are interesting or amusing. We’re still taking submissions, for a contest we will eventually hold; please submit your pictures via email (subject line: “Vanity License Plate”). One way of communicating your status as an attorney to your fellow motorists is by dropping some mad legal knowledge […] - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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California, Lawsuit of the Day, Weirdness
Jokes / Torts 101: A California Woman, A Banana Peel, And...?
Legendary humorist Charlie Chaplin was once asked to describe “funny.” He famously responded: “You take a woman walking down the sidewalk. Show the audience a banana peel in front of her. Everyone knows that she is going to step on the banana peel and do a pratfall. At the last instant, she sees the banana […] -
California, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Politics
Musical Chairs: Ex-Congressman Tapped as New Dean of Chapman Law
Being a law school dean is a pretty sweet gig. Sure, it comes with headaches and stresses: overseeing ego-filled law school faculties, sucking up to rich alumni, and fending off whiny students. But at least law deans are paid very well for their trouble. Their positions are extremely prestigious, too. It’s not surprising, then, that […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, California, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: O'Melveny Highlights Difficulties for West Coast Firms
Tipsters report that O’Melveny & Myers has announced its bonuses. Tipsters are underwhelmed. Tipsters in California are starting to ask: “What about our spring bonuses?” As we mentioned last night, spring bonuses are sweeping the nation. We’re actually working on a spring bonus update (pending confirmation of a few things). If you have information and […] -
Biglaw, California, Job Searches, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Rankings, U.S. News
Quote of the Day: Is that the right cutoff? Discuss.
U.S. News & World Report issues rankings of law schools. The most prestigious law firms recruit from only the top-ranked schools. I am not endorsing this; it is just a fact of life. If you are good enough to get admitted to one of the schools ranked in the Top 50, and you are in […] -
Bar Exams, Boalt Hall, California, Law Schools, Loyola Law School
California Bar Exam Results By Law School: Open Thread
Here in New York, home to Above the Law and Breaking Media, we’re gearing up for more epic snow. Those of you lucky enough to live in the Golden State might have to deal with earthquakes, mudslides, and obnoxious celebrities, but at least you don’t have to deal with blizzards. Falling snow? Not in sunny […]
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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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…
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…
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Advertising, Biglaw, California, Career Center, Partner Issues, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For - California (Part 2)
The East Coast is freezing right now. New York is bitterly cold, and D.C. is even getting snow. So let’s head out to the West Coast, where the weather is warmer — and where associates are thrilled to be working with some superb partners. Earlier this week, we presented ten California partners whom our readers […] -
Advertising, Biglaw, California, Career Center, Partner Issues, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For - California (Part 1)
Welcome to the third installment of our Top Partners to Work For series, as selected by our readers (see last week’s posts here and here). In the first two weeks, we covered New York and D.C.; this week, we head west, and cruise on over to sunny California. The ten partners we highlight today work […] -
Biglaw, California, Silicon Valley, Skaddenfreude, Staff Layoffs
Skadden Takes Its Heart from San Francisco -- and Closes Its S.F. Office
Late last week, word started to leak out that Skadden Arps plans to close its San Francisco office, by the end of June 2011. A meeting was held on Friday where the closure was announced to the office. The S.F. office is essentially being folded into the firm’s Silicon Valley outpost. Some of the initial […] -
Bar Exams, California
California Bar Results: Open Thread
I’ll say this for California: at least they didn’t accidentally release the results of the July 2010 bar exam and then lie about it for a whole day. Apparently, the good people at the Nuts & Boalts blog have been acting like there’s been an early release… and then Rickrolling people who click on it. […] -
California, Crime, Drugs, Marijuana
The Governator Terminates Misdemeanor Criminal Charges for an Ounce of Pot Possession
It’s Friday, many of you ain’t got no job, and California is going to let you get high! Don’t let the somewhat tepid headline fool you. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took a major step towards decriminalizing marijuana possession today. If you don’t smoke up, the news can seem kind of minor. Schwarzenegger signed a bill that […] -
California, Cars, Job Searches
UCLA Law Offers Most Depressing Job to a Law Student (2010 Edition)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a true contestant for the title of most depressing job offered to a law student. Sure, there have been a lot of jobs that offer $10 an hour, or even $0 an hour, for legal work. But at least those jobs were offering the opportunity to put long […] -
Bad Ideas, Bar Exams, California
A Lasting Impression from the California Bar
Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said ‘We are all just prisoners here, of our own device’ And in the master’s chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast For many takers of the bar exam, the ordeal […]