Chadbourne & Parke
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Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw, California, Celebrities, Chadbourne & Parke, General Counsel, Holland & Knight, International Law, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Murder, Partner Issues, State Judges, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 08.27.13
* If Biglaw firms wants to get back into a financial sweet spot like in their days of yore, they had better get in on these billion-dollar international arbitrations while the getting is good. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Women lawyers, please take note: your future depends on it. Apparently the key to making partner in Biglaw is to the get the backing of general counsel at big money corporate clients as a gender. [Corporate Counsel]
* ¡Ay dios mío! ¡Escándalo! Holland & Knight yoinked 10 attorneys, including three partners, right out from under Chadbourne & Parke’s nose to open up its new Mexico City office. [South Florida Business Journal]
* “If we actually got another million dollars going forward to spend on something, is the highest and best use to produce attorneys?” Even in a flyover state like Idaho, the answer to that question is a resounding yes when it comes to law school expansion. [Spokesman-Review]
* “A jurisprudence of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ does not properly safeguard [a defendant’s rights].” California Justice Goodwin Liu is raging against policies on race-based peremptory jury challenges. [The Recorder]
* “I’ve been doing Paula Deen in a strongly metaphorical sense.” The magnate of marmalade’s case may be settled, but that doesn’t mean sanctions have been taken off the table. [Courthouse News Service]
* The hefty price of killing? Following his acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman is now asking Florida to pay for his legal expenses, to the tune of $200,000 – $300,000. [Orlando Sentinel]
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Biglaw, BuckleySandler, Chadbourne & Parke, Choate Hall & Stewart, Cozen O'Connor, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Fabulosity, Fenwick & West, Kasowitz Benson, Money, Munger Tolles & Olson, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2013 Am Law 200: A 'Hiring Binge' Hangover
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Biglaw, Bracewell & Giuliani, Chadbourne & Parke, Cozen O'Connor, Fabulosity, Faegre & Benson, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Rankings
The 2013 Am Law 100: A Year of 'Slow Growth'
Which firms had the biggest revenue and the highest profits per partner last year, according to the latest Am Law 100 rankings?
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Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Gloria Allred, Military / Military Law, Partner Issues, Quote of the Day, Sex Scandals, Williams & Connolly
Quote of the Day: Potted Plant?
Who's representing whom in the fallout over the David Petraeus / Paula Broadwell affair? Every power lawyer in D.C., it seems. -
5th Circuit, American Bar Association / ABA, Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Department of Justice, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Election 2012, Election Law, Football, Legal Ethics, LSAT, Morning Docket, Real Estate, Texas
Morning Docket: 09.07.12
* It seems that the good people at Chadbourne & Parke won’t wind up homeless after all — or maybe they will. The firm is taking over Dewey’s old digs at 1301 Avenue of the Americas. How ominous! [Reuters]
* The Fifth Circuit gave Texas a stay on a decision that blocked enforcement of the state’s third-party voter registration law. Well, on the bright side, at least the Lone Star state isn’t getting its ass completely kicked in the courts this election season. [Bloomberg]
* While Jerry Sandusky awaits his sentencing on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, his attorney Joe Amendola is contemplating grounds for an appeal. Seriously? It seems to be time for yet another 1-800-REALITY check, my friend. [Centre Daily Times]
* Remember the Texas family law judge who got caught beating his daughter in a viral video? An ethics panel issued him a “public warning” as punishment — he didn’t even get a reprimand. Sigh. [Houston Chronicle]
* The DOJ has asked for permission to intervene in a class-action suit against LSAC that alleges an epic fail on organization’s part when it comes to accommodating LSAT exam takers with disabilities. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Bucky Askew, a former adviser to the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, has moved on to bigger and better things. He’s now a trustee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners. [ABA Journal]
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Associate Salaries, Chadbourne & Parke, Husch Blackwell, john quinn, Morning Docket, Musical Chairs, State Judges, Trials
Morning Docket: 08.03.12
* The Apple Samsung carnival returns to court today. I can’t wait to see what happens. We will probably have more on this later. [Bloomberg Businessweek]
* After being found guilty of judicial misconduct for misappropriating public funds, Michigan state Judge Sylvia James will be removed from the bench for the remainder of her term. [Detroit Free Press]
* London-based Herbert Smith poached six partners from Chadbourne, including the head of the firm’s litigation group, Thomas Riley, and Gregory Loss, who helmed the products liability group. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* San Bernardino is the newest California city to declare bankruptcy. The city apparently has over $1 billion in debt. I wonder if they had to cut their prosecutors’ salaries also. [Wall Street Journal]
* First-year associates at Husch Blackwell will see a nice salary bump this year. Oh boy! [Blog of the Legal Times]
* President Obama nominated prosecutor Pamela Chen to be a new judge for the Federal District Court in New York. If confirmed, she would become the second female Chinese-American federal judge in U.S. history, and also would be one of the first openly lesbian federal judges. [Metro Weekly]
* Republicans filibustered the Obama administration’s high-priority cybersecurity bill. [New York Times]
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Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Gay, Gay Marriage, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Tax Law
More Firms Stand Up For Marriage Equality
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Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Will Chadbourne & Parke Wind Up Homeless?
Chadbourne & Parke was supposed to strike a deal to rent office space at 1 World Trade Center, but that deal has reportedly died. The firm is currently housed at 30 Rock, but it can’t stay where it is. So where will Chadbourne be going? - Sponsored
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Abortion, Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Education / Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Police, Rape
Morning Docket: 03.21.12
* Here’s a reason why Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke might skip out on spring bonuses this year: millions of dollars worth of blowback from Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* And speaking of spring bonuses, a lot of people noticed that Sullivan & Cromwell seems to have misled associates. “Just because it hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it won’t.” Yeah, right. [Am Law Daily]
* Next up in the war on women: a senator from Idaho thinks that women are such strumpets that they might be lying their way into abortions by claiming rape. Because that’s not incredibly insensitive. [Washington Post]
* Apparently George Zimmerman, the man accused of fatally shooting a boy armed with a pack of Skittles, wanted to become a police officer. Looks like it’s time to kiss that dream goodbye. [Los Angeles Times]
* Give me your lunch money, kid! Teachers aren’t supposed to be bullying students, but that’s what one Baltimore mother is alleging in a $200K lawsuit against the city’s school board. [New York Daily News]
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Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Food, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, United Kingdom / Great Britain, Weddings
Morning Docket: 01.30.12
* People like it when the members of the Supreme Court agree with each other, except when the justices forget to tell them exactly what to do. Poor sheeple. [Washington Post] * If you’re wondering why you can’t get a Biglaw job, it’s because the firms don’t need you. Well, they probably do, but definitely […]
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Advertising, Akin Gump, Biglaw, Career Center, Chadbourne & Parke, Partner Issues, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – Washington, D.C. (Part 1)
Today we head into the nation’s capital to bring you six of the best partners to work for as chosen by our readers. These partners go above and beyond the call of duty, and do so while working at some of the finest law firms: Akin Gump, SNR Denton, Hogan Lovells, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, […] -
Advertising, Biglaw, Career Center, Chadbourne & Parke, Partner Issues, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad, White & Case
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – New York (Part 3)
Today we conclude our coverage of the top New York partners to work for, as selected by our readers (see earlier coverage here and here). These seven partners are proof that you can be a good partner who is good to associates while working at premier Biglaw firms like Chadbourne & Parke, Cadwalader, White & […] -
Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Rankings, Summer Associates
Very Happy Campers: The Top 10 Summer Associate Programs
A summer associate program at a top law firm is like sex or pizza: even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. That seems to be the conclusion of the American Lawyer's 2011 summer associate survey. If you're a law student trying to figure out where to spend your summer, you're probably asking: Which law firms came out with the highest scores?
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Advertising, Allen & Overy, Career Center, Chadbourne & Parke, Holidays and Seasons, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: A Working Holiday
We received over 1,300 responses to this week’s Career Center survey on whether you made MLK Day “A Day On, Not A Day Off” — for your employer. The majority of respondents, 66 percent, reported working on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Not surprisingly, the top reason for putting in extra billable hours was that […] -
Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Crowell & Moring, Ho-Love, Holland & Knight, Howrey LLP, Lovells, Patton Boggs, Rankings, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2011, Vault rankings
Fall Recruiting Open Threads: Vault 61 – 80 (2011)
With fall recruiting gearing up, and the lateral market warming up, we continue our annual series of open threads about the law firms featured in the Vault prestige rankings. These threads provide ATL readers with a forum to discuss the different firms and their various strengths and weaknesses. The end of the Vault 100 is […] -
Chadbourne & Parke, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Summer Associates
More Summer Associate Classes With 100% Offer Rates
Some summer associates are ending their summers on a very positive note. Quite a few firms have already informed law school students that after this summer fling, they’re interested in a more serious relationship. Since our last round-up of offices extending offers to 100% of their summer associates, we’ve heard from a few more contented […] -
Chadbourne & Parke, Layoffs, Parties
Chadbourne & Parke Wants to Party With Its Laid-Off Associates
Many large law firms realize the importance of maintaining good ties with their alumni. It’s the right thing to do, and it’s also the smart thing to do. Biglaw alums often end up in places where they can be helpful to their former employers — e.g., in-house, government, and the media (cough cough). Alumni of […] -
Chadbourne & Parke, Layoffs
Chadbourne 'Parkes' Eleven Deferred Associates in Unemployment
Things seem to be going relatively well at Chadbourne & Parke. Let’s review some recent developments. Back in January, the firm announced sizable raises and bonuses. In the same month, the Chadbourne & Parke Foundation generously contributed $100,000 to Haiti relief efforts. More recently, the firm’s well-regarded project finance practice snagged some high-profile work relating […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2009, Associate Salaries, Chadbourne & Parke
Chadbourne & Parke: True-Up Raises and Make-Whole Bonuses
Yesterday, reports came in that Chadbourne & Parke unfroze salaries. Then tipsters started telling us that Chadbourne didn’t just thaw out one class year; instead, they went all out and gave true-up raises — putting their associates back to the salary level they would have been at had the firm never frozen salaries in the […] -
Chadbourne & Parke, Law Shucks, Layoffs, Politics, Wildman Harrold
This Week In Layoffs: 10.04.09
Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. For a while there it would look like the first consecutive weeks without layoffs since this time last year (by our reckoning, you have […]