Job Survey

We received just over one thousand responses to last Tuesday’s ATL / Lateral Link survey on politics in the workplace. Seventy-four percent of respondents reported that they discuss politics in the workplace. Eighty percent noted that associates discuss politics, and sixty-four percent said that partners discuss politics. Only thirty-eight percent said that staff members discuss […]

Yesterday, we discovered that 38% of associates who cancelled plans to work had done so at the request of a client. We also received an interesting suggestion from a tipster: I wanted to suggest a survey of what law firms pay in bonuses for business brought to the firm. For instance, I know that Chadbourne […]

In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you about how often you cancelled your personal plans for work. We received 633 responses, and, by and large, you should just stop making personal plans. Thirty-six percent of respondents had cancelled plans “too many times to count” last year, while another 17% had cancelled […]

Today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey is inspired by Super Tuesday. We’ve included political figures in our surveys last month, and featured a major political fundraiser as a Job of the Week the month before, but on Super Tuesday, politics rise to a whole new level. So, as Barack and Hillary go toe to toe […]

In last month’s ATL / Lateral Link survey we asked you which holidays you worked on, or expected to work on, during 2007. About half of you reported that you had worked on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Last week, we asked you how you fared this year. Did you take the day off to […]

The time has come, and the crowning of ATL’s Lawyer of the Year and Second Favorite Blog After ATL, both of which are sponsored by ATL and Lateral Link, is at last upon us. In all, a whopping 4,186 votes were cast, with 2,683 of you voting for Lawyer of the Year and 1,503 weighing […]

In previous ATL / Lateral Link surveys, we’ve discovered that a surprising number of you worked over Christmas or New Year’s, and that many of you crave a better work environment or better hours. So, as we look forward to the Superbowl and tomorrow night’s Lost premiere and the crowning of ATL’s Lawyer of the […]

Time is running out on this month’s ATL Lawyer of the Year and Second Favorite Blog After ATL polls, both sponsored by ATL and Lateral Link. So far, we’re up to just over 2,600 votes for Lawyer of the Year, and Wall Street Journal pick Loyola 2L is still going strong. Meanwhile, Barack Obama has […]

Last month we asked you which holidays you worked on, or expected to work on, during 2007. About half of you reported that you had worked on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we see how you fared last week. Did you take the day off to honor a […]

So far, about 1,400 of you have cast your vote for ATL Lawyer Of The Year. Loyola 2L is in the lead so far, but Obama is close behind. Whoever helps Chipmunk Lady is a not-so-distant third, showing that this year’s ATL reader wants change (and bonuses) and supports the little guy (and not-so-little bonuses). […]

In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you to submit your nominations for Lawyer of the Year. Today, you get to vote! The nominees, and select comments explaining why, are below: Aaron Charney For both the attention focused, success of action, and for the visibility [he] brought to the secondary issue of […]

In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you whether it was fair for associates in New York to get bigger bonuses than associates in other cities, even if they worked the same hours. We appear to have struck a nerve. Over two thousand of you responded. Among New Yorkers, 94% of associates […]

Last month, our ATL / Lateral Link job survey asked you when your firms paid bonuses, and whether you were planning on changing jobs once those bonuses got paid. About 20% of you responded that you were considering leaving your current firms. For some of you, this meant waiting until you got your bonus. For […]

So far this month, over 1,500 of you have voted on who should receive two significant accolades. Our Second Favorite Blog Of The Year After ATL survey, sponsored by ATL and Lateral Link, is still dominated by the Wall Street Journal. But the Volokh Conspiracy, Patently-O, and SCOTUSblog are putting up a fight, write-in candidate […]

So far, we’ve received exactly 1,400 responses to last week’s survey on hours and bonuses. You can see how bonuses broke down for the Classes of 2005 and 2006, based on hours, in the results to yesterday’s Lawyer of the Year survey. But how did billable hours break down by city? There’s been a lot […]

We’re still collecting nominations for the first annual ATL Lawyer of the Year, and we’ve decided to combine last month’s open thread with today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey. Let us know who you think should be our Lawyer of the Year, and why. To add a little fun, we’re also going to let you […]

Last month we asked you which holidays you worked on, or expected to work on, during 2007. About 10% of you reported that you expected to work on Christmas, and roughly 22% expected to work on New Year’s. You were wrong. We received about 1,300 responses to last Tuesday’s ATL / Lateral Link survey about […]

Based on last month’s survey about base salaries and bonus, we’ve told you about bonuses in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles (take the survey on that page to see the results), San Francisco / Silicon Valley, Boston, and even Texas. And so far, one thing seems clear: New Yorkers have bigger… bonuses. In today’s […]

We received about 1,400 responses to last month’s ATL / Lateral Link survey about base salaries and bonus. So far, we’ve told you about New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles (take the survey on that page to see the results), San Francisco / Silicon Valley, and Boston. Today, we’re showing you Texas, and we’re supplementing […]

Tonight’s ATL / Lateral Link survey explores the complex interplay between billable hours, pro bono, and sweet, sweet bonuses. [Update: This survey is now closed. Read some of the results after the jump.] Also, a quick note about this month’s who’s your favorite blawg other than ATL survey, which is still open. So far, the […]