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The interesting comment thread to our recent post about the Seyfarth Shaw memo — aka “We’re on the List of Shame, and We’re Telling You We’re Not Going” — reminded us of something we meant to link to earlier. It’s an article, from this month’s ABA Journal, reporting the results of a survey of young […]

Lots of interesting moves, both actual and rumored, to report upon today. Possible promotion: * Elena Kagan, the popular (and hot) dean of Harvard Law School, is being considered for the presidency of Harvard University. In government: * New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is on a hiring spree (just like his successor as AG, Andrew […]

Some other noteworthy moves within the legal profession (besides Chief Judge David Levi’s selection as Dean of Duke Law School): Within government: * This is big news: the new Attorney General for New York, Andrew Cuomo, has hired Barbara D. Underwood as his solicitor general. Underwood has a resume to die for. She has served […]

Welcome to the latest installment of Legal Fee Voyeurism, in which we dish about how much lawyers are getting paid for their labors. Today’s subject: Amtrak, the federally subsidized passenger railroad that’s a perennial source of bad news. From the AP: Amtrak cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in unnecessary legal expenses, an independent […]