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One Of The Best Firms To Work For Has Sweetened The Pot

I remember being happy for an hourly wage increase.

Indicted Rep. Fortenberry Says It’s Cool Because Prosecutors Gave Him Permission To Lie To The FBI Actually

Since Michael Flynn got off, these a-holes will try any crazy thing.

Biglaw’s 2021 Bonus Bonanza, Now With Special Bonuses!

Is your firm listed here? If not, what are the partners waiting for?

What Clients Are Saying Behind Your Back

How firms can harness the power of branding.

Cravath Announces Major Change To Partnership Model

It's been almost half a century.

The Lawyer Holiday Gift Guide: The Best Gifts For The Attorney In Your Life

When a lump of coal just isn't an option.

Paul Weiss Jumps On The New Annual Bonus Bandwagon

Here come the bonuses.

It’s Best Not To Have Checks Reading ‘Home’ From Your Girlfriend After You Deny Living With, Talking To Her To FINRA

Especially when there’s insider-trading allegedly involved.

Davis Polk Smashes Bonus Scale Again With Year-End Bonuses PLUS More Special Bonuses

DPW comes over the top. Yet again.

Morning Docket: 12.06.21

* Chris Cuomo has gaba’d his last gool on CNN for advising his brother on how to deal with sexual misconduct allegations. [Reuters]

* All talk, no billables: Top lawyers respond to a survey that assesses the importance of DEI in the workplace. [Bloomberg Law]

* ‘When there are nine” is looking more like a heuristic than a legal requirement. [LA Times]

* The St. Louis Zoo thinks gun activists should be the ones strapped with paying their legal fees. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* Push for clemency over a man behind bars because he stole one too many bottles of Robitussin. [PIX11]

Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s. Before that, he wrote columns for an online magazine named The Muse Collaborative under the pen name Knehmo. He endured the great state of Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

Next Time… Maybe Try Avis? — See Also

Careful Who You Mess With: Hertz tries to screw over a law professor and she had none of it.

FedSoc Party!!!: Reminder that the Federalist Society’s national practice group chair flogged the Redneck Insurrection in January. So he’s got some questions to plead the Fifth over.

Diversity Training: There are a lot of good reasons to bring diversity training into the firm. There are a lot of good reasons to use third parties to conduct the training. There are a lot of good third-party trainers out there. This one is a little… well… you take a look.

Good Dog: Colorado courts tell cops they can’t keep using marijuana sniffing dogs to manufacture probable cause since marijuana is, you know, legal there.

The Granddaddy Of All Conspiracy Theories

Don't be a patsy.

True Diversity Is When White People Play Black People. Like Hamilton.

It's hip-hop. You wouldn't understand. Just do the diversity training, Hilary.

DOJ Tries Again To Persuade A Court That Saying A Woman Is Too Ugly To Rape Is The President’s Actual Job

All it would have taken was a cheek swab to make this thing go away. Just sayin'.

Pentagon IP Office Lacks Support, Expertise: GAO

The Pentagon's small IP Cadre office is facing challenges since its establishment in 2019.