Above the Law

Thriving When You’re Surviving: Excelling Professionally During Personal Crisis

As lawyers, and particularly as lawyer moms, we are more likely to pretend everything is alright and less likely to seek help when needed.

Nashville: The (Legal) ‘It’ City

There is no single moment that kickstarted Nashville’s rapid growth.

ATL Bracket Time: Elite Eight Shows Strength Of Cats, Sex

Get your votes in by next Wednesday morning!

7 Strategies For Salary Negotiations To Help Close The Gender Pay Gap

If you are a woman attorney feeling underpaid, what can you do?

Simpson Thacher Enters The 2021 Special Bonus Wars Scene

This compensation leader doesn't want to be outdone by anyone.

Another Elite Firm Matches New Special Bonus Scale

We're bringing the whole gang into this special bonus job.

Am Law Top 20 Firm Antes Up With Special Bonus Bucks For Associates, Counsel

Yet another firm is offering big-time bonuses.

Biglaw Bonuses Blossom This Spring As Another Major Biglaw Firm Announces Special Bonuses

More bonuses are sprouting up in Biglaw!

GameStop To Cosplay As Actual Company, Release Irrelevant Earnings

And Elon Musk tries, and fails, to act like a normal corporate executive.

Morning Docket: 03.25.21

* A lawyer who is raising money for the Oath Keepers apparently likes to cite to Lord of the Rings in legal briefs. Bet he hopes judges don't say "you shall not pass" in response to motions to dismiss filed against him... [Daily Beast] * A Pennsylvania lawyer faces up to decades in prison for identity theft and stealing from clients. [Daily Voice] * California may soon have its first Filipino Attorney General. [NBC News] * The family of a black New York teen, who was falsely accused of stealing a cell phone, has filed a lawsuit. [CBS News] * Check out this article on why Supreme Court proceedings should not be televised. Since oral arguments may have been held from a bathroom during the pandemic, this is a strong position... [Washington Post]

Bonus Wars Continue — See Also

More Spring Bonuses! At Milbank and Skadden.

Law School Dean Peddles Stereotypes To Move Books: But at least he realizes it was wrong.

Biglaw Discrimination Lawsuit: At Quinn Emanuel.

The Best Brands In Biglaw: A top 10 list, we know you love lists.

Law School Racism Controversy: Well, that’ll happen when you’re named after a slaveholder.

The Former Biglaw Attorney Poised To Be The First Black U.S. Attorney At S.D.N.Y.

Quite the impressive resume.

Degenerates Kicking Hedge Fund They Pushed To The Floor While It’s Down

The hits keep coming for Gabe Plotkin.

Is Greed Good? Comeback Of Congressional Pork Spending Might Resurrect Compromise, Bipartisanship

Congressional pork (in the form of earmarks) has been gone since 2011, but now it might be making a comeback.

Springtime For Biglaw Bonuses

The party continues.