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Top Vault Firm Bumps Up Salaries For First-Year Associates, Leaves Everyone Else In Black Box

These firms are showing associates the money -- for their market, of course.

More Biglaw Firms Delay Openings, Lay Down Strong Vaccination Policies

Paul Weiss, Simpson, and Winston release new statements.

NYU Law School Ethics Professor Pegged In Efforts To Discredit Andrew Cuomo Accuser

It's worth taking some time to get inside the heads of those who enable this conduct.

Legal Budgeting In The New Normal

How forward-looking GCs can rethink their budgets.

3 Brand-Maintaining Tips For In-House Counsel

These tips, if executed consistently, can help you maintain your brand with less brain drain and stress.

Providers Will Likely Face More Lawsuits Against Vaccine Mandates. But They Are Also More Likely To Win.

Providers' legal defense against lawsuits aiming to tear down vaccine mandates is wide-ranging, from making the argument that allowing an unvaccinated worker into their facilities could pose a direct threat to the worker to invoking a 1905 precedent set by the Supreme Court.

Biglaw Firm Announces One-Time Only Bonuses For Counsel And Senior Attorneys

A Biglaw firm actually remembers its counsel in this year of big bonuses.

Morning Docket: 08.05.21

* Lawyers alleging an election conspiracy dropped a complaint so bad they had to pay opposing counsel’s attorney fees. Ha. [ABA Journal]

* Illinois Governor puts a stop to immigrant detention. That’s ill. [Jurist]

* Teacher for a career that makes its money arguing is adamantly against being vaccinated. This is why nobody likes lawyers. [Reuters]

* Mask Free, Died Hard: Anti-vaxxer politician dies of COVID. [Business Insider]

* Biden is gassed up over electric cars. 2030, baby! [CNN]

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].

Can’t Have Any Gaps In That Resume, Rudy! — See Also

Salaries Still Trickling In: Venable was silent on salary a lot longer than its peers, but has taken the plunge.

Forum Shopping Spree: Devin Nunes seems to have found a new home for his lawsuits.

Rudy Resume: It seems like this guy isn’t keeping his c.v. up to date.

Bubble Boy(s and Girls): Law schools have got a new job bubble brewing.

Goldilocks Firms: The best firms if you don’t want to go somewhere too big, or too small.

The Best Of Biglaw, New York Edition

If you can make it there...

$13M Settlement For Victims Of Canadian Doctor Who Used Own Sperm On Patients

It's estimated that there were approximately 500 successful births through artificial insemination linked to the doctor during the claim period.

More Law Firms Should Conduct Exit Interviews

Even though no one likes to be criticized, exit interviews can be an invaluable resource, and more law firms should adopt this practice.

CMS Repeals MA Rate Disclosure Requirement, Boosts Hospital Payments By $2.3B

CMS has finalized its 2022 inpatient payment rule, which will not only repeal part of the price transparency requirements related to Medicare Advantage rates and increase payments to hospitals but will also require facilities to report COVID-19 vaccination uptake among its employees.

Cooler Heads Prevail?

Really our only wish this week.

Now Live At The Non-Event: Win New Business With A CRM Upgrade! 

Most lawyers fail to effectively track their leads. But doing so is an easy way to grow a firm’s bottom line. So what gives?