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Bar Exams, BARBRI, Technology
When Did The Bar Exam Become The Kobayashi Maru?
Sorry, we can’t help you with registering for the New York Bar Exam. Yeah, for those who haven’t been paying attention to some of my prior coverage, the New York Board of Law Examiners occasionally has problems. Today they’ve got a big one. People were supposed to be able to figure out where they’d be […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Bonuses, Constitutional Law, Gay, King & Spalding, Legal Ethics, Money, Partner Issues, Politics
King & Spalding: More DOMA Drama, Plus Salary and Bonus News
Some people, including crisis communications experts, think that King & Spalding should just shut up already about the DOMA debacle. The firm agreed to represent the House of Representatives in defending the controversial Defense of Marriage Act, and then almost immediately turned around and withdrew from the representation. This prompted the departure from the firm […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, Politics
Watch Out, Law Schools: A United States Senator Wants You To Stop Lying
Hell. Yeah. Today, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer called out the American Bar Association and asked the ABA to require law schools to provide accurate post-graduate employment and salary information about their former students. And so now the movement to get law schools to engage in some basic transparency about the value of a legal education […] -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, pls hndle thx
Pls Hndle Thx: Should New York's Bravest Brave Law School?
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. Dear ATL, I am an aspiring law student getting ready to send off my law school application. However, I have a problem: I can’t go to the only law school that makes sense for me; not because I did not score well […] -
Cardozo Law School, Law Schools, Rankings, U.S. News
Start Your Whining (Part 2): U.S. News Makes Law Schools Squirm All Across the Land
Yesterday we talked about a couple of schools that fell in this year’s U.S. News law school rankings, whose deans promptly devoted school-wide emails making excuses for their programs dropping. Predictably, they criticized U.S. News’s latest methodology, even though this year’s formula did a better job of focusing on factors law students actually care about […] -
Fashion, In-House Counsel, Legal Ethics, S.D.N.Y., Shira Scheindlin
Good News for In-House Counsel: Privilege Prevails in Showdown at Gucci Gulch
Back in April 2010, we bestowed Lawyer of the Day honors upon Jonathan Moss, former in-house counsel to Gucci. There was a question, however, as to how much of a “lawyer” Moss was. During his seven years working at the luxury fashion house, Moss did not have an active law license: he was a graduate […] -
Education / Schools, Law Schools
University of Delaware Starts the New Law School Process
Yesterday, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker announced that the university is thinking about founding a law school. It would be Delaware’s first public law school — Widener Law School is a private institution. It will be some time before the proposed law school is ready for approval by the Delaware Board of Trustees. Law […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Fall Recruiting Glitters in the Golden State
Greetings, loved ones. Hello there, California girls (and boys). We hope that you’re doing well. Gay marriage might be on hold for now, but there are other unions to celebrate on the West Coast. Like unions between law firms and job-seeking law students. As we’ve discussed in these pages before, on-campus interviewing at law schools […] -
Federal Government, Minority Issues, Politics, Racism, Screw-Ups
Shirley Sherrod Is Coming After Andrew Breitbart
If you thought this whole Shirley Sherrod thing was just going to blow over, well, you’re not thinking like a lawyer interested in generating fees. Burned by Andrew Breitbart’s editing skills, Sherrod says she intends to sue. The New York Daily News reports: “I will definitely do it,” Sherrod said at the National Association of […] -
Update: The Fastest Biglaw Lawyer in New York
Lawyers like going the extra mile — and we’re not just talking about meticulousness in contract drafting. For whatever reason, many lawyers like to run. Some go long distances, like the marathon (an event where lawyers excel, especially at young ages). Others are in for the shorter haul — e.g., last night’s Lawyers Have Heart […] -
Job Searches, Kevin Newsom, R. Ted Cruz, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
A Hot New Trend: State Solicitors General
Former Supreme Court clerks, also known as the Elect, have no shortage of job opportunities. And a new development in state government is giving them even more. From the National Law Journal: A trend among states in recent years to appoint a solicitor general has increased opportunities for young attorneys to get into court and […] -
See Also
Welcome To Repercussions Week! -- See Also
I Don’t Care To Belong To Any Club That Will Have Me As A Member: New York State Bar Association informs Rudy Giuliani that it draws the line at “inciting armed insurrection.”
Is You Taking Notes On A Criminal F**king Conspiracy: Lawyer records himself breaking into the Capitol and posts it on social media.
He Wasn’t Wrong, He Massaged The Truth: Alan Dershowitz gets dragged for espousing
nonsensicalheavily disfavored interpretation of impeachment.I Made A Huge Mistake: Ginni Thomas might want to take back that Tweet…
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 02.24.19
* You wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of Jussie Smollett right now — nor the shoes of his lawyers, according to Joel Cohen and Dale Degenshein. [Law and Crime]
* And in other celebrity legal news, the new documentary about Drake has triggered a slew of copyright claims and takedown notices. [All Rights Reserved]
* If you’ve been listening to the compelling new podcast from Wondery about the Dan Markel case, check out this interesting interview with host Matt Shaer. [Uproxx]
* Speaking of podcasts, I recently appeared on Miranda Warnings, the popular podcast by former New York State Bar Association president David Miranda, to talk about Biglaw, legal education, and more. [Miranda Warnings]
* And if you’ll be in Nashville tomorrow or Tuesday, please feel free to stop by either or both of the talks I’ll be giving at Vanderbilt — one on judicial celebrity, and one on the state of legal education. [Vanderbilt Federalist Society / Vanderbilt Law School Library]
* If you’re a libertarian or otherwise concerned about excessive exercises of government power, you should be concerned about President Donald Trump’s invocation of emergency powers, as Ilya Somin explains. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Will the Supreme Court ride to Trump’s rescue if and when his national emergency declaration winds up before SCOTUS? Brianne Gorod has her doubts. [Take Care]
* More excellent advice from expert courtroom lawyer David Berg — think of this as “The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes To Lose.” [YouTube]
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Labor / Employment, Legal Ethics
Law Firms Can Bill Out Unpaid Labor Because Why Not Make Money For Nothing?
The New York State Bar Association tells lawyers to go right ahead and bill for that unpaid employee. -
2nd Circuit, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, California, Cellphones, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Facebook, Federal Judges, Gay Marriage, Gender, Morning Docket, Privacy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
Morning Docket: 11.26.12
* Will it be DOMA or Prop 8? The countdown until Friday starts now, because everyone’s waiting to see whether the Supreme Court will grant cert on one of the five same-sex marriage cases that has come before the high court. [UPI]
* Walk like an Egyptian — or, in this case, you can protest like one. Judges and lawyers are on strike and filing legal challenges to President Mohamed Morsi’s “unprecedented attack on judicial independence.” [New York Times]
* Dewey know when this failed firm’s bankruptcy plan will be approved? Team Togut is hoping for a February resolution, but the rascally retirees may throw a wrench in things with their committee’s continued existence. [Am Law Daily]
* Even though the Northern District of California has a historic all-women federal bench — a courthouse of their own, if you will — there’s probably no need to tell them that THERE’S NO CRYING IN LITIGATION. No crying! [The Recorder]
* New technology + old laws = a privacy clusterf**k. This week, a Senate committee will contemplate whether the Electronic Communications Privacy Act needs to be updated to get with the times. [New York Times]
* The New York State Bar Association may oppose it, but Jacoby & Meyers’s challenge to the state’s ban on non-lawyer firm ownership shall live to see another day thanks to the Second Circuit. [New York Law Journal]
* An Alabama Slammer is both a dangerous cocktail and a term for what happens when your Southern law school refuses to cut its class size and you’re left woefully unemployed after graduation. [Birmingham News]
* Casey Anthony finds relevancy again! Girls in my high school used to search for “foolproof suffocation” on Google and later get acquitted of murdering their daughters all the time; it was no big deal. [USA Today]
* Dean Boland, aka Paul Ceglia’s gazillionth lawyer in the Facebook ownership case, will soon find out if can withdraw as counsel. He’s got other things to deal with, like a $300K child porn judgment. [Wall Street Journal]
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3rd Circuit, American Bar Association / ABA, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Federal Government, Free Speech, Guns / Firearms, Legal Ethics, Money, Morning Docket, Old People, Politics, Pornography
Morning Docket: 04.18.12
* Since you’re so funny, crack some jokes about this one, Obama. Senate Republicans will be filing an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the constitutionality of the President’s recess appointments. [New York Times]
* Thanks to this Third Circuit ruling, you can rest easy knowing that you can rely on the First Amendment to protect your homemade sex tapes from all of those strict porn record-keeping and labeling requirements… for now. [Reuters]
* Due to Kelley Drye’s EEOC settlement, the New York State Bar Association is asking firms to end mandatory retirement policies. Because old folks need to make bank till they croak. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* The ABA’s Commission on Ethics 20/20 has decided to ditch its proposal to allow limited nonlawyer ownership of law firms. Cue tears and temper tantrums from the likes of Jacoby & Meyers. [Am Law Daily]
* “If I believe that Chris Armstrong is a radical homosexual activist, I have a constitutional right to express that opinion.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell that to the judge who dismissed your suit, Shirvell. [Detroit Free Press]
* Presenting “her royal hotness”: apparently Pippa Middleton has been seen cavorting around France with gun-toting lawyer Romain Rabillard, of Shearman & Sterling. [Daily Mail]
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Artificial Intelligence
AI, Deepfakes, And Litigation: It's Not Always What It Seems
Determining the admissibility of videos created using AI tools presents a challenge even for the most technology-adept judges, of which there are relatively few. -
Technology
Balancing Legal Ethics With Rapid AI Innovation
The promised efficiency gains offered by these tools come with their own set of challenges, including doubts over result accuracy and concerns about client confidentiality. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Accept Guidance On How To Navigate Attacks On Their Diversity Initiatives
They're taking advice from the experts -- and hopefully it'll work. -
Technology
AI Update: MIT’s AI Rules, BigLaw’s Slow AI Embrace, The NYSBA AI Task Force
This week in AI news.