Associate Bonus Watch: A Firm Offering Associates DPW Bonuses… And More To Some
Another bonus announcement. This one brings good news for a substantial number of associates.
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March Madness, March Madness 2010, Reader Polls
ATL March Madness (Round 1): Best City to Practice Law. The West and Midwest Matchups.
The NCAA March Madness Tournament kicked off officially today. (Since it took Elie a good two hours to write his half of this post, Kash assumes he’s streaming the tournament on his computer.) Meanwhile, we kicked off round one in our ATL “Best City To Practice Law” tournament on Tuesday, pitting cities in the East […]
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Total Recall? Not at Winston & Strawn.
Email gaffe sends ‘all partners’ memo to ‘all attorneys.’Received last Friday from a tipster at Winston & Strawn (who was unhappy with the firm’s double salary freeze): To add major insult to injury — especially after Sidley Austin’s announcement [of a raise] this afternoon — the Managing Partner of Winston just accidentally emailed a memo to ALL ATTORNEYS (including all associates) which he […]
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Thomson Reuters Attempts to Achieve “Super”iority with Lawyers
After taking a a shot to the chin on news of Lexis Nexis’ new partnership with Microsoft, Thomson Reuters (the parent company of Westlaw), has announced that they are acquiring SuperLawyers. This literally just broke tonight, and like most things in my life I am a bit perplexed on this. I would assume this would […]
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Did Lexis Nexis Just ‘Bing’ Westlaw?
It’s almost as if Westlaw (Thomson Reuters) had a crystal ball before this year’s LegalTech. From the get-go, they brought out the razzle dazzle in announcing their new WestlawNext. Before you could even enter the exhibit hall, they had music, giant television screens, and people running around with MacBook Airs showing off their new product. […]
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Biglaw, David Boies, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Partner Issues, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Boies’s Bargain
The legendary litigator snaps up an $8 million apartment.In between Christmas and New Year’s, while most of us were stuffing our faces, celebrated litigator David Boies was stuffing his own stocking — with a magnificent New York apartment. Last year was a good one for Boies Schiller associates, at least based on their bonuses. And it probably was a good one for their […]
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* It’s beginning to look a lot like … what? We’re still working? The whole team? Oh all right. [ABC News] * Gatesgate 2: The Prequel. [Courthouse News Service] * Yes, to your friend, Forbes Magazine, you will listen about the wisdom of applying to law school. [Forbes] * An exodus from Dickstein Shapiro to […]
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* Microsoft reaches a settlement with European antitrust regulators, agreeing to give Windows users a choice of browsers. [New York Times] * Garth Brooks is suing his hometown hospital for half a mill. (If we had knowledge of any of his music, we’d engage in some wordplay here based on an album or song title, […]
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Lawsuit of the Day, Technology
Lawsuit of the Day: Friendless Man Sues Nintendo
Here we have another lawsuit that is based on Nintendo’s Wii, the wildly popular gaming system for children that adults are strangely not embarrassed to love. Sadly, this lawsuit doesn’t involve a grown woman making herself sick by refusing to urinate. Instead, we have a guy who needs to play as a space traveling princess […]
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UT Law Has the Most Depressing Job Posting Ever
I understand that “most depressing job posting” is a strong statement. The job market is awful and I’m sure that there are terrible listings that I have not seen. But I stand by my headline. As of Friday the 13th, November 2009, this is the most depressing “legal” job that I’ve seen offered to qualified […]
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* Massachusetts’s treasurer says the state can’t afford a new public law school. [Boston Globe] * Organized crime is infiltrating law schools in the Czech Republic. This would never happen in New Jersey! [Blackbook Legal] * Microsoft’s General Counsel, Paramount’s General Counsel, and the VP of MySpace talk about funding professional content in the modern […]
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* Can Congress ban a “Human Sacrifice Channel” on television? Justice Alito wants to know (and Fox probably does too). [New York Times; Washington Briefs] * European Union regulators are working on a settlement in the Microsoft browser case. [AP] * A jury concludes: mugging a 101-year-old woman on her way to church is not […]
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A Fish Out of Austin: Fish & Richardson Closes Austin Office
As a New Yorker, people often tell me that Austin is “the oasis of Texas.” I think they mean that Austin is a culturally progressive blue city in middle of a red state. I hope they don’t mean that Austin is a great place to practice law. On Friday, Fish & Richardson announced plans to […]
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* If you’re wondering how Ted Olson wound up representing the plaintiffs in a case challenging California’s ban on same-sex marriage, read this. [New York Times] * An Oklahoma judge strikes down, on state constitutional grounds, an Oklahoma law requiring ultrasounds before abortions. [Washington Post] * Microsoft seeks Federal Circuit permission to keep selling Word […]
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Attorney Misconduct, Bankruptcy, Benchslaps, Biglaw, Harvey Miller, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Partner Issues, Screw-Ups
$40 Million Benchslap for Weil Gotshal
Don’t get too comfortable with that shiny new #6 Vault ranking, Weil Gotshal. The firm just got served, Texas-style. The ABA Journal reports: The Texas judge who ordered Microsoft to pay $290 million for infringing a patent included a $40 million enhancement that he said was partly justified because of alleged trial misconduct by a […]
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* Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, the No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department, signed off on a decision to drop a voter intimidation complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party. [Washington Times] * Can’t we all just get along — with the help of beer? Today at a White House picnic, […]
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American Constitution Society (ACS), Conferences / Symposia, Free Speech, Media and Journalism, Merrick Garland, Technology
At the ACS National Convention: The Internet and the First Amendment
The second panel we attended at the recent convention of the American Constitution Society (ACS) focused on a topic near and dear to our heart: free speech on the internet. The panel, The Internet Revolution and Its Effect on the First Amendment, featured the following participants: Judge Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
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Top Ten iPhone Apps for Biglawyers
These days, it seems like the Blackberry stranglehold on Biglaw is loosening. Purely anecdotally, we’ve been seeing many office-pale fingers making use of iPhone touch screens to check for partner e-mails over the weekends. Let’s move beyond the anecdotal though. Which do you prefer as your Biglaw ball and chain? Online Surveys & Market Research If you […]
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Morning Docket, SCOTUS Potential
* The Supreme Court short list has been leaked. Surprise: There’s a man on the list! Under consideration are Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Appeals Court judges Sonia Sotomayor and Diane Pamela Wood, and California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno. [Associated Press] * Bill Gates is […]
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