Real Estate
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Entertainment Law, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: An Entertainment Lawyer Unloads His $5.3 Million Home
Which prominent entertainment lawyer, married to a high-profile journalist and author, just sold his apartment for a seven-figure sum? -
Asians, Gay, In-House Counsel, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Pets, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: An In-House Counsel's Housing Hunt
Where does this corporate counsel work, and how big was his budget? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
California, Real Estate
AirBnB Users Need To Help Themselves To Some Basic Real Estate Law
Landlord-tenant law doesn't stop just because you are using the internet.
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Biglaw, Duval & Stachenfeld, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: Low Overhead Is Great!
What are the many benefits of having low overhead? Managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld identifies several. -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Federal Judges, Judicial Divas, Lawyerly Lairs, Loretta Preska, Money, Partner Issues, Real Estate, S.D.N.Y.
Lawyerly Lairs: A Judicial Diva's $8.7 Million Penthouse
Which prominent federal judge, married to a big-time Biglaw partner, just purchased a penthouse for $8.7 million? -
Real Estate, Small Law Firms, Solo Practitioners
Why Co-Working Might Not Work For Lawyers -- And What The Bars Can Do About It
What exactly is "co-working," and does it make sense for lawyers at small firms or for solo practitioners? -
Biglaw, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: On Competition
Does a law firm need to crush the competition in order to succeed? -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Litigators, Partner Issues, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Powerful Paul Weiss Partner's Penthouse -- On Sale For $15 Million
Which legendary lawyer once called this mansion in the sky his home? - Sponsored
How Generative AI Will Improve Legal Service Delivery
Learn how emerging tools will likely change and enhance the work of lawyers for years to come in this new report. -
Crime, Divorce Train Wrecks, Job Searches, Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Morning Docket, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, Weddings
Morning Docket: 06.23.14
* SCOTUS justices’ financial disclosures revealed that none of them received gifts worth reporting in 2013. Either their friends have gotten cheaper, or they have fewer friends. Aww. [Legal Times]
* Here’s a headline we’ve been seeing for years, but people are still ignoring it in small droves: “Jobs Are Still Scarce for New Law School Grads.” The struggle is real. [Businessweek]
* Law schools, in an effort to avoid their own extinction, are all adapting to their new enrollment issues in different ways. We’ll see which was effective in a few years. [U.S. News University Connection]
* Quite the “divorce” train wreck we’ve got here, if only they were legally wed: This lawyer allegedly duped his “wife” into a fake marriage, and is trying to evict her from his $1 million lawyerly lair. [New York Post]
* You may have heard that Hope Solo allegedly assaulted her sister and nephew, but her lawyer says that’s simply not true. It was the drunk soccer star who needed shin guards that night. [Associated Press]
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Biglaw, Duval & Stachenfeld, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: Creating Customers – Peter Drucker
What lessons does the work of management guru Peter Drucker offer for the business of law? -
Clerkships, Craigslist, Real Estate, Supreme Court Clerks
Law Clerks Try To Construct Most Toolish Apartment On The Block
This all-lawyer house would make for a good reality TV show but is a terrible real-world idea. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Anthony Kennedy, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Layoffs, Morning Docket, Murder, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 06.13.14
* The SCOTUS decision in the Pom Wonderful case could have serious repercussions in terms of deceptive labeling litigation under the Lanham Act. Even Justice Kennedy was misled! [Huffington Post]
* Dewey know when to WARN people? This failed firm apparently didn’t, and now it has to pay a $4.5 million class-action settlement to the employees it laid off without adequate notice. [WSJ Law Blog]
* After getting bumped out of the Am Law 100 after a 17-year run, Shook Hardy & Bacon is letting go of three floors of office space it “no longer needs.” Secretaries Paper takes up a lot of room! [Am Law Daily]
* Minutes after this career criminal was released from jail due to his accidental acquittal, he was stabbed to death with a steak knife. But for the jury’s crazy mistake, he would still be alive. Yikes. [Fresno Bee]
* LMU’s Duncan Law, perhaps better known as the little law school that couldn’t, is still trying to get ABA accreditation. At least this time they’ll be able to use law schools’ national decline as a scapegoat. [WBIR]
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Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate
5 Lessons I Learned From Buying A House In Westchester While Poor
I bought a house; learn from my errors.
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Biglaw, Duval & Stachenfeld, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: Blend In At Your Peril; You Need To Stand Out
According to managing partner Bruce Stachenfeld, you don’t need all customers (clients or lawyers), just a few who really want you badly. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Patton Boggs, Real Estate, White-Collar Crime
More Partner Departures At Bingham
Who are the latest partners to leave, and where are they going? -
Celebrities, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Ronan Farrow's $1.5 Million Bachelor Pad
Ronan Farrow leads a charmed life; check out his $1.5 million apartment. -
Biglaw, Duval & Stachenfeld, Job Searches, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Small Law Firms
Reinventing The Law Business: Achieving The Mission -- Attracting, Training, Retaining And Inspiring Talent
Eight insights on talent management from Bruce Stachenfeld, founder and managing partner of Duval & Stachenfeld. -
Basketball, Biglaw, Cars, Google / Search Engines, In-House Counsel, Law Firm Mergers, Law Firm Names, Money, Morning Docket, Patents, Patton Boggs, Racism, Real Estate, Technology
Morning Docket: 05.19.14
* Partners from Patton Boggs and Squire Sanders may vote on their merger sometime this week. Get ready to say hello to Squire Patton, House of Boggs, Hodorific of Its Name. [Reuters]
* “[E]xcuse me, sir, you may not be here in five years.” Biglaw firms are becoming more “egalitarian” about office space because attorneys have expiration dates. [National Law Journal]
* After a flat year in 2013, and much to Biglaw’s chagrin, “[i]t is going to be harder to sustain year-over-year profitability gains.” Oh joy, time to power up the layoff machine. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* Tech giants Apple and Google have called a ceasefire in their dueling patent suits in a quest to reform patent law — and so Apple can concentrate all of its efforts on suing the sh*t out of Samsung. [Bloomberg]
* GM’s in-house legal department is being heavily scrutinized in the wake of the car maker’s ignition switch lawsuit extravaganza. You see, friends, people die when lawyers don’t even bother to lie. [New York Times]
* Donald Sterling found a lawyer willing to represent him, an antitrust maven who thinks the NBA should take its ball and go home because “no punishment was warranted” in his client’s case. [WSJ Law Blog]
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Lawyer Advertising, Quote of the Day, Real Estate
Lawyer's Larger Than Life Window Cut-Out Pisses Off City, 'Intimidates' Residents
Would you advertise with a sign like this? -
Biglaw, Books, Death Penalty, Education / Schools, Kids, Law Schools, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Tax Law
Morning Docket: 05.09.14
* If you want to become a Supreme Court justice, you can start by attending one of these three schools. The schools that produced the most justices are Harvard Law, Yale Law, and Columbia Law. [TIME]
* Many of the transactional practice areas that took a bruising during the height of the recession, like corporate work, M&A, real estate, and tax, seem to be coming back. Sorry litigators. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Following Oklahoma’s botched lethal injection, another death row inmate has been given a new lease on life — for the next six months — while an investigation is being carried out. [Associated Press]
* Members of the defense team for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev not only want their client’s comments after arrest stricken from the record, but they also want the death penalty off the table. Good luck. [CNN]
* A lawyer was arrested after a school board meeting because he complained for too long about a graphic sex scene in a book his daughter was assigned to read for school. That’s typical. [New York Daily News]