Sheppard Mullin
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Sheppard Mullin
Associate Bonus Watch: Which Firm Just Issued Supplemental Bonuses?
Is bonus "season" becoming a year-round phenomenon? Check out how this firm just sweetened the pot. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Magic Circle, Money, Sheppard Mullin
Associate Bonus Watch: 10 Leading Law Firms -- Who's Naughty And Who's Nice?
A round-up of bonus news from 10 leading law firms. - Sponsored
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Legal document automation is no longer only for the exclusive few. -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Hotties, Partner Issues, Romance and Dating, Sheppard Mullin, Weddings
This Lucky Lawyer Gets To Marry Winnie From The Wonder Years
Danica McKellar is getting married, and her fiancé is a hottie!
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Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, Litigators, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Real Estate, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Sheppard Mullin, Staff Layoffs
What's Going On At Bingham McCutchen?
Tumbling profits, partner departures, staff layoffs -- can't Bingham get a break? -
Biglaw, Edwards Wildman, Husch Blackwell, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Patton Boggs, Rankings, Sheppard Mullin
Which Firm Had The Most Lateral Hires (And Partner Defections) In 2013?
Do you think lateral hires are killing your firm? Maybe you should consider getting out while you still can. -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Rankings, Sheppard Mullin
Crain’s 2013 ‘Best Places To Work In NYC’ List Includes Seven Law Firms
Which law firms are considered tops in the city that never sleeps? Let's find out... -
Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Cozen O'Connor, Interview Stories, Job Survey, Law Students, Patton Boggs, Schiff Hardin, Sheppard Mullin
'Please Pretend To Care' And Other On-Campus Interviewing Lessons
A look at the results of our OCI survey, including the firms rated most highly by student interviewees. -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, No Offers, Sheppard Mullin, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2013): A Round-Up
Which major law firms issued offers to all of their associates? Here are more names. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Law Firm Mergers, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Sheppard Mullin, Snell & Wilmer
Partners Streaming Out Of The K&L Gates?
What's going on at K&L Gates? Reports have surfaced of significant partner departures. -
2nd Circuit, Akin Gump, American Bar Association / ABA, Arent Fox, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Breasts, Divorce Train Wrecks, Dorsey & Whitney, Duane Morris, Education / Schools, John Roberts, Law Professors, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Morning Docket, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Pornography, Privacy, Real Estate, SCOTUS, Sheppard Mullin, Supreme Court, Texas, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 08.10.12
* “I’ve been a restaurant waitress, a hotel hostess, a car parker, a nurse’s aide, a maid in a motel, a bookkeeper and a researcher.” This SCOTUS wife was well-prepared to give a graduation speech at New England Law. [Huffington Post]
* Sniffling over lost profits is the best way to get a court to take your side. Biglaw firms have asked the Second Circuit to consider reversing a decision in the Coudert Brothers “unfinished business” clawback case. [Legal Intelligencer]
* James Holmes, the alleged Aurora movie theater gunman, is being evicted from his apartment. Guess he didn’t know — or care — that booby-trapping the place with bombs would be against the terms of his lease. [Denver Post]
* The ABA has created a task force to study the future of legal education, and its work is expected to completed in 2014. ::rolleyes:: Oh, good thing they’re not in any kind of a hurry — there’s no need to rush. [ABA Journal]
* Indiana Tech, the little law school that nobody wants could, has hired its first faculty members. Thus far, the school has poached law professors from from West Virginia, Florida A&M, and Northern Illinois. [JD Journal]
* When divorces get weird: is this lawyer’s soon-to-be ex-wife hacking into his law firm email account and planning to publish privileged communications online? Yep, this is in Texas. [Unfair Park / Dallas Observer]
* Breast-feeding porn: yup, that’s a thing, so start Googling. A New Jersey mother is suing an Iowa production company after an instructional video she appeared in was spliced to create pornography. [Boston Globe]
* If someone from your school newspaper asks you for a quote about oral sex, and then you’re quoted in the subsequent article, you’re probably not going to win your invasion of privacy lawsuit. [National Law Journal]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Federal Judges, Health Care / Medicine, Howrey LLP, Morning Docket, Screw-Ups, Sheppard Mullin, State Judges, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 07.18.12
* Bankruptcy blues: “No one is getting a free pass.” Howrey going to start clawing back all of that money from our former partners and their new firms? Dewey even want to get started with this failed firm’s D&L defectors? [Am Law Daily (sub. req.)]
* Way to show that you’ve got some Seoul: Ropes & Gray, Sheppard Mullin, and Clifford Chance were the first Biglaw firms to receive approval from the Korean Ministry of Justice to open the first foreign firm offices in South Korea. [Legal Week]
* This is supposed to represent an improvement? Pretty disappointing. The percentage of women holding state court judgeships increased by a whopping 0.7 percent over last year’s numbers. [National Law Journal]
* Throw your birth control pills in the air like confetti, because a judge tossed a lawsuit filed by seven states that tried to block the Affordable Care Act’s mandatory contraception coverage provision. [Lincoln Journal Star]
* “[S]omewhere along the way the guy forgot to tell the seller that he was working with the buyer.” Duane Morris was sued for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty for more than $192M. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Please don’t Google me, bitches. Brandon Hamilton, Louisville Law’s ex-assistant dean for admissions, resigned Monday after overpromising $2.4M in scholarship money to incoming law students. [Courier-Journal]
* A New Hampshire college is offering free tuition to students in their junior year if they combine their senior year with their first year at the Massachusetts School of Law. The catch? Mass Law is unaccredited. [NHPR]
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Advertising, Biglaw, California, Career Center, Partner Issues, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, Sheppard Mullin, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: Top Partners to Work For – California (Part 2)
Today we wrap up coverage of the top California partners to work for, as selected by our readers (see Part 1 here). These six partners have diverse practices that range from real estate, to labor and employment, to IP, and work at some of the nation’s finest firms: Cooley, DLA Piper, Sheppard Mullin, Jones Day, […] -
Biglaw, Career Alternatives, Pictures, Sheppard Mullin
Departure Memo of the Day: Take a Picture of Your Bank Account Because It'll Never Look This Good Again
The economy must be heating up, because lawyers are leaving their jobs to do all kinds of crazy things. I mean, maybe the legal economy is still crappy, since these people aren’t leaving for other legal jobs. But there must be a general sense of optimism if all of these people have decided to just […]
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Biglaw, Dissolution, Howrey LLP, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Sheppard Mullin, Summer Associates
Howreying for the Exits: More Partner Departures; Bootcamp Gets the Boot
The spinning of the revolving door at the beleaguered Howrey law firm is making our heads spin here at Above the Law. Keeping track of all the partner departures is becoming quite the challenge. We’ve collected some links about the latest partner defections, after the jump. At this rate, it’s not clear how many lawyers […] -
Associate Salaries, Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin Comes Back to the Light of $160K
As we’ve been trying to tell people, paying associates less than a $160K starting salary is just not something that Biglaw firms should be doing. Everybody got very excited in 2009 when they thought that there was an opportunity to keep profits high by squeezing entry level associates, but it turns out that pay cuts […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Bonuses, Killing Lockstep, Money, Sheppard Mullin
WilmerHale Brings Clarity to Its Merit-Based Compensation Program
The heady days of the “mutually assured destruction” approach to associate compensation by Biglaw firms are behind us. But some associates would still like to see how they are doing in comparison to their colleagues at other firms. A tipster recently wrote us: Can you do a post requesting commenters to post grade schedules a […] -
Associate Salaries, Sheppard Mullin, Summer Associates
Sheppard Mullin 'Anomaly' Leaves First-Years Making Less Than Summer Associates
It’s pretty tough being a first-year associate these days. You’re working hard, you’re terrified of getting Lathamed, and you can’t even complain, because everybody thinks you should be grateful to have a job. But at least you don’t have to deal with bright and unbroken summer associates, rolling through your office with smoke billowing up […] -
Blank Rome, Kramer Levin, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Sheppard Mullin, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Vault 100 Open Threads: 2010
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 91 - 100 (2010)
Here we are. The end of the Vault 100. To be on the Vault 100 is to be a well-known firm. Sure, maybe not well-known to law students or junior associates who can’t see past the mountain of doc review boxes in their windowless conference rooms. But known to partners … and clients. Look down […] -
Nauseating Things, Rudeness, Sheppard Mullin
Sheppard Mullin Potty Puddle Watch: Make sure to wipe the seat, ladies.
The executive director of Sheppard Mullin sent out an email to the Los Angeles office yesterday with the following subject: “Copycat Urinater.” Here’s an excerpt: A few weeks ago, someone urinated on the floor and two of the toilet seats in women’s room on the 43rd Floor. I reviewed the security tapes and interviewed those […] -
Dreier, Morning Docket, Sheppard Mullin
Morning Docket 04.28.09
* Marc Dreier will plead guilty on May 11. Defense attorney Gerald Shargel said he “wants to enter the plea to demonstrate his acceptance of responsibility and his profound remorse.” Or maybe it’s just because he ran out of money to pay Shargel. [Forbes] * Forget the office attire debate over suit vs. blazer and […]