Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Associate Bonus Watch: More Market Matches
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Biglaw, Deaths, Federal Judges, Health Care / Medicine, Money, Morning Docket, Privacy, Rankings, SCOTUS, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Supreme Court, Trials
Morning Docket: 03.14.12
* Who will play starring roles in the Obamacare arguments before SCOTUS? A bunch of older white guys. Good thing this isn’t televised, because the ratings would probably suck. [Legal Times]
* The judiciary is on the cusp of a “financial crisis,” and some trials may be put on hold. That, or they’re just going to get rid of people. Which do you think it’ll be? [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* When rankings like these are available, who cares about U.S. News? Here’s a list of the law schools you should go to if you want to actually make bank as a lawyer. [Forbes]
* Covington & Burling is the latest Biglaw firm to sign up for an office in Seoul. Memo to partners: this is not the spring “bonus” your associates care about. [Capital Business Blog / Washington Post]
* The jury in the Dharun Ravi privacy trial is set to begin its deliberations this morning. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in that room — or, more on point, a webcam. [Statehouse Bureau]
* Thomas Puccio, a former Biglaw partner known for his notorious clientele, RIP. [New York Times]
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Deaths, Facebook, Federal Judges, Non-Sequiturs, Prisons, Social Networking Websites, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Terence Evans
Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.11
* Professor Eugene Volokh poses this question to his readers (we considered a similar query before): “I Got Awful Grades My First Year in Law School. Should I Quit?” [Volokh Conspiracy] * I’m not that familiar with canon law, but I don’t think it looks favorably upon alleged groping of teenage girls. [La Crosse Tribune] […]
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Arnold & Porter, Associate Bonus Watch 2010, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Which Firms Are Definitely NOT Paying Spring Bonuses?
It’s April 29. Monarchists have long circled this day as an opportunity to praise the vestigial structures of imperial domination. But this day means a lot to people who earn their fortune through work instead of birth. Today is a huge day for Biglaw associates. For many, today is the day spring bonus payments hit […] -
Chadbourne & Parke, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Summer Associates
More Summer Associate Classes With 100% Offer Rates
Some summer associates are ending their summers on a very positive note. Quite a few firms have already informed law school students that after this summer fling, they’re interested in a more serious relationship. Since our last round-up of offices extending offers to 100% of their summer associates, we’ve heard from a few more contented […] -
Andrew Cuomo, Real Estate, Screw-Ups, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Stroock Strikes Back? The Firm's Client Sues Andrew Cuomo in Federal Court
We’ve previously covered a sticky situation involving an alleged drafting error by real estate lawyers at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. The dispute pits the buyers of luxury condos at the Rushmore, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, against the development company Extell, Stroock’s client. (Our prior coverage appears here, here, and here.) When we last […] -
Real Estate, Screw-Ups, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
A Strike Against Stroock: New York AG Rules Against Extell
Last summer, we wrote about an apparent drafting error by lawyers at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan that “could cost Stroock’s client millions.” Time for an update: it looks like the mistake will cost Stroock’s client millions. The Wall Street Journal reports: A long-simmering dispute between Extell Development Co. and individuals who agreed to buy […] -
Career Alternatives, Job Searches, Labor / Employment, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Weirdness
How Jeff Fenster Landed on the Workers' Comp BoardOr: How to Get a Government Job
Over the weekend — yes, we often publish over the weekend, so do check in with us — we wrote about the happy story of Jeffrey Fenster. Fenster, a 29-year-old lawyer who previously worked for a short time at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, was recently selected by Governor David Paterson to serve as executive […] - Sponsored
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Career Alternatives, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Weirdness
Who says government jobs are impossible to get?
We’re doing a little catch-up blogging this weekend, covering some stories we meant to cover during the week but didn’t get around to hitting. E.g., the update on Loren Friedman, a former Lawyer of the Day who doctored his law school transcript. This post is a happier one. It’s about a lawyer at a big […] -
New York Times, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, UVA Law, Weddings, Willkie Farr
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Rabbit, Rabbit
Holy crap. We did not Photoshop this picture. It actually appeared in a New York Times wedding announcement. Chuckle at it, if you must. But know that when you do, you’re fiddling while a venerable institution goes up in flames. December isn’t a great month to get married, and this December was particularly bad. Still, […] -
Associate Bonus Watch 2009, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Associate Bonus Watch: Stroock Strokes Associates With Cravath Bonus
Stroock’s bonus news is out. The firm will be paying the Cravath scale, if you hit 1900 hours. If you missed that target, you’re out of luck. Here’s the statement from the firm: 2009 bonuses are consistent with the “Cravath scale” with a presumptive threshold of 1900 hours to qualify for consideration. Merit has always […] -
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 […] -
Real Estate, Screw-Ups, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
A Very Expensive Typo? Stroock Isn't Sweating It
Earlier this week, we wrote about a serious drafting mistake by Stroock & Stroock & Lavan — maybe a typo, maybe not — that could cost Stroock’s client millions. Could Stroock look to its malpractice insurer for help? Maybe not, according to the New York Post: The gaffe exposes Stroock to the real possibility of […]
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Real Estate, Screw-Ups, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
A Very Expensive Typo?
We realize that we make our fair share of typographical errors here at ATL. But this is just a blog, not a document being sent to a client or filed with a court, and we’re more focused on substance than style, due to the speed of the news cycle and our desire to be… FIRST! […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Stroock Offers $75,000 in Stay Away Money
These incoming associate deferrals are getting out of control. Stroock is the latest firm to come up with an innovative plan to deal with its new class of first years. Above the Law has been able to confirm that Stroock is offering incoming first years a payment of $75,000 to leave the firm by July […] -
Layoffs, Start Dates, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Stroock Undergoes Layoffs for 10% of Associates and Staff
More bad news on the last day penultimate day of March. We’re now able to report that the firm so nice they named it twice, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, is laying off ten percent of its associates and staff. Here’s the statement from a Stroock spokesperson: For some time, we have watched, with concern, […] -
Biglaw, Salary Freeze, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Biglaw to Associates: 'Surprise! Your salary is frozen'?
We’ve been reporting on the Biglaw salary freeze heavily over the past month. Earlier this week, we did a round-up of firms that had announced their intention to keep 2009 salaries at 2008 levels. At that point, we knew of sixteen firms that had sent memos to their associates notifying them that raises were not […] -
No Offers, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Stroock Strikes
The tips keep rolling in about firms no offering summer associates. Today’s confirmed casualty report comes from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Unlike Wiley Rein, Winston & Strawn, and other reports we’ve heard that suggest firms are coalescing around a 90% offer rate, Stroock made offers to only 80% of their ’08 summer class. Stroock […] -
Arent Fox, Crowell & Moring, Dorsey & Whitney, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Vault 100 open threads - 2009, Venable
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: Vault 81-90 (2009)
Our Vault 100 series is winding down. We hope that the insiders have enjoyed the opportunity to brag (or to vent) about their firms. And that the curious have appreciated insights into life at various firms in the top 100. Here is the next bunch up for discussion (with their prestige scores in parentheses): 81. […] -
Biglaw, Deaths, Media and Journalism, Non-Sequiturs, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, Videos, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 07.05.07
* American Lawyer Media: Going, going, gone. Sold, for $630 million, to Incisive Media of the U.K. [Fishbowl NY; WSJ Law Blog] * When animals crazy bearded men attack. [Breitbart TV (video) via Drudge Report] * A Biglaw partner is not like a store clerk at the local convenience store. Or is he? [National Law […]