Baker Donelson
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Biglaw
Former Biglaw Partner Pleads Guilty For His Role In Ponzi Scheme
He's facing up to five years in prison. -
Biglaw
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Keeps Salary Cuts In Force, Will Make Associates Do Extra Work To Recoup Lost Pay
Associates at the firm seem less than thrilled.
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Biglaw
Another Am Law 100 Firm Turns To Furloughs And Salary Cuts Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Biglaw continues to feel the impact of coronavirus. -
Biglaw
45-Year-Old Biglaw Partner In Critical Condition With Coronavirus
Plus a warning from his wife. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.09.18
* Matt Whitaker thinks Marbury v. Madison should be overturned. We truly live in the dumbest timeline. [National Law Journal]
* Heightened security as Kavanaugh formally joins the Court. That’s a good idea, he seems like a dangerous man. [NPR]
* Amazon really excited about its new role as a leader in wrongly convicting people. [The Verge]
* Baker Donelson is just a big Skinner Box for tech adoption now. More firms should follow suit. [American Lawyer]
* Google is ending its practice of forcing sexual harassment claims into arbitration in another advancement spurred by the #MeToo movement. [Law360]
* Bryan Cave unveils new tech service to help clients evaluate the value of pursuing litigation. [Corporate Counsel]
* The Justice Department put out a new rule limiting asylum claims in violation of international law because that’s how this country rolls now. [Reuters]
* Voter suppression tactics don’t work as well after the votes are cast. [The Hill]
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Courts
Biglaw Firm Tries To Play Games With Federal Judge. Learns They Should Not Play Games With Federal Judge
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Biglaw
5 Biglaw Firms Make Fortune’s List Of The ‘Best Companies to Work For’ (2018)
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.08.18
* Okay, let’s get this straight: Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer isn’t Richard Jaffe, the one who voted for Doug Jones; no, Roy Moore’s Jewish lawyer is Martin Wishnatsky, the one who “has accepted Christ” as his savior. [Washington Post]
* In our last Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch, we focused a bit on the fact that rumored retiree Justice Anthony Kennedy hired a full set of clerks for OT 2018, but in case you missed it, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg already has a full set of clerks for OT 2019. The Notorious one isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. [Newsweek]
* Lawyers for the Department of Justice who are attempting to defend the Trump administration’s rescission of the DACA program have asked Judge William Alsup, who is handling the case, to ignore our “very stable genius” president’s recent tweets regarding the immigration policy. [The Recorder]
* Evan Greebel, pharma bro Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, is facing hard prison time for conspiracy, but one of the juror’s who convicted him is having second thoughts. The former Biglaw partner better hope that Judge Kiyo Matsumoto decides to reopen his case. [Big Law Business]
* In what may have been some sort of a Christmas miracle, the legal sector witnessed a very slight uptick in jobs in December. Beggars can’t be choosers, so a gain of 600 jobs is better than nothing at all. Employment in the profession is still nowhere near where it once was before the recession. [American Lawyer]
* Lewis Donelson, cofounder of Baker Donelson, RIP. [Memphis Business Journal]
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Biglaw, Summer Associates
Higher Pay For Fewer Summer Associates -- But Layoffs May Be Looming
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.01.16
* Is there a constitutional right to smoke weed? This defendant says he was prescribed medical marijuana to help him kick an opioid addiction, and his bail conditions must be revised to allow him to keep smoking it, lest his Sixth Amendment right to participate fully in his own defense be impaired. How high were the Katten Muchin lawyers who thought up this creative defense? [Reuters]
* Baker Donelson plans to merge with Ober Kaler to create one of the largest Biglaw firms in the country. Effective January 1, the firm will have more than 800 attorneys, and one of the largest health law practices in America. The $400+ million in revenue expected to be brought in by the merger isn’t too shabby, either. [Big Law Business]
* “[N]o one is dragging their feet here. The Justice Department is committed to working with the FBI to move the case forward.” AG Loretta Lynch and Deputy AG Sally Yates are trying to get FBI Director James Comey to wrap up his renewed interest in the Hillary Clinton email probe as quickly as possible before the election next week. [Politico]
* “You haven’t been able to do it with trademark law. You haven’t been able to do it with patent designs. We are now going to use copyright law to kill the knockoff industry. I don’t know that that’s bad. I’m just saying.” Differing opinions about the fashion industry emerged during oral arguments in the Star Athletica case. [New York Times]
* “We are all feeling a little less confident. … [T]here is an incredible amount of uncertainty that comes with this.” Some U.S. firms with offices in London and Europe are contemplating what Brexit’s effects will be on their business — or if Brexit will have any effect on their business at all. At this point, no one knows. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
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Biglaw, Layoffs
Attorney Layoffs Hit Well-Liked Biglaw Firm
It seems this firm had all the work... until it didn't. -
Biglaw, Rankings
Which Biglaw Firms Are The Best Places To Work?
Which firms had pay that was high enough, perks that were good enough, and environments that were nurturing enough to make the cut? -
Biglaw, Health Care / Medicine
Leaked Memo: Which Biglaw Firm May Bar Some Attorneys From Insurance Coverage?
Today, we can add one more firm to the growing list of legal employers where workers feel they've been wronged by management in terms of their insurance coverage. -
Biglaw, Minority Issues, Rankings
The Best Law Firms For Diversity (2016)
Which firms fared well in three big surveys of diversity within Biglaw? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.27.15
* It’s summer associate season in Biglaw, so here are some tips to help you not completely screw up your futures. (But if you do catch someone misbehaving, make sure to send your friends here at ATL a tip.) [MoneyBeat / Wall Street Journal]
* Break out the vuvuzelas, because Loretta Lynch just scored herself a gigantic GOOOOAAAALLLL!!!! Several of FIFA’s top officials were arrested in Switzerland for extradition to America to face federal corruption charges over years of alleged racketeering and wire fraud. [New York Times]
* “Not all the evidence that you hear and see will be riveting.” The Dewey & LeBoeuf financial crimes trial may be sexy for Biglaw aficianados, but at least one of the prosecutors on the case had the courtesy to warn jurors they’d be bored. [Am Law Daily]
* Which Biglaw firms are the best places for new fathers to work? According to a recent report from Fatherly, a digital parenting resource for men, Arnold & Porter, Alston & Bird, and Baker Donelson all have pretty nice paternity leave policies. [Nooga.com; Fatherly]
* At some law firms, working part-time or on a flexible schedule isn’t necessarily a career killer for women, but that doesn’t change the fact that at other firms, doing so means that “they’re no longer on that partnership/management track.”[Crain’s Chicago Business]
* Daniel Meltzer, Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, former Principal Deputy Counsel to President Obama, and federal courts scholar, RIP. [Legal Theory Blog]
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Biglaw, Rankings
Which Law Firms Are Considered Some Of The ‘Best Companies to Work For’?
Which firms had pay that was high enough, perks that were good enough, and environments that were nurturing enough to make the cut? -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Rankings
6 Law Firms Make Fortune's List Of The ‘Best Companies to Work For’
Six law firms made the list -- was your firm one of them?