Goodwin Procter
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Biglaw
Thanks To Omicron Variant, Elite Biglaw Firm Makes Office Work 'Voluntary' For Lawyers Through March 2022
Things continue to change for the future of law firm office work due to COVID variants. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
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Biglaw
Top Biglaw Firm Raises Associate Salaries Because Of Course They Do
Elite firms are piling on this new compensation scale. -
Biglaw
Goodwin Procter's 'Flexible' Reopening Plan: A Three-Day Workweek With 'Hoteling' Of Office Space
Say goodbye to your office space if you don't plan to come in three or more days each week. -
Biglaw
Top 25 Biglaw Firm Hands Out Even More Money (On Top Of Bonuses)
This firm cares about its everyone's mental health, and they're paying for it. -
Biglaw
Everyone Shares In The Bonus Fun In Latest Biglaw Spring Special Bonus Announcement
Who *doesn't* like big bonuses? -
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Biglaw
Top 25 Biglaw Firm Gives Out More Money (On Top Of Year-End And Special Bonuses)
Working from home costs money, and this firm knows it. -
Biglaw
Top 25 Am Law Firm Announces Special Bonuses -- But There's A Catch
Will you receive a special bonus? That depends on your billables. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.20.20
* A lawyer has been suspended from practice for five drunk driving arrests. This attorney needs to learn how to “pass” a bar… [Bloomberg Law]
* A pregnant Pennsylvania lawyer completed a hearing in a murder case last week after her water broke during the proceedings. [Today]
* A curfew in Miami, Florida, has been eliminated thanks to a lawsuit filed by a local strip club. [Fox News]
* Los Angeles is facing a lawsuit over mamajuana delivery licenses. [Independent]
* Goodwin Procter has promoted a trans lawyer to equity partnership. [Bloomberg Law]
* A Rhode Island criminal trial may be decided by a semicolon in a statute. Still waiting for the Oxford comma to make an appearance in a criminal trial… [Providence Journal]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm That Nixed COVID Appreciation Bonuses For Associates Gives Them To Staff
Here's hoping staff special bonuses spreads through Biglaw.
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Biglaw
Goodwin Refuses To Pay Special Fall Bonuses, Promises 'Competitive' Cash Come January 2021
Associates are disappointed, but not surprised. -
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Biglaw
Even A Billion Dollars In Revenue Can't Stop COVID-19 Layoffs
Am Law 50 firm lays off staff amid coronavirus upheaval. -
Biglaw
Oh, That's Right! Bunches Of Biglaw Firms Still Haven't Announced Bonuses.
Like clockwork, this firm announced its bonuses at the end of January. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Announces 'Significant Expansion' Of Benefits Offerings
A big new benefits announcement involving vacation time, parental leave, and more. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.21.19
* “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity.” Children being detained at the border are in desperate need of legal assistance and humanitarian aid. [NBC News]
* Disgraced former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore, a “polarizing [] Republican,” has decided to launch yet another Senate bid after losing during his first go round. This time, even President Trump warned him against trying again. [New York Times]
* Puff, puff, pass this vote: New York may not have been able to legalize marijuana, but lawmakers are trying to do the next best thing by decriminalizing it. Fines for “violations” will be no higher than $200 and last convictions can be expunged upon request. [New York Law Journal]
* In case you missed it, Slack had its IPO yesterday, opening at $38.50 a share. Goodwin Procter certainly didn’t miss it, because the firm is looking to earn $2.5 million for its work on the company’s stock market debut. [Big Law Business]
* Shaakirrah Sanders, a black female professor at Idaho Law, has filed suit against the school the university, and a former dean, alleging race and gender discrimination and retaliation. She is the only professor of color and woman of color who has earned tenure at the school. [Idaho Statesman]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non Sequiturs: 04.21.19
* What’s the future of Elizabeth Prelogar, the beauty queen turned Harvard Law School grad turned Supreme Court clerk turned Team Mueller member? Not clear, except that it’s blindingly bright. [Ozy]
* How often do you see this? A federal judge praises counsel — specifically, J. Christian Adams of the Election Law Center, Douglas R. Cox of Gibson Dunn, Michael E. Rosman of the Center for Individual Rights, and local counsel Mun Su Park — for their “conscientious billing practices.” [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]
* Another Lawyerly Lair of Jonathan Schiller, of Boies Schiller Flexner fame: a stunning modern retreat on Martha’s Vineyard, designed by his son, architect Aaron Schiller (whose firm also did the new BSF offices in Hudson Yards). [Martha’s Vineyard]
* Amicus brief of the month: a compelling — and, sadly, entertaining (see the Appendix) — analysis of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s utterly incoherent approach to supposedly “immoral or scandalous” trademarks, filed by William Jay and Goodwin Procter on behalf of law professors Barton Beebe and Jeanne Fromer. [Supreme Court of the United States]
* Here’s a clear and concise explanation of the “Rule of 80,” taking “senior status” as a federal judge, and what this all means for the ideological balance of the judiciary, courtesy of Ed Whelan. [Bench Memos / National Review]
* How should we think about President Donald Trump’s branding of the press as “the enemy of the people”? Negatively, to be sure — but let’s also keep in mind that the media is not a monolith, as First Amendment lawyer Charles Glasser helpfully reminds us. [Daily Caller]
* Stephen Cooper survived a stabbing — then went on to defend violent criminals for many years as a federal public defender. [Alabama Political Reporter]
* Cooper argues that we need to be less punitive and more thoughtful in our treatment of offenders — and Joel Cohen seems to agree, defending an unusual but wise sentence recently handed down by Judge Valerie Caproni (S.D.N.Y.). [New York Law Journal]