A Shinier, Happier Biglaw?
What does the ATL Insider Survey tell us about happiness in Biglaw?
So How Was OCI?
If you participated in your school's on-campus interviewing process, please let us know how it went.
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Which Firms Are The Student Favorites?
There are plenty of media entities measuring firms against one another: revenues (Am Law), “prestige” (Vault), practice area prowess (Chambers), and so on. Which firms are the law student favorites according to the ATL Survey?
The Lapsed Lawyers Survey Results
Lapsed lawyers: Why did they choose the law in the first place? Why did they leave? What are they up to now? Survey says....
The Great Non-Deferral of 2012
Are start dates for first-year associates at major law firms back to normal, i.e., where they were before the Great Recession? And what about the class sizes for entering associates?
ATL Survey Update: Great Unmet Expectations
Do law students have unreasonable expectations about their employment prospects? Survey says....
AI Is Killing Legal’s Billable Hour. It’s Also Repeating Its Worst Mistake
Law firms and legal departments are writing the future of the profession in separate rooms. What happens when they actually work together?
Finally… A Survey for Lawyers and Law Students!
Later this year, Above the Law will be launching a new, expanded Career Center. The new Career Center will be a resource for students and lawyers at all stages of their careers, and in all areas of legal practice (i.e., not just Biglaw). But we can be sure that news and insight into life at […]
Bonus Season Blues
Perhaps you’ve already heard that Cravath announced its 2011 bonus scale on Monday (swiftly followed by Skadden and Milbank), and apparently it’s 2009 all over again. We can’t help but wonder if this bonus season’s dyspepsia is typical of lawyers and law students generally....
Size Matters: Small Firms Rule
Valerie Katz would like to thank everyone who participated in her Thanksgiving survey about taking a break for the holidays. She is happy to report that an overwhelming 93.2% of small-firm respondents are able to take time off for holidays. So, is it easier to take time off at Biglaw?
When Will The Bonuses Come Out? Most Of You Think This Month.
On Friday, our new Breaking Media research guru Brian Dalton started running a poll asking you, our readers, when you thought the bonuses would start flowing. It'll be an interesting test case to rate the predictive power of Biglaw reader groupthink. The numbers say that you expect bonuses to drop any minute now....
Schenck Price Competes Smarter With Lexis+ With Protégé
LexisNexis sat down with John Ursin, Managing Partner at Schenck Price, to learn how the firm is using legal AI to strengthen client service and daily legal work.
Career Center: 2011 Summer Associate Survey Results (Part 2)
I know what you did this summer –- so thanks for filling out the 2011 Summer Associate Experience Survey. We’ve highlighted a few more of the unique and memorable summer programs in 2011. For more summer associate program information, check out the updated summer associate program sections of the law firm profiles on the Career […]
Career Center: 2011 Summer Associate Survey Results (and Some Summer Program Superlatives)
Now that 2011 summer programs have officially come to an end at Biglaw firms everywhere, law students are returning to their schools a little less naïve about working in Biglaw, a little bloated from all the free food, and seriously missing their fat summer associate paychecks. But how hard did they have to work, and […]
Career Center Survey Results: Who Worked on the Fourth of July?
According to the more than 1,000 responses we received to this week’s Career Center survey, 65% of respondents took the Fourth of July holiday off to celebrate their freedom or something like that. That’s a huge jump from the 27% of respondents who reported not working on Presidents’ Day, and the 34% of respondents who […]
Career Center Survey: Did You Work on the Fourth of July?
Back in the winter months, we surveyed Biglaw associates about working on the MLK Day and President’s Day holidays. Well, over half of respondents said they still clocked in on those holidays. But now that the weather is warmer, the barbecue grills are up and running, and partners are on vacation, surely more of you […]
Size Matters: Salary Survey Results
I know that all of you have been anxiously awaiting the results of the salary survey. I had envisioned the results post to be equal in excitement to the results shows for American Idol or Dancing With The Stars. Indeed, in anticipation of this monumental post, I commissioned a group of MIT grad students to […]