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In-House Counsel, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Shameless Plugs
How To Get Published In The New York Times
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann explains how he got a piece published in the New York Times. -
Biglaw, Gender, Movies, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Women's Issues
Can Women Lawyers Have It All? Sure, But Not In Biglaw
These women were ready to conquer the world in Biglaw, but they reality stepped in. - Sponsored
Mitigating M&A Cyber Risk: Pre- & Post-Acquisition Due Diligence
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Bloomberg, Career Alternatives, New York Times, Videos, YouTube
A Law School Graduate's Puzzling Career Choice
Are you a crossword puzzle aficionado? Meet the king of your world, who's a lawyer by training.
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Boutique Law Firms, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Media and Journalism, Money, New York Times, Partner Issues, Real Estate, Small Law Firms, Sonia Sotomayor
Lawyerly Lairs: A Small-Firm Lawyer's Big-Ticket Apartment
Big bucks beyond Biglaw: a partner at an elite boutique just bought a $12.5 million apartment. -
Crime, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Technology
New York Times Has No Idea Reporter Broke A Law By Using Someone Else's 'HBO Go' Password
But which law? Here's a hint: it's the same one public document hacker Aaron Swartz allegedly violated. -
Asians, Biglaw, Lawyerly Lairs, New Jersey, New York Times, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Quinn Emanuel Attorney's Housing Hunt
How much did this Quinn Emanuel associate pay for his new home? -
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From Across the Desk: Good Enough for the NFL
Bruce MacEwen asks: What is wrong with the current hiring process employed by large law firms? Oh, where to begin.... -
Education / Schools, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Pets, Student Loans
In Defense of Law School: It's Not the Only Alleged Culprit in Higher Education
This 30-year-old woman has $312,000 in student loans and earns just $60,000 -- and no, she's not a lawyer. What does she do for a living? - Sponsored
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Education / Schools, Job Searches, New York Times
If College Is The New High School, Is Law School The New Liberal Arts College?
Does degree inflation lead people to get too much education? -
Biglaw, Blank Rome, Books, California, Confirmations, Defamation, Lateral Moves, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Musical Chairs, New York Times, Partner Issues, Privacy, Prostitution, SCOTUS, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 01.30.13
* Justice Sotomayor’s memoir made the NYT’s best-seller list, and in terms of sales, she’s officially beating the pants off other Supreme Court justices who’ve released books of a similar nature. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* In case you were sleeping under a rock yesterday when this happened, John Kerry was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state. Don’t think we’ll be getting a Texts From John Tumblr, though. [New York Times]
* Despite having a “pretty spectacular” year, Blank Rome’s legal secretaries may soon find themselves blankly roaming in search of new employment. Better hurry up, the buyout offer expires on Friday! [Legal Intelligencer]
* Straight up now tell me, do you really wanna sue me forever? Corey Clark once claimed he had an affair with American Idol judge Paula Abdul, and now he claims MoFo and Gibson Dunn defamed him. [Am Law Daily]
* In this round of musical chairs, we learn that Orrick hoovered up three energy and project finance partners from Bingham, one of whom will co-chair the firm’s U.S. energy group. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* Remember the Zumba prostitution ring? Now we know you can’t be prosecuted for secretly filming Johns in the act in Maine, because there’s no expectation of privacy in “bordellos, whorehouses, and the like.”[Wired]
* Energy drink makers are facing class action suits over claims made about their products. Fine, Red Bull may not give you wings, but it tastes like piss, and that’s gotta count for something, dammit. [National Law Journal]
* Much like herpes, Lindsay Lohan’s legal drama is the gift that just keeps on giving. Her longtime lawyer Shawn Holley wants out, and her new lawyer, Mark Heller, isn’t even licensed to practice in California. [CNN]
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Deaths, Defamation, Education / Schools, Football, Howrey LLP, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Musical Chairs, New York Times, Partner Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
Morning Docket: 01.18.13
* “The bottom line is … I’m the 800-pound-gorilla that you want to settle with.” By the way, if you weren’t sure, Howrey’s trustee Allan Diamond wasn’t kidding about suing the firm’s former partners. “Either we’re going to cut deals, or I’m suing you.” [Am Law Daily]
* It takes two to do the partnership tango: in the expansion of its Financial Institutions Group, Goodwin Procter picked up Brynn Peltz, an attorney with more than 20 years’ experience, and an ex-partner at Latham and Clifford Chance. [Fort Mill Times]
* Hello, predictive coding! Goodbye, jobs! Not only can computers do the work of lawyers on the cheap, but they can do it more intelligently, too. Get ready to welcome our new digital overlords. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* Another day, another op-ed article about the law school crisis in the pages of the New York Times. But at least this one is about something most can support: changing the third year of law school. [New York Times]
* As it turns out, with 82 applications for the program’s first five spots, there’s actually a demand for Yale Law’s Ph.D. in Law. So much for this being “[t]he worst idea in the history of legal education.” [National Law Journal]
* Linebacker Jonathan Vilma’s defamation suit against NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in connection with Bountygate was dismissed. Wonder when Goodell will suspend Vilma for thinking he could win. [Bloomberg]
* Francis Lorson, former chief deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, RIP. [Blog of Legal Times]
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Ask the Experts, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Lateral Moves, Partner Issues
Time for the Law Firm PPM?
Does a law firm have an obligation to disclose certain information about itself in advance to a prospective lateral partner? If so, what might such a disclosure look like? -
Andrew Cuomo, B for Beauty, Biglaw, Department of Justice, FTC, Google / Search Engines, Law Schools, Morning Docket, New York Times, Patents, State Judges, Wall Street Journal
Morning Docket: 01.04.13
* The Department of Justice has reached yet another settlement in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill case, this time with Transocean Ltd. for $1.4 billion in civil and criminal penalties and fines. [National Law Journal]
* “[W]ith success comes regulatory scrutiny.” Google convinced the FTC to close its ongoing antitrust probe by promising to change its allegedly shady patent usage and purportedly skewed search terms. [Bloomberg]
* According to Littler Mendelson, federal contractors might want to consider sending out sequestration-related layoff notices to employees in order to comply with the WARN Act. America, f**k yeah! [Government Executive]
* Governor Andrew Cuomo will have a major impact on the New York Court of Appeals when appointing new judges. It could be a partisan decision, but his father, former Governor Mario Cuomo, insists his son will leave politics at home. [Capital New York]
* When you write in defense of the value proposition of law school, you wind up in the op-ed pages of the NYT. When you tell the truth about it, you wind up in the opinion pages of the WSJ. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Remember Danae Couch, the Texas Tech law student who was crowned as Miss Texas? She’ll compete for the Miss America title next weekend. If you’d like to help her become a finalist, you can vote for her here! [KFYO]
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Morning Docket: 01.03.13
* Dewey know how much money this failed firm has run up on its tab for legal advisers since May? It’s quite the pretty penny — $14.8 million — and that amount actually includes some pretty ridiculous fees and charges, like $21,843 for photocopies. [Am Law Daily]
* Everyone’s glad that we didn’t nosedive over the fiscal cliff, but the people who are the most excited about it seem to be Biglaw partners. This wasn’t the best bill, and more uncertainty means more work, which means more money. [National Law Journal]
* It looks like we’re never going to find out what the Justice Department’s legal justification was for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, because a federal judge upheld the validity of its secret memo. [New York Times]
* Everyone flipped out over Instagram’s money filter, but they’re keeping relatively quiet about this mandatory arbitration provision. Quick, post some pseudo-legalese on your Facebook wall. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* Good news, everyone! Thanks to this ruling, in Virginia, you can be as nasty and negative as you want to be on Yelp without fear that your voice will be censored… kind of like the Above the Law comments. [All Things D]
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Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Student Loans
Chuck Klosterman Becomes the Latest Human to Misunderstand the Point of Law School
The Ethicist invents a rosy scenario in which law schools are meeting their moral responsibilities. But the facts of the law school business model point towards more sinister motives... -
In-House Counsel, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Student Loans
Inside Straight: Whiffing At The NYT On The Future Of Legal Education
Columnist Mark Herrmann, an in-house lawyer and former law firm partner, offers his thoughts on reforming legal education. -
Biglaw, Blog Wars, Blogging, Bloomberg, Cellphones, Crime, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Music, New York Times, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology, Videos, YouTube
Non-Sequiturs: 11.30.12
* Just in case you haven’t seen enough responses to the Case Western Law dean’s New York Times op-ed, here are some more. (Plus, with this, you’re getting the additional bonus of an incredibly sad letter from a young lawyer.) [Associate's Mind] * Oh mon dieu! Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s legal team is now denying that that there was ever a settlement in the hotel maid’s sexual assault suit civil suit, and especially not a $6M settlement — because that’s apparently “flatly false.” [Slate] * You’ve probably led a sad and lonely existence if you’re laying on your death bed and worrying about who will inherit your iTunes library. Don’t worry, they’re headed to a “legal black hole,” anyway. [Legal Blog Watch] * And in other news, some teenagers are so obsessed with their tech gadgets, like cellphones, that they’d allegedly be willing to kill their family and pry the damn thing from their cold dead hands. [Legal Juice] * Please remember to vote for your favorite law blog (coughcough Above the Law coughcough) in the Blawg 100 in the News/Analysis category, and all the rest of the sites you read in other categories, too! [ABA Journal] * After the jump, Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia speaks with law firm consultant Tim Corcoran of the Corcoran Consulting Group about the future of rainmaking and business development in Biglaw…. -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, New York Times, Student Loans
Students and Recent Graduates Speak Out About Dean Mitchell's Defense of Law School
Students react to the law dean's op-ed claiming that law school is still a good investment... -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, New York Times, Student Loans
Law Dean Takes to the New York Times Op-Ed Page to Blame Media for Declining Law School Applications
This law dean doesn't just hope New York Times readers are idiots, his school's business model relies on people being idiots... -
Lawyerly Lairs, Money, New York Times, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Two Kitchens, One Couple(Or: An actress turned lawyer's uptown abode.)
An actress from an iconic film of the 1990s went to law school, got married, and had a family. They recently moved to a Harlem townhouse. Let's have a look-see....