New York Times
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Akin Gump, Antonin Scalia, Brett Kavanaugh, D.C. Circuit, Drugs, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Hero and Heroin
Everyone loves a wedding, but everyone loves a lawyer wedding even more -- especially when Columbia Law has apparently taken over.This is a summer mega-LEWW, with five finalists and a loooooong list of also-rans at the end. Read on for a virtual nuptial feast.... -
Crime, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Rape, Scott Turow
Quote of the Day: A Passing Grade for Cyrus Vance
Mr. Vance performed well. The collateral damage to the career of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, who resigned in disgrace from the I.M.F., was clearly unfair, but that was caused largely by his sensational arrest, which Mr. Vance had no choice about effecting…. Given the attention paid to Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arrest, Mr. Vance deserves enormous credit for pulling […] - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
American Bar Association / ABA, New York Times, Pro Bono, Public Interest, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: A Modest Proposal
State bar associations could help address [low-income Americans’ need for legal services] by requiring lawyers to report their pro bono service — such disclosure would likely increase many lawyers’ service to the recommended 3 percent to 5 percent of their paid work. Another step is to allow nonlawyers into the mix. The American Bar Association […]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.08.11
* Interesting historical perspective from Professor Dave Hoffman on the current debate over legal education. One critic wrote that “there are too many lawyers in this country,” “many of them are not busy,” and “many of them are on the margin of starvation” — back in 1932. [Concurring Opinions] * And some thoughts on the […] -
Craigslist, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Romance and Dating
Quote of the Day: Desperately Seeking... Katherine
THINGS I KNOW: Your name is Katherine (or Catherine). You are a lawyer. You live in my building, on either the 9th or 11th floor. We have talked only once, but have been in the elevator together 2 times THINGS I DO NOT KNOW: How I can get to know you better — from a […] -
Lawyer Advertising, Litigators, Litigatrix, Small Law Firms, Trials
Size Matters: Fancy Nancy Has A Message For You
Are you thinking about taking some branding advice from Fancy Nancy? Maybe you shouldn't. Small firm columnist Valerie Katz advises that you go call yourself a 'trial lawyer' as opposed to a 'litigator'.... -
American Bar Association / ABA, Job Searches, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Student Loans
The Broken Law School Model: What Is To Be Done?
Does legal education need to be reformed? If so, how? The New York Times solicited views from a panel of experts (including Above the Law's own David Lat). -
Law School Deans, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, New York Times, Student Loans
Law Schools Head To The Bunker To Avoid New York Times Fallout
In the wake of the latest New York Times exposé on law schools, deans and administrators are spinning, spinning, spinning. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Student Loans
The Times 'Unearths' The Law School Scam, But Still Can't Explain It
The New York Times does another exposé on law schools, finding fault with some schools and their administrators. But what about the students who choose to go to these places? -
Job Searches, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Are You Listening, NYLS Applicants?
In these materials and in our conversations with students and applicants, we explicitly tell them that most graduates find work in small to medium firms at salaries between $35,000 and $75,000. — Richard Matasar, outgoing dean of New York Law School, quoted in a lengthy New York Times article entitled Law School Economics: Ka-Ching! (We’ll […] -
Goldman Sachs, Harvard, Merrick Garland, New York Times, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Out of Africa
We are in July -- peek wedding season. Take a look at these three newlywed couples and marvel at their credentials and overall fabulous qualities. -
Media and Journalism, New York Times, Quote of the Day, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Wal-Mart
Quote of the Day: I Don't Think 'Moderate' Means What You Think It Means
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the four moderates on the court, dissented from Justice Scalia’s broader analysis and sought a much narrower holding. — the New York Times editorial board, in an editorial about Wal-Mart v. Dukes entitled Wal-Mart Wins, Workers Lose. -
Adam Liptak, English Grammar and Usage, New York Times, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: But What's the Alternative?
I think that it’s probably wrong, in almost all situations, to use a dictionary in the courtroom. Dictionary definitions are written with a lot of things in mind, but rigorously circumscribing the exact meanings and connotations of terms is not usually one of them. — Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, […]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…
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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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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms.
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Boutique Law Firms, Defamation, Entertainment Law, Litigators, Martin Garbus, Small Law Firms
Size Matters: Hollywood Pit Bull Is Just Like Us
It has been said that one has truly arrived as a small-firm superstar when he appears in this column. Who said that? Someone, I am sure. While I simply cannot confer that honor to all small-firm attorneys, there is a second place honor: a feature in the New York Times. Martin Singer — the “guard […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Money, New York Times
Not on the Partner Track -- and Maybe That's Okay
Today’s New York Times has a front-page story by Catherine Rampell entitled At Well-Paying Law Firms, a Low-Paid Corner. The article focuses on the phenomenon of “career associates” or “permanent associates” at large law firms. These lawyers are not eligible for partnership consideration and earn less than traditional associates, but they do enjoy a better […] -
Alex Kozinski, New York Times, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: Contain Yourselves
LEWW is still coming off our royal wedding high. We’re not going to lie, people: As much as we love the legal wedding scene, we’ve never gotten out of bed at 5:30 to read about SCOTUS clerks tying the knot. But Will and Kate have flown off to happily ever after in their helicopter, so […] -
Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Student Loans, Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Are Law School 'Merit Scholarships' A Big Racket?
That’s the question essentially posed in a long and interesting New York Times article, Law Students Lose the Grant Game as Schools Win (which we previously mentioned on Saturday; yes, we do post on weekends). The piece is by David Segal, who also wrote a big and buzzy piece back in January, Is Law School […] -
Law Schools, Money, New York Times, Student Loans, Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Quote of the Day: Law School Scholarship Funny Money?
By the middle of second semester of that first year, everyone saw the system for what it was. We were furious. We realized that statistically, because of the curve, there was no way for many of us to keep our scholarships. But at that point, you’re a year in. They’ve got you. You feel stuck. […] -
Biglaw, Gay, Gay Marriage, King & Spalding, New York Times, Paul Clement, Politics, Quote of the Day
Quotes of the Day: When Ken Cuccinelli and the New York Times agree you screwed up, you screwed up.
King & Spalding’s willingness to drop a client, the U.S. House of Representatives, in connection with the lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was such an obsequious act of weakness that I feel compelled to end your legal association with Virginia so that there is no chance that one of my legal clients […] -
Crime, Law Professors, New York Times, Prisons, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: A Call for Reform
[T]he never-ending stream of futile petitions suggests that habeas corpus is a wasteful nuisance. By almost any measure, the use, and abuse, of habeas by convicted state prisoners is a failure, one that could corrode one of the most revered pillars of our legal system. — Professors Joseph Hoffmann and Nancy King, in an interesting […]