Nixon Peabody
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Biglaw
Did Nixon Peabody Get A Retainer Out Of Serial Lawyer-Stiffer Donald Trump?
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Nixon Peabody Partners Meet Over Repping Donald Trump, Managing Partner Called On To Step Down
Representing Donald Trump always ends badly for the lawyers involved.
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Podcasts
Some Clients Aren't Worth The Risk For Biglaw... And, Yes, We Mean Donald Trump
Discussing the risks of representing Trump, Sam Bankman-Fried's goofy courtroom sketch, and Biglaw's open letter to law schools. -
Biglaw
After Nixon Peabody Hitched Itself To Donald Trump, Blindsided Partners Told To Get Over It
Nixon Peabody's attempt to explain its representation of Donald Trump raises more questions than it answered. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Adds Donald Trump As Client... Rest Of The Firm May Not Be Too Happy About It
Most Biglaw firms have run from Trump. One Biglaw firm might be learning why. -
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Introduces New Lockstep Salary And Bonus Scale -- But Not Everyone Is Happy About It
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Biglaw
Former Biglaw Partner Gets A Trump Pardon
Convicted former Nixon Peabody partner got a coveted pardon. -
Biglaw
Furloughs Turn Into Layoffs At Yet Another Am Law 100 Firm
And some attorneys still remain furloughed. -
Biglaw
More Nixon Peabody Cost-Cutting Measures. This Time Associate Salaries Are On The Chopping Block.
More cuts on the horizon for this Am Law 100 firm. -
Biglaw
Law School Students PISSED At Nixon Peabody's Handling Of Summer Associate Program
COVID-19 ruins everything. -
Biglaw
Am Law 100 Firm Announces Attorney Layoffs And Furloughs
The firm's austerity measures continue.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.17.17
* Wells Fargo has a new compliance officer. Imagine a job that easy. Just saying “no, for the love of God, don’t do that!” over and over again pretty much covers it. [Law.com]
* Post McDonnell, Shelly Silver still thinks we need more protection for political bribery.[Law360]
* Rockland County doesn’t think everyone’s a winner at Nixon Peabody. [New York Law Journal]
* Former congressman and convicted felon Michael Grimm paid off his nearly half a million debt to Biglaw. And he’ll probably be back in the House soon because Staten Island is the absolute worst. It’s where New York put its garbage. [National Law Journal]
* When access to justice includes a foreign sovereign. [Litigation Finance Journal]
* Literally EVERYTHING about the Obama years was done with one hand tied behind his back. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* A review of Gaslight Lawyers (affiliate link), the history of steampunk criminal trials. [Foreward Reviews]
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Biglaw, Law Schools
Uh-Oh! Biglaw Firm Pares Down Its Summer Associate Program -- One Week Before Interviews
Contrary to its theme song, not everyone is a winner at this firm. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.03.17
* Nixon Peabody’s profits per partner are up. You know what that means… everyone’s a winner at Nixon Peabody! [Am Law Daily]
* Apparently House Republicans are drafting the Obamacare repeal in the Room of Requirement. [Slate]
* Mike Pence faces some harsh criticism amid reports that as governor he used private email for state business and got hacked, but you’re missing the real story of how this humanitarian really wanted to help that Nigerian prince. [Indianapolis Star]
* “At best, unprofessional” isn’t the ideal ceiling. [ABA Journal]
* JP Morgan whistleblower wants a new judge. The key to this story is seeing Judge Sweet described as “snarky.” [Law360]
* Sitting down with the newest leaders in Biglaw. [Law.com]
* A profile of one of 2017 Skadden Fellow Tarra Simmons from Seattle University Law, who spent 20 months in prison for drug offenses and plans to work on prisoner re-entry issues.
* Gavin Grimm has drawn support from 53 companies who all know how to properly caption a filing. [National Law Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.27.17
* If you’re working with PwC on any matters right now, say something nice, because they had a rough night. [USA Today]
* Nixon Peabody is looking for a new office and wants a major interior design overhaul. Interior design is important, guys. [Boston Globe]
* Random employee phone checks. That’s what it means to be a lawyer in government service these days. [Politico]
* Bill Cosby will face multiple accusers at his upcoming trial. [Courthouse News Service]
* The new plan for fighting for voting rights? More geometry expert witnesses. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
* North Carolina’s law banning sex offenders from Facebook is on tap at the Supreme Court today. How will the justices respond?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.06.16
* Please clap: Jeb! Bush has been tapped by Buchanan Ingersoll, a firm that employs almost 500 lawyers across 18 offices, to act as a “strategic consultant.” Bush will not be lobbying for the firm, but believes that “putting [his] knowledge and experience together with Buchanan’s professional acumen will help Buchanan’s clients grow and prosper.” [Big Law Business]
* Greg Gegenheimer, a white, male lawyer, has filed suit against the State Bar of Texas, accusing the organization of using an unconstitutional racial classification that discriminates against its white members. The Bar requires that at least four of its governing board members be racial minorities or women, and Gegenheimer wants to be considered for one of the minority seats that will soon be vacant. [WSJ Law Blog]
* “We need to learn to adapt so we can make the most of this talent. Any good leader needs to understand and figure out how to be relevant and resonate with their workforce.” Andrew Glincher, CEO of Nixon Peabody, thinks that Biglaw firms need to commit to collaboration and teamwork in order to succeed in the new economy, and to do that, they need to learn how to work better with their millennial lawyers. [Forbes]
* Bill Cosby will not be able to keep prosecutors from using his questionable 2005 civil suit testimony against him during his criminal sexual assault trial. Specifically, in exchange for being “promised” that he would not be prosecuted, Cosby testified that he gave women Quaaludes before engaging in allegedly consensual sexual acts with them. A judge recently ruled that no such written promise was ever made with Cosby. [Reuters]
* “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” If Senator Jeff Sessions is confirmed as attorney general, then years of work to normalize the use of medical and recreational marijuana could be quickly cached. As our very own marijuana law columnist has discussed, Sessions could interfere with the rights of millions who voted to legalize medical and recreational forms of the drug and arrest growers, retailers, and users. [POLITICO]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.26.16
* Somebody cry Justin Timberlake a river, because the pop star is currently under investigation for taking a ballot selfie in his home state of Tennessee. He may face up to 30 days in jail and a fine of $50 for posting a picture of himself at a polling station on his Instagram account, where it was seen by his more than 37 million followers. [Reuters]
UPDATE: Amy Weirich, District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee, said the following as to Timberlake’s alleged violation of the state’s ballot selfie law: “No one in our office is currently investigating this matter nor will we be using our limited resources to do so.”
* If Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump were to win the election, he’d be entering the presidency with an unprecedented number of unresolved legal cases. At present, Trump has at least 75 pending lawsuits, and they’d follow him to the White House where he’d continue to be dogged by them, leaving him distracted. [USA Today]
* “Diversity is the future; embrace it or you’re obsolete.” According to Andrew Glincher, Nixon Peabody’s managing partner, his firm has tried to increase its diversity because while the legal profession itself is “focused on past and precedent,” his firm is “future-focused,” and he finds that a diverse workforce makes his teams better overall. [Forbes]
* Want to attend a law school that will teach you about real-life music issues? Want to attend a law school that’s produced some of the most well-known music lawyers in the country? Then you may want to attend one of these 10 law schools (many in the T14), handpicked by Billboard for their elite alumni practicing in the music field. [Billboard]
* Citing changes in donor participation, Big Bend CrimeStoppers has reduced the reward being offered for information leading to an arrest in the 2014 killing of Florida State law professor Dan Markel. Considering three suspects have been arrested and charged — and one of them has already taken a plea deal — this isn’t so bad. [Tallahassee Democrat]