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Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Money, Small Law Firms, Student Loans
Law School Success Stories: High Risk, High Reward
When it comes to law school, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Sometimes you need to take a risk in order to reap the rewards. -
Police, Rank Stupidity, State Judges, Violence
Memo to NYPD: Please Don't Judo-Chop the Judge
A New York City police officer allegedly chose the wrong bystander to pick on during a street fight… - 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… -
Fabulosity, Federal Government, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Hotties, JPMorgan Chase, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Pictures, Real Estate, Supreme Court Clerks, U.S. Attorneys Offices, Wall Street
Lawyerly Lairs: A Federal Prosecutor's $25 Million Apartment
Government work doesn't pay particularly well. So how can a federal prosecutor afford to live in a $25 million apartment?
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Football, Law Professors, Law Schools, Money, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Student Loans
Non-Sequiturs: 05.29.12
* It must stink to be out $150 trillion dollars thanks to MF Global. Not as much as it stinks being bats**t crazy, but still. [Dealbreaker] * Here’s another way of rating the effectiveness of law professors that has nothing to do with whether or not they are good at being law professors. [Tax Prof Blog] * Sports agent who seems to be a professional defendant. [Sports Money / Forbes] * Debt, but no degree, sounds tough. But it’s not always worse than more debt with a useless degree. [Washington Post] * Romney embraces a birther. [ABC News] * This is a beautiful day to live in Manhattan. [Hayden Planetarium] -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Crime, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Partner Issues, Summer Associates
We Don't Have Any Summer Associates, Dewey?(And additional info about a possible criminal probe.)
What's going on with Dewey & LeBoeuf's summer associate program? And what's the deal with that possible criminal investigation? -
Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Will Chadbourne & Parke Wind Up Homeless?
Chadbourne & Parke was supposed to strike a deal to rent office space at 1 World Trade Center, but that deal has reportedly died. The firm is currently housed at 30 Rock, but it can’t stay where it is. So where will Chadbourne be going? -
Job Searches, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Plaintiffs Firms, Student Loans, Unemployment
The Latest News in the Law School Lawsuits
The litigation against law schools made the front page of Metro, New York's big commuter paper, this morning. What's the latest news? -
Biglaw, Fast Food, Food, Kenyon & Kenyon, Lawyerly Lairs, Nauseating Things, Rankings, White & Case
Biglaw's Best -- and Buggiest -- Cafeterias
Which major New York law firms have the greatest - and the grossest - cafeterias? - 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. -
Old People, State Judges, Trials
Confessions of a 64-Year-Old Rookie Trial Judge
Judge Ann Pfau was, until recently, the chief administrative judge for the state of New York. But late last year, after massive budget cuts, the lifelong bureaucrat ended up as a trial judge, “in the gray courthouse that hulks next to Brooklyn Borough Hall like some weird tribute to bleak Soviet architecture." Talk about an unexpected career move… -
Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Partner Issues, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Partner Sells in Brooklyn
A partner at a major law firm has put his Brooklyn Heights townhouse on the market for $10 million. Who is he? And, more importantly, what does his house look like? -
Crime, Jury Duty, State Judges, Trials
Elie Draws Jury Duty: Day Two -- Why Doesn't Anything Happen?
For my entire life, Republicans have been telling me government doesn’t work. It’s not true, government works just fine: taxes get collected, snow gets removed, communism gets toppled. Government works, it’s just extremely inefficient. It’s bureaucratic. It’s unable to effectively deal with exceptions. It wastes time. The waste of time is an unforgivable sin to […] -
Crime, Jury Duty, New York Times, State Judges, Television, Trials
Elie Draws Jury Duty: Day One -- Voir Dire
Elie Mystal has successfully avoided jury duty since he moved back to New York in 2003, but this week they finally caught up with him. This week, he had to perform his civic responsibility of sitting in judgment of his peers (like he doesn't do that enough already). Today he got an up-close look at the voir dire process in a criminal trial. While he was not picked, he feels like his McMurphy-esque fingerprints will be all over the case. -
Associate Bonus Watch 2011, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Did MoFo Just Use Cravath as an Excuse to Screw Over New York Associates?
Today we offer more evidence that if you are an associate working and living in New York, you are a chump. You are paying a higher cost of living than anywhere else in the country, and you're not getting paid any more for the effort. In fact, if you work at Morrison & Foerster, you might be getting a smaller bonus just because you work in New York....
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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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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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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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Crime, Drinking, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Paralegals, Police, Pregnancy / Paternity, Rape, Sex, Sex Scandals
Greg Kelly Won't Be Charged with Rape, But Who Is His Accuser? Where Did It All Go Down?
Greg Kelly, the popular television host, has been cleared of his rape allegations -- he won't even face charges. When word of the rape accusation first hit the presses, all we knew was that it had allegedly taken place at a “lower Manhattan law firm.” Well, now we know the name of the accuser, and the name of the "downtown law firm" where the alleged rape occurred.... -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Election 2012, Kasowitz Benson, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Sex, Sex Scandals
Morning Docket: 02.08.12
* Extra frothy: Santorum’s trifecta of wins in Minnesota, Colorado, and Missouri has made Mitt Romney angry. Because even a guy who wins nonbinding primaries can be dangerous to a man’s campaign. [New York Times] * Richard Holwell, the judge who presided over Rajabba the Hut’s case, will be resigning and starting a boutique firm […]
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Family Law, Kids, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: You Wagered Eleventy Billion Dollars?
There may be a case, which is for a court of law to decide, but that’s a made-up number. — Kate O’Brien Ahlers, a spokesperson for the New York City Law Department, commenting on the $900 trillion lawsuit filed against the city by Fausat Ogunbayo, a mother whose children were placed in foster care in […] -
Law Schools, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: The 99 Percent Edition
Most installments of Lawyerly Lairs, our inside look at the nests of legal eagles, involve residences of utter fabulosity. We realize that most Americans, or even most lawyers, don't live in such luxury. And we're interested in learning about how the other half lives. We'll get the 99 percent ball rolling with a look at two current law students who braved the brutal renters' market here in New York. What school do they attend, and how did their hunt turn out? -
Biglaw, Billable Hours, Blind Item, Hotties, Nude Dancing, Partner Issues, Summer Associates
Biglaw Blind Item: A Partner Walks Into a Strip Club....
Our latest Biglaw blind item concerns the sighting of a partner at a strip club. Right now you're probably thinking: yawn. A law firm partner at a strip club? As they say, it happens every day (or night -- and often gets billed to "business development"). But there are a few more details that make this item noteworthy.... -
Fabulosity, Fast Food, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Partner Issues, Pictures, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Cadwalader Castle in the Sky
Partners at high-powered Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where profits per partner in 2010 clocked in at almost $2.4 million, appreciate the finer things in life. Thankfully there are some CWT partners who are kicking it old school. They live in exclusive prewar coops on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Let's look at the Lawyerly Lair that a senior Cadwalader lawyer recently acquired -- on Park Avenue, one of the world's legendary thoroughfares -- for just a shade under $6 million.... -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Money, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Cravath Cribs (Part 1)(A non-partner's million-dollar penthouse.)
Partners at Cravath, where profits per partner exceeded $3 million in 2010, are definitely in the top 1 percent. But it seems that even non-partners are doing nicely for themselves, despite all the bonus bellyaching. Check out the million-dollar penthouse -- yay real estate porn! -- of one of Cravath's corporate lawyers. And she's not even a partner....