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Top Am Law Firm Starts Diversity Pipeline Program For Incoming Talent
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Biglaw
Am Law 50 Firm Offers Retroactive Pay For All, Plus Amazing Benefits For Lawyers Who Became Caretakers During Pandemic
This is a unique program that's sure to be appreciated by all.
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Biglaw
Orrick Rolls Back All COVID-19 Salary Cuts
They're committing to matching last year's bonus scale, too (but no fall bonuses). -
Biglaw
Am Law 50 Firm Offers Special Wellness Stipends For Employee 'Grit' During Pandemic
Kudos to this firm for its kindness during tough times. -
Biglaw
Am Law 100 Firms To Close On Election Day To Get Out The Vote
Will your firm offer a paid holiday to support voting rights across America? -
Biglaw
Orrick Rolls Out Salary Cuts Paired With 'Make Whole' Cash Rewards
No other firm has announced a program like this to 'repay' its employees. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Tell Associates To Work From Home To Protect Them From Coronavirus
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The Best Bonus Of Them All: Premium Cash Plus Extra Money To Take A Vacation
This firm is offering associates the chance to invest in their careers and in work-life balance. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.08.19
* Paul Manafort got 4 years out of a possible 24. A lot of breathless ranting will come out of this but the reality is 4 years is a significant amount of time to be incarcerated and the guidelines are crazy. Don’t be mad that Manafort got too little, be mad that the system generally (and Judge Ellis in particular) unquestioningly applies the guidelines to give far too much to poor and minority defendants. [CNN]
* Frankly, the charges that should earn Manafort heavy jail time are the charges of lying to the Mueller probe because that’s where there’s a significant interest in setting punitive disincentives. And Judge Jackson may have a very different view on how “otherwise blameless” Manafort’s been. [Daily Beast]
* While we’re on these never-ending Trump orbit stories, Michael Cohen is suing Trump for legal fees since, he points out, all his problems stem from work he did in the official course of his duties. [New York Law Journal]
* Wearing a disguise to court is totally normal lawyer behavior. [New York Times]
* Orrick joins the $1B revenue club. [The Recorder]
* Remember the drunken airline rant lady? She’s facing jail time. [Legal Cheek]
* George Mason receives largest gift in school history, but it’ll never match the gift they gave prospective students the ATL community when they descriptively renamed their law school ASS Law. [Inside Higher Ed]
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Biglaw
The Best Bonus Of All? This Biglaw Firm Will Pay Associates To Take A Vacation
This firm will reward its associates with something that's even more exciting than a market-shattering bonus. -
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Biglaw
Elite West Coast Biglaw Firm Comes To Play In The Compensation Game
The firm is spreading the wealth!
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Biglaw
The First Biglaw Firm To Willingly Do Away With Its Mandatory Arbitration Policy
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Biglaw
5 Biglaw Firms Make Fortune’s List Of The ‘Best Companies to Work For’ (2018)
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Technology
Biglaw Firm Brings On Technology Development Ninjas
Why wait for a legal tech solution when you can build it yourself. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.13.17
* The Supreme Court, without any dissents, has allowed the Trump administration’s refugee ban to stand while the case proceeds, temporarily staying a Ninth Circuit ruling to the contrary. As my colleague Elie Mystal wondered yesterday, “Why is Kennedy stepping on the Ninth Circuit here? Why do any of them want this?” [New York Times]
* Not that recommending prosecutions is part of her job, but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders thinks that the Justice Department might want to prosecute former FBI director James Comey because his leaks “were improper and likely could have been illegal.” [Washington Post]
* “It’s going to be death by a thousand cuts if people keep leaving at this rate.” Ropes & Gray seems to be leaking partners like a sieve. In fact, 19 partners have parted ways with the firm since this past January. Not to worry, because according to management this is fine. [Legal Week]
* Lynne Hermle, a partner in the labor and employment practice group at Orrick, thinks that in-house counsel need to adopt their own versions of the Mansfield Rule when hiring and staffing their trial teams. Why not have a woman lead your trial team? Juries tend to listen to them. [Business Insider]
* Rob Ranco, a Texas personal injury attorney who landed himself on the front page of Breitbart last week after tweeting that he’d “be ok if #BetsyDevos was sexually assaulted,” resigned from his firm, agreeing with his managing partner that he’d crossed “a line that simply cannot be uncrossed.” [Law.com]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.12.17
* Biglaw’s about to get hit hard by an economic downturn. [Law.com]
* Looks like Ralph Baxter is announcing a run for congress this afternoon. [Am Law Daily]
* Dewey think a 4 year sentence sounds fair? [Law360]
* Judge calls fee request “attempted bank robbery.” This is why you never request fees while wearing a rubber Nixon mask and carrying a shotgun. [Law.com]
* Fascinating overview of the complex fight over Cravath’s efforts to block victims from getting previously produced discovery materials. [Litigation Daily]
* An interview with Ben Brafman, including a delightful explanation of why he has the hardest job in the world. [Coverage Opinions]
* California moving to limit access of federal immigration officials to those in the state court system. [The Recorder]
* What schools do the best job of placing AGs, SGs, United States Attorneys, and federal judges? The answer will absolutely not shock you at all. [Empirical SCOTUS]
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Biglaw
The 2017 A-List Arrives To Salve That Itch You Had For Another Law Firm Ranking This Week
The top 10 law firms around.