Promotions
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Biglaw, Sponsored Content
Lateral Link Announces Principal And Director Level Promotions
Lateral Link is pleased to announce our company promotions for 2021! -
Headhunters / Recruiters, Sponsored Content
Lateral Link's 2018 Promotion Class
We congratulate our colleagues on their success and urge any attorneys considering a lateral move to reach out to them. - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Career Center, Career Files, Lawyers
From The Career Files: The Enemy Between Your Ears: How To Not Stand In Your Own Path To Success
It isn’t unusual to doubt yourself. However, looking back, I’m also able to see that my thinking and lack of emotional intelligence played an important role in my job satisfaction.
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Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves
Lateral Link Year-End Promotions
We congratulate our colleagues on their success and urge any attorneys considering a lateral move to reach out to them. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.05.16
* Who recently made partner at Kirkland & Ellis, Covington & Burling, Goodwin Procter, and Curtis Mallet-Prevost? Here’s a nice round-up that highlights the names of the 112 associates who were promoted at these four firms. Don’t be too shocked by that high number; the vast majority of partner promotions were made at Kirkland, where 81 attorneys were welcomed into the ranks of the firm’s non-equity partnership. [Big Law Business]
* In what’s hailed as a victory for gay rights, Massachusetts expanded the legal definition of the word “parent” to be read “in a gender-neutral manner, to apply where a child is ‘born to [two people], is received into their joint home, and is held out by both as their own child.'” The state’s high court also allowed parentage laws to be construed to apply to members of same-sex couples without biological ties to the children. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Today, SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case challenging “judge-made law,” that is, what is and isn’t considered insider trading. If you trade on information received from a third party who received it from an insider, is that insider trading? Even Mark Cuban wants to know, writing in an amicus brief that “no one should be prosecuted for conduct that Congress is either unwilling or unable to define.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* The Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a law that forced abortion providers to save fetal tissue samples from patients younger than 14 years old, on top of other broad restrictions. The court unanimously ruled that the law violated the state constitution’s “one subject” rule. In a separate concurrence, four judges would’ve struck down the law as an unconstitutional burden on a woman’s right to have an abortion. [Reuters]
* Much like America, the Supreme Court seems to have a problem with race this Term. The high court will be hearing three divisive cases having to do with racial slurs, racial rhetoric, and racial epithets, and the Court may very well be divided along ideological lines, resulting in 4-4 deadlocks thanks to the seat left vacant by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and the Senate’s refusal to give Judge Merrick Garland a hearing. [CNN]
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In-House Counsel
The In-House Career Ladder Stepping Stool
The career ladder for in-house counsel is more like a stepping stool with a few rungs at wildly intermittent intervals. -
Biglaw, Minority Issues
High Minority Attrition Rates Continue To Plague Large Law Firms
Columnist Renwei Chung highlights findings from the annual Vault/MCCA Law Firm Diversity Survey. -
Biglaw, Partner Issues, Rankings
Which Biglaw Firms Promote The Most (And Least) To Partnership?
Even for those fortunate enough to land a Biglaw associate job in this market, the prospect of eventual promotion to partnership is exceedingly slim. - Sponsored
Law Firms Now Have A Choice In Their Document Comparison Software
Six months on since its launch, over 200 firms worldwide are now using Draftable Legal for accurate and reliable document comparison, including UK Top 50… -
In-House Counsel
Moonlighting: Yes, They’re Incompetent And Yes They Just Got Promoted -- Deal with It!
What do you do when the dummy in the office next to you gets promoted -- and you don't? -
In-House Counsel, Money
Moonlighting: Why Just Being a Great Lawyer Won’t Get You a Promotion
In-house promotions are tricky. There are so many different kinds of companies, and so many things that can go wrong when you’re looking for a promotion. Some companies are upfront about the process: they’ll inform you if you’re being considered, let you know which committees need to approve, etc. Others are kind of like, “Uh, […]