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English Grammar and Usage, Reader Polls
Grammer Pole of the Weak: When Did 'Their' Start Replacing 'His or Her'?
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. Last week, we found out that our readers, 81% of them, in fact, couldn’t care less about being polite […] -
Bar Exams, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Minority Issues, Police, Racism, Reader Polls, Small Law Firms, UVA Law
An Update On Johnathan Perkins: Did He Get His Law Degree?
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Affirmative Action, English Grammar and Usage, Minority Issues, Politics, Racism
Grammer Pole of the Weak: The Meaning of 'Diversity'
In Grammer Pole of the Weak, we typically tackle issues of English grammar and usage, as well as questions of style (in terms of legal writing, not fashion). Last week, we delved into the fun topic of em-dash spacing, and learned that our readers are essentially deadlocked on whether to use a space before and […]
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Admin, Announcements, Contests, Law Professors, Law Schools, Reader Polls
ATL's 2011 Lawyer of the Year: The Winner!
Above the Law's 2011 Lawyer of the Year contest is now over. Thanks to everyone who nominated a lawyer; thanks to our finalists, for being such accomplished and interesting individuals; and thanks to all the voters, who picked our victor. And the winner is.... -
Advertising, Bonuses, Career Center, Money, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Survey Results: All I Want for Christmas Is to Get Out of Debt
Christmas 2011 turned out to be a banner year for retailers, and most consumers felt pretty confident about the economy — but don’t tell that to the lawyers. The results are in and the vast majority of survey respondents aren’t purchasing anything fun with their bonuses. Unlike Elie, 52% of Above the Law readers are […] -
Advertising, Bonuses, Career Center, Money, Reader Polls, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center: The Night Before Bonus Season – A Survey
Need some more holiday cheer? Take a look at this irreverent poem from the Career Center, and then take a poll about your 2011 bonuses.... -
Admin, Announcements, Contests, Reader Polls
ATL's 2011 Lawyer of the Year: The Finalists!
The year is quickly drawing to a close, but we have unfinished business to conduct here at Above the Law. We still have to crown our Lawyer of the Year for 2011. The polls will remain open until January 3 at 11:59 PM. And the nominees are.... -
English Grammar and Usage, Reader Polls
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Em Dash Spacing
In this week's Grammer Pole, we'll be turning to a question of spacing. We've already dealt with sentence spacing -- specifically, whether one space or two should be used between sentences -- but today, we're going to take a look at the em dash. Should you be using a space before and after an em dash? - Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Disability Law, Drugs, Education / Schools, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Reader Polls
Is Using Adderall to Get Through Exams the Worst Thing in the World?
A little while back, we asked how many of you had tried Adderall, the ADHD drug that some students use to get a boost around study time. A whopping 30% of you said you had tried the drug and 70% of you are lying. But now let's ask the fun question. Is using Adderall that big of a deal? -
Blogging, Drinking, Facebook, Pornography, Reader Polls, Shopping, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Video games
Ways and Means of Mass Distraction
Thoreau admonished us that we cannot “kill time without injuring eternity.” But what did he know? That proto-hippie pond-fetishist could not have imagined today’s world, where our collective attention spans have shriveled to goldfish levels and so much actual productive white-collar labor can be, to an observer, indistinguishable from simply loitering in front of a […] -
Bad Ideas, California, Cheapness, Holidays and Seasons, Money, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Shopping, Shopping For Others, Small Law Firms
California Firm Puts the 'Ghetto' Into 'Re-Gifting'
I’m much more likely to throw away a gift or give it to charity than to regift something I already have or don’t want. I think I’d live in fear of the original gift-giver meeting up with the regift recipient and talking about how I was a bad friend for orchestrating the whole mess. I’d […] -
Biglaw, Holidays and Seasons, Money, Paralegals, Reader Polls, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Shopping, Shopping For Others, Small Law Firms
Holiday Gifts for Your Secretary / Administrative Staff: Open Thread
Over the weekend, I had dinner with a friend of mine who used to work as a paralegal at a small law firm. She told me about how one year, for the holidays, all the lawyers chipped in to get her a gift certificate to a spa, so she could get herself a massage. I […] -
Admin, Announcements, Contests, Reader Polls
ATL's 2011 Lawyer of the Year: Nominations Needed
With just two weeks left in the year 2011, we thought that now would be a good time to ask you, our loyal readers, to submit your nominations for Above the Law’s fifth annual LAWYER OF THE YEAR competition. We’ll be running the show just like we’ve done it in the past: you submit your […]
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English Grammar and Usage, Reader Polls
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Pleaded v. Pled
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. On Friday, thanks to popular demand from our readers, we turned to a contested issue among lawyers. What is the preferred past tense form for the verb plead -- pleaded or pled? -
Contests, Lawyer of the Day, Partner Issues, Reader Polls
November Lawyer of the Month: Cheaters Never Win (Until Now)
In our November edition of the Lawyer of the Month competition, we brought you three male candidates who just didn’t give a damn. We offered our readers an anti-military law professor, but he wasn’t able to rock the vote. Next up, we had a family law judge who beat his daughter on camera, but even […] -
Disability Law, Drugs, Education / Schools, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Reader Polls
ATL Wellness Survey: Haven't We All Had a Little Adderall?
Adderall, as we understand it, is the same as Ritalin, but better. It's easy to get your hands on -- all you have to do is fake the ADHD exam and you have your very own prescription for an amphetamine for law school and beyond. Or you can bum one off of a friend as finals stress approaches. Haven't you done that? Come on, be honest.... -
Biglaw, Fabulosity, Lawyerly Lairs, Litigatrix, Money, Partner Issues, Reader Polls, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: Cravath Cribs (Part 2)(Partner parts with Park Avenue property.)
Let's take a look at the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side, where a Cravath partner recently sold his ultra-luxurious residence -- for a whopping $4.6 million. Interestingly enough, the buyer is a lawyer as well, in-house counsel at a major media company. Who are the parties to this transaction? And what does a $4.6 million apartment look like? -
English Grammar and Usage, Reader Polls
Grammer Pole of the Weak: And I Was Like, 'OMG!'
In Grammer Pole of the Weak — yes, “Grammer” is still intentionally misspelled, as are “Pole” and “Weak” — we consider questions of legal writing and English grammar and usage. Last week, for example, we looked at a legal issue, and found out that 81% of our readers voted to support the use of “act […] -
Email Scandals, Law Professors, Lawyer of the Day, Reader Polls, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Lawyer of the Month: November Reader Poll
November is typically a month where people give thanks for all of the good things in their lives. The vast majority of the scandalous lawyers featured in these pages seem to have forgotten about that small fact. They just don’t give a damn. Family ties? Meh. The troops? Screw ’em. Honorific ATL titles? Totally lame. […] -
7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Law Professors, Reader Polls, Richard Posner, Rudeness, Screw-Ups
Was Judge Posner a Dodo in His Ostrich Opinion?
Of course not! But the headline got your attention, didn’t it? The notion of Judge Richard Posner as being anything other than a genius will certainly make people sit up and take notice. There’s a reason why there’s a Facebook group called Richard Posner for Philosopher King (of which I am a proud member). It […]