Ropes & Gray
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Assures Associates They'll Get Market Compensation
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.06.18
* Waymo and Uber head to court in self-driving car battle. Uber’s characterizing Waymo’s allegations of industrial espionage as a conspiracy theory and hopes no one reads too much into the fact that Uber ran an industrial espionage group for years. [NPR]
* On February 2, Ropes & Gray was engaged by USA Gymnastics to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar. Hey gang, we all loved the movie, but Groundhog Day doesn’t mean you actually get a do-over on all the stuff you screwed up before. [American Lawyer]
* John Dowd and Jay Sekulow don’t want Mueller to interview Trump. Ty Cobb thinks transparency and cooperation are the best policy. The existence of this story suggests Dowd and Sekulow are winning the internal struggle. [Business Insider]
* The Supreme Court isn’t going to intervene to protect Pennsylvania’s gerrymandered districts… [Courthouse News Service]
* … So, Pennsylvania Republicans are looking into impeaching the state supreme court justices who ruled against them. [Daily Intelligencer]
* Is this the least qualified lawyer to helm a Gitmo case? He certainly thinks so. [NY Times]
* Speaking of Gitmo, there’s a fight brewing over the Defense Department’s recent decision to strip prisoners of their rights to own their own art. [Hyperallergic]
* When the Brits refuse to extradite to the U.S., maybe it’s time to reconsider prison conditions. [The Intercept]
* Katten Munchin opens up in Dallas. [Law360]
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Biglaw
Ropes & Gray Bonus Contains A Fun Punishment
I hope you've been putting in your time, on-time, every time.
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Bankruptcy
Peter Thiel's Lawyers Say They Want To Buy Gawker's Vault
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Biglaw
Ropes & Gray Elects First Female Chair
Another woman joins the upper echelon of Biglaw leadership. -
Biglaw, Law Schools
Combat Veteran Doesn't Mind Biglaw's Long Nights Because His Life Isn't In Danger
Having experience as a veteran makes life in Biglaw seem easy. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Which Firm Is Offering Up To $50K For Associates To Stay Put?
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Bar Exams, Biglaw
Biglaw Associate Fails Bar Exam, Gets Fired, Sues Bar Examiners For Causing Job Loss
If the bar examiners hadn't denied her testing accommodations, perhaps she'd still have a job. -
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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Biglaw, Deaths
Biglaw Attorney Drowns In Dangerous Riptide
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Biglaw
The 2017 A-List Arrives To Salve That Itch You Had For Another Law Firm Ranking This Week
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Biglaw, Rankings, Women's Issues
Best Biglaw Firms For Women Who Actually Want To Make Partner
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Biglaw
Ropes Raids Continue
A month of partner defections at Ropes & Gray continues with two more Boston laterals. -
Biglaw, Intellectual Property
Ropes & Gray Splitting With Around 100 Lawyers And Staffers
Is this the beginning of downsizing for Biglaw IP? -
Rankings, Sponsored Content
Life Sciences Law Firm Index: Top Deal Firms Update
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Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: A Biglaw Firm That May Sweeten The Bonus Pot
Congratulations to you if you’re an associate who managed to squeeze some more money out of the firm. -
Biglaw, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Biglaw Partner's $12 Million Home -- With Amazing Central Park Views
This is quite the trophy property. -
Litigation Finance, Sponsored Content
Rt. 128 Elite: The Go-To Law Firms of Boston
In our series of White Sandal round-ups, Lake Whillans presents this handy primer on The Go-To Law Firms of Boston.