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Boutique Law Firms, Legal Research, Money, Small Law Firms
From Biglaw to Boutique: A Moment of Truth
The changing market invites, if not demands, lawyers to offer concessions for clients. Happily, many of the concessions have relatively little impact on the firm’s bottom line, but can garner significant goodwill with clients. For example.... -
Drinking, Email Scandals, Letter from London, Sex, Sex Scandals, Travel / Vacation, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Letter from London: Shearman Lawyer in 'Spit-Roast' Email Shame
It was just another day at Shearman & Sterling. Daniel England, a British trainee lawyer based at the firm's Singapore office, took a break from whatever thrilling piece of work he was doing to email his friends about their forthcoming vacation in Dubai. Being a rules-obsessed lawyer, he included a list of "do’s and don’ts" for the group -- two of whom work in London's financial district, the City -- to follow on the trip. A few days later, the poor fellow found the email plastered across the British press.... - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Airplanes / Aviation, Clarence Thomas, Eyes of the Law, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Fashion Victims Unit, Federal Judges, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Travel / Vacation
The Eyes of the Law: Justices Who Are Slumming It
Justices of the Supreme Court are sort of royalty -- or maybe even deities, gods, and goddesses who walk among us. Alas, it seems that two members of SCOTUS didn't get the memo. They are comporting themselves in public in ways that are inconsistent with the dignity of the Article III judiciary....
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Airplanes / Aviation, Constitutional Law, Federal Judges, Privacy, Travel / Vacation
Two Minutes of Terrorist Triumph: Alone With the TSA
Elie Mystal's objections to the TSA and the invasive search techniques they employ have been well documented on Above the Law. He believes their tactics are violative of our rights and would be deemed unconstitutional in any America where courts placed justice ahead of fear. He believes citizens who support these procedures do not deserve the liberty they so eagerly toss aside. And he believed all of that before he was actually molested by the TSA just last week.... -
Airplanes / Aviation, Lawsuit of the Day, Privacy, Travel / Vacation
Lawsuit of the Day: Asking For Proof Of Panties Is One Way To Put Them in a Bunch
Did JetBlue go too far in its passenger screening procedures? One New York woman alleges that a JetBlue employee demanded not just proof of identification, but proof of... panties. -
Privacy, Travel / Vacation
Honestly TSA, WTF Is Wrong With You?
We live in strange times. Unreasonable times. Times when the federal government has stopped rationally protecting people and started irrationally molesting people. What has the TSA done now?
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