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Are You Ready To Go Back To The Office Next Week? Weil Gotshal Will Be At 100 Percent Capacity In Most Offices By June 1
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Biglaw
No More Lunch With The Cool Kids: Biglaw Firm Bans Client From Its Cafeteria
Amid legal dispute, firm takes away longtime client's lunch privileges.
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Biglaw
Special Bonuses On Top Of Regular Bonuses Are The New Norm At This Firm
This firm continues to set the bar high. -
Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
This Firm Will Offer Special Bonuses On Top Of Regular Bonuses
This firm is really setting the bar. -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Reader Polls, Staff Layoffs
Are The Weil Layoffs The Start Of A Biglaw Trend?
Will Weil Gotshal's Biglaw peers follow its lead in laying off attorneys? Take our reader poll. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Books, Crime, Department of Justice, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Federal Judges, Job Searches, Law Schools, Litigatrix, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Law, Trials, Women's Issues
Morning Docket: 05.08.13
* “Is there a public interest in unwanted pregnancies … that can often result in abortions?” The judge who ordered that Plan B be made available to all women regardless of age is pissed at the DOJ. [The Caucus / New York Times]
* Mary Jo White, the littlest litigatrix, will “review” the Securities and Exchange Commission’s policy of allowing financial firms to settle civil suits without affirming or denying culpability, but for now, she’s defending it. [Reuters]
* Dewey know what this failed firm is supposed to pay its advisers for work done during the first nine months of its bankruptcy proceedings? We certainly do, and it’s quite the pretty penny. [Am Law Daily]
* In a round of musical chairs that started at Weil Gotshal, Cadwalader just lost the co-chairs of its bankruptcy practice and another bankruptcy partner to O’Melveny. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Another day, another law school comparison website. Take a look at Law Jobs: By the Numbers, which includes a formula from the laughable National Jurist rankings system. [National Law Journal]
* In a move that shocked absolutely no one, attorneys for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes announced they will enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for their client. [CNN]
* From the “hindsight is 20/20″ file: the judge who presided over the Casey Anthony trial thinks there was enough evidence to convict the ex-MILF. He also likened Jose Baez to a used car salesman. [AP]
* Check out Logan Beirne’s book (affiliate link). Even when sensationalizing George Washington’s rise from general to president, attention must be paid to the rule of law. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
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Associate Bonus Watch 2012, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Tax Law
Associate Bonus Watch: Weil You Wait
Weil Gotshal announced its bonuses today. They aren't a 100 percent Cravath match. When are they being paid? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Associate Bonus Watch 2012, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Tax Law
Weil Won't Pay Bonuses Until January: Associates See Sinister Tax Motives
Did Weil just kick its associates over the fiscal cliff? -
Airplanes / Aviation, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Harvey Miller, Legal Fee Voyeurism, Money, Partner Issues
Legal Fee Voyeurism: American Airlines's Big-Time Bankruptcy Bills
How much are American Airlines's advisors seeking to be paid for their work in the mega-bankruptcy case? Enough to buy a Gulfstream jet, or two.... -
Biglaw, Minority Issues, Texas
Everything's Bigger in Texas -- Including the Lack of Diversity in Biglaw
Which Biglaw firms in Texas aren't doing so well when it comes to diversity? -
Biglaw, Contests, Fabulosity, Parties, Reader Polls, Summer Associates
ATL Summer Associate Event Contest: The Winner!
Which firm put on the best summer associate event of 2012? It's time to crown our winner. -
Biglaw, Contests, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Fabulosity, Parties, Reader Polls, Summer Associates
ATL Summer Associate Event Contest: The Finalists
Which firm had the best summer associate event of 2012? It's time to vote on the five finalists.
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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2012): A Round-Up
Which firms are making job offers to 100 percent of their summer associates? A whole lot of them.... -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2012): Open Thread
Summer associate programs are winding down, and offer rate news is trickling in. What are we hearing? -
Arnold & Porter, Biglaw, Feminism, Fenwick & West, Gay, Gender, Minority Issues, Munger Tolles & Olson, Racism, Rankings, Vault rankings, Women's Issues
The Best Law Firms for Diversity (2013)
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Defamation, Election 2012, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Politics, Trials
Morning Docket: 03.07.12
* All your base are belong to… Rick Santorum? Error! Malfunction! Super Tuesday was not quite as super as Mitt Romney was hoping for. Looks like it’s time to reprogram the Mitt-bot so he can conquer the true conservatives. [CNN]
* And the Cebulls**t just keeps on coming. Now Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are calling for a hearing and an investigation on the consequences of the federal judge’s racist email. [Associated Press]
* After wrapping up a Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Lehman Brothers, Weil Gotshal’s bill came to $383M. And sadly, that’s probably going to be the only “spring bonus” associates will see this year. [Am Law Daily]
* Complete pwnage: a handful of LulzSec hacktivists were arrested after their leader, an FBI informant, turned on them. How will this affect the Anonymous movement? More importantly, who cares? [New York Times]
* No postponements for you, Casey Anthony. Try as she might, the acquitted ex-MILF just can’t escape the defamation lawsuit filed by a woman who was only supposed to be make believe. [Washington Post]
* Don’t like Maryland Law’s environmental clinic litigation? Offer another public law school $500K to represent the defendants. Because if anyone would take a bribe, it would be Baltimore Law. [National Law Journal]
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Associate Bonus Watch 2011, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Updates and Addenda
In the world of Biglaw, the subject of bonuses is a hot-button issue. People will disagree, often vehemently, on whether the bonuses paid by a particular firm are generous or cheap. Some of our recent bonus posts have generated salient updates and dissenting opinions. After the jump, we bring you postscripts regarding bonuses at several major law firms, including Cravath, Kaye Scholer, Quinn Emanuel, Sidley Austin, and Weil Gotshal.... -
Associate Bonus Watch 2011, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money
Associate Bonus Watch: Weil Matches Cravath (And There's Nothing 'Distinguished' About It)
After yesterday’s excitement over the Boies Schiller bonuses, we’re back to the Cravath scale. Today Weil Gotshal came out with its year-end bonuses. The firm is matching Cravath. Our sources report the Weil scale starts at $7,500 for full first-year associates — no stub-year bonus for the class of 2011, like at Milbank — and […]