WilmerHale
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Top Biglaw Firm Announces Big-Time Raises, Bonuses For Associates
After all this time, this top firm is only the second one to offer supersized bonuses to its super-senior attorneys. Great news! -
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Eric Adams Crowdfunds Legal Defense As If Raising Money Isn't Exactly How He Got Here
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Biglaw Firm Facing Racial Discrimination Lawsuit From Former Senior Associate
WilmerHale hasn't commented on the allegations.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.22.23
* Allen & Overy finally finds its American match, announcing a deal with Shearman & Sterling. The new firm will be called “A&O Shearman”… for a couple of months before we just call it “Allen & Overy.” [Law360]
* Biden seems unwilling to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to avoid a government shutdown, though it’s not clear why since there wouldn’t be any injured plaintiff. [Reuters]
* Not that having a viable legal theory matters much to this Supreme Court. So why does the media bend over backward to frame opinions through a legal lens? In fairness, Above the Law more or less stopped trying to do that years ago. [Slate]
* A former Lewis Brisbois COO alleged financial shenanigans back in 2019. Not saying these rumors contributed to over 100 lawyers bailed, but they can’t have helped. [American Lawyer]
* Meta, the artist formerly known as Facebook and likely subsequently to be known as Facebook, receives 1.3 billion Euro fine for GDPR data privacy violations. [The Verge]
* Ty Cobb thinks Trump will end up in jail over classified documents. So don’t expect Cobb to be rejoining the legal team. [Newsweek]
* January 6 probe triggers secretive hearing involving WilmerHale — likely over social media data. [Politico]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.23
* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for “personal attack” because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, “I don’t think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate]
* After watching Disney’s experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP]
* Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that “free speech” is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal]
* Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein’s victims. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power “to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of ‘political justice’ that Congress intended to prohibit.” Too bad she wasn’t a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court… she’d be home free by now.[Law360]
* WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they’ve since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Attorney Leaves Firm Over Vaccine Requirement, Wants Everyone To Know He's A Big Bozo
Just... get vaccinated people. It's not that difficult. -
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Top 30 Biglaw Firm Changes Billable Hours Policy To Include Bonus Credit For Up To 50 Hours Of Diversity Work
This firm truly cares about the diversity of its workforce. -
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Biglaw Heavyweight Makes Its Mark On New Associate Compensation
Woohoo! The firm announced a new salary scale much quicker than it did last time. -
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Announces Bonuses Up To $30,000 Over Market Rates -- If The Billable Hours Are Right
Busy associates are generously rewarded here! -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Learn The Hard Way: If You Don't Want Controversy Don't Pay For A Brett Kavanaugh Event
Kirkland, Sullivan & Cromwell, Gibson Dunn among others called out in new ad campaign. -
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When Cravath Is A Footnote In Your Biography
This former Cravath attorney went on to bigger and better things. -
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Doc Review Attorney Demands To Be Seen In Biglaw Departure Email
After 10 years, does anyone know who this even is? -
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At Long Last Biglaw Giant Makes Its Compensation Move
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.10.18
* Now that the FBI is all up in his business, Squire Patton Boggs has cut ties with Michael Cohen. They had been working together in an amorphous strategic alliance that was almost certainly some kind of murky lobbying-related arrangement. [American Lawyer]
* Today is Equal Pay Day and in-house counsel hold the key to remedying pay inequality. [Corporate Counsel]
* This lawyer’s got 99 problems and all of them are a year in prison for trading sex for legal work. [Texas Lawyer]
* Trump advised that he can’t contribute to legal defense fund. This story assumes the phony billionaire has enough non-debt-financed disposable income to help his cronies, which is a very open question. [Bloomberg]
* In shocker, the Texas Supreme Court doesn’t understand homosexuality. [Slate]
* Wilmer and Foley Hoag seek documents to prove the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation drove the administration’s decision to ban transgender troops — since we know the general serving as Secretary of Defense wasn’t pushing it. [National Law Journal]
* Gawker’s liability releases hit snag. [Law360]
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