Work/life balance
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Biglaw
The Best Bonus Of All? This Biglaw Firm Will Pay Associates To Take A Vacation
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Small Law Firms
Do New Lawyers Need To Be Scared Into Being Perfect And Devoted To Their Job?
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Biglaw
In A Bid To Nab Top Talent, Biglaw Firm Introduces Work-From-Home Program
Enjoy working in your pajamas!
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.19.18
* “You were very busy. Wow. Wow. I always knew I liked him.” President Trump posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom to the Justice Antonin Scalia on Friday and managed to crack a joke about the late justice’s sex life when referring to his wife and their nine children. Wow. [USA Today]
* Speaking about birth control… President Trump has proposed a new way for employers to get around the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate by creating a Title X loophole that would “hijack” programs that already have limited funding and send women to low-income family planning clinics to get their contraceptives. [New York Times]
* Will Biglaw be the next thing that millennials kill? Not only has Weil Gotshal shortened its partner track in order to keep its youthful talent from walking out the door, but the firm that once made a big joke out of work/life balance is now allowing associates to work from home once a week. [American Lawyer]
* The California bar exam results are out, and they’re not anything to write home about — except if you enjoy schadenfreude, that is. Nearly six in 10 failed the test, and the overall pass rate is historically horrible. More on this later. [The Recorder]
* After having already been rejected by the ABA’s House of Delegates, the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has sent its proposed 75 percent bar-passage rate within two years of graduation accreditation standard right back for another vote. Will it be approved this time around? We shall see. [ABA Journal]
* Joel Sanders, the ex-CFO of failed firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, was jailed on Thursday for failing to pay a $1 million fine associated with his fraud conviction, but he was out by the wee hours of the morning on Friday thanks to his new firm, Greenspoon Marder, which paid the entire sum on his behalf. [American Lawyer]
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In-House Counsel
Surviving The Day While Doing No Work
What do you do at a corporation on a day when you're doing nothing? -
Biglaw
Burnout, Flame Out, Or Timeout?
Burnout can affect anybody, and our industry isn’t doing enough to fix that. -
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Biglaw
The Best Biglaw Firms If You Want To Be Happy At Your Job
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Biglaw
Biglaw Is Turning Associates Into George Costanzas
Biglaw fetishizes overwork, and it’s destroying us. -
In-House Counsel
Transitioning From Biglaw To In-House For Dummies
Unlike in Biglaw, not everything is a emergency when you're working in-house. -
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Biglaw
Yes, Even Biglaw Partners Stare Into The Abyss Sometimes
Who ever said work/life balance was going to be easy?
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Partner Issues
High-Powered Partner Reveals What It's Like To Balance Her Job And Motherhood
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Biglaw, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Firm Impresses Associates (And Staff) With Enhanced Parental Leave Policy
Wow! Which firm just rolled out a fully paid, gender-neutral policy, with additional time off? -
Job Searches, Jobs
7 Things You Need To Know As A First-Year Attorney
Remember that time you thought law school prepared you to practice law? About that... -
Biglaw, Pregnancy / Paternity
Biglaw Firm Updates Parental Leave Policy To Address Unique Challenges New Parents Face
This firm wants its associates to succeed as lawyers *and* as parents. -
Biglaw, Pregnancy / Paternity
Leader In Biglaw Parental Leave Further Expands Its Already Unprecedented Benefits
This firm is making it possible for attorneys to practice law while balancing their family lives. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.05.17
* Commuting to work counts as “work,” according to the European Court of Justice. I think five-year-olds everywhere would agree. [Independent]
* Harvard College rescinded the offers of 10 prospective students for trading sexually explicit memes and messages targeting minorities. When reached for comment, the Alt-Right First Amendment brigade decried the school’s lack of “intellectual diversity” probably, before masturbating to Birth of a Nation. [Harvard Crimson]
* Adam Feldman Empirical SCOTUS breaks down how the Court can avoid the stupid Travel Ban. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Bill Cosby walked into his trial with Keshia Knight Pulliam. Pulliam played “Rudy” on the popular television show “The Cosby Show,” which has now been ruined forever. [The Root]
* Everybody is enjoying the Real Press Sec Twitter bot. [The Hill]
* Flint is one of those places where white people are winning the race war. [New York Daily News]
* Trump’s support didn’t predominately come for the white working class. It came from the white stupid class. [Washington Post]
* Since the Nazis have won anyway, sure, I’m ready for some football. I guess. Who cares. I envy the dead. [Deadspin]