A couple of days ago, an attorney sent in an email to the New York State Bar Association listserv. Like many people, the attorney was looking for a job. He decided to ask the listserv for some helpful tips: Subject: [nysba-nonres] (somewhat) new attorney still seeking first FT position From: [Redacted] To: [email protected] Its a […]
* Yesterday’s O’Melveny news is still rippling through the blogosphere. Will the firm now be known as the Martin Luther of Biglaw? [Law and More] * Remember, if you are in Washington, D.C. next Wednesday September 23rd, head down to Georgetown to meet David Lat and talk about new media and the law. [Georgetown Federalist […]
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
It’s the afternoon of Thursday, September 17. Do you know where your clerkship is? Today is the first day, pursuant to the Law Clerk Hiring Plan for 2009 — which some judges follow, and some don’t — when interviews may be held and offers made. The plan even specifies a time of day for interviews […]
Oh happy day! It brings us news of a beloved figure who has been long absent from these pages: Monica Goodling, our favorite DOJ diva. And the news for Goodling, a high-ranking and influential official in the Bush Administration’s Justice Department, is good. Remember the case of Gerlich v. U.S. Department of Justice, the putative […]
Over the last month, we’ve seen a significant spike in the number of ATL readers making use of the information on the Career Center. With hundreds of thousands of visitors to the law firm snapshots and tens of thousands of law firm comparisons generated on the Career Center, we want to know what is on […]
Federal judges have been complaining about their salaries for years now, but all they’ve managed to get recently is a small cost of living increase. Federal judge Stephen Larson of the Central District of California is taking a stand on the issue — by quitting. From the National Law Journal: U.S. District Judge Stephen G. […]
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Like most days, I started my morning with a Red Bull and the best morning man in the business, Pat Kiernan. Everything was proceeding normally, until I received this tip in the ATL inbox: Women lawyers at City firm Clifford Chance have been given a £90 lingerie allowance. Now, as you can well imagine, I […]
The current New Yorker has an interesting piece by Jeffrey Toobin on President Obama’s judicial picks. Toobin took part in a live chat about the piece at NewYorker.com right now earlier today if you’re interested. (Try not to crash their website.). UPDATE: The chat’s quite interesting. Toobin reveals why he likes Justice Souter best and […]
Yesterday, we talked about a Boston College Law professor, Scott Fitzgibbon, who went up to Maine to shoot an anti-gay-marriage commercial. John Garvey, Dean of Boston College Law, didn’t respond to us, but he did send around an email to the BC Law community. As many predicted, Dean Garvey defended Professor Fitzgibbon. Here is the […]
* Happy Constitution Day. [Concurring Opinions] * Georgia judge Clay Land reprimanded an attorney and threw out an Army captain’s “birther movement” lawsuit, which opposed Iraq deployment based on Barack Obama’s supposed illegitimacy to be president. [Ledger-Enquirer] * What else could Congress do to Joe Wilson? [Slate] * Pace Law is offering an accelerated degree […]
Most law firms, big and small, that have adopted AI are making the same mistake: they bought a tool for their lawyers and called it a strategy.
Just last week SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor was spotted cutting a rug at the Irish Channel Pub in Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown. This week, she’s on the dance floor again, but this time the location is a bit more upscale. From the Reliable Source at the Washington Post: The annual gala of the National Hispanic Foundation […]
There has been so much talk about the death of Biglaw that the term has become a cliché. These are challenging times, to be sure. But many firms are in the process of adjusting to the market, by making long-term plans to revise their business models so they can thrive in the future. One such […]
* Another signal that Justice Stevens might be on his way out. [The BLT: Blog of the Legal Times] * Are Alabaman men threatened by sex toys? [Quiz Law] * Oh, health care reform is unconstitutional now. [WSJ Law Blog] * Can you get a better grade by stalking your professor? [True/Slant] * Ms. McMahon […]
Ed. note: Welcome to the latest installment of “Notes from the Breadline,” a column by a laid-off lawyer in New York. Prior columns are collected here. You can reach Roxana St. Thomas by email (at [email protected]), follow her on Twitter, or find her on Facebook. The news that filters down to the breadline these days […]
Law firm mass emails can be a bitter pill to swallow. Nobody wants to be publicly accused of, say, taking craps on the bathroom floor. In that instance, a simple multiple-choice survey on bathroom habits followed by a marksmanship competition would have sufficed. One legal administrator recently learned the hard way that sending inflammatory mass […]