Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks, which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. We’re coming down to the wire on the Law Shucks Lateral Tracker launch promotion iPhone 3GS giveaway. Read the announcement and the rules, then get […]
Here’s one talk that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t fall asleep during: her own, a conversation with Nina Totenberg at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday night. We took note of the fact that RBG dozed off a bit during President Obama’s State of the Union address. As it turns out, Justice Ginsburg has an […]
Legal teams ask a practical question. If large language models are so capable, why does legal AI still depend on curated content, and why does surfacing that content matter so much?
Occasionally we report about firms offering voluntary early retirement / buyout packages to their staff. For the most part, the programs haven’t been popular. It seems like staffers would just as soon take their chances at layoff roulette instead of voluntarily falling on their swords and slinking away into the night. So a tipster’s report […]
* Robert Joffe (pictured), former presiding partner of Cravath, RIP. [WSJ Law Blog] * You have to wonder if Justice Alito and the rest of the majority from Citizens United will get back at President Obama. If they want revenge, listening to Orly Taitz would be a good start. [The BLT: Blog of the Legal […]
The Center for Women in Government & Civil Society recently released a study [PDF] about female judges. Their main finding: there are not very many of them. (Duh.) Looking at judgeships on both the federal and state level, women account for just 26% of all seats (5,015 seats), while men occupy 74%, or 14,335 seats. […]
Ed. note: ATL has teamed up with the 10th Justice to predict how the Supreme Court may decide upcoming cases. CNN has called FantasySCOTUS the “hottest new fantasy-league game.” How many SCOTUS watchers does it take to accurately predict the outcome of a case? How large of a crowd do we need before the crowd […]
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
Are you one of the 21 percent of law school students who, due to the changing legal job market, regret going to law school? If going to law school was a stupid decision decision for you, then congratulations — Vinny Guadagnino, the “self-confessed mama’s boy” of Jersey Shore fame, is smarter than you are. We […]
There is an excellent new product on the market. A tipster reports: A machine that turns your JD into something useful. Or, what to do with all those resumes “on file”. Or, the next cost cutting measure. So many possibilities… Remember when K&L Gates decided to go with cheap toilet paper in their office bathrooms? […]
We’ve got a tale of two states when it comes to the Vinson & Elkins bonus. The firm made true-up raises, putting their associates back at the top of the market for associate salaries. But the firm didn’t give out make-whole bonuses. For many associates, the money lost from a year of salary stasis is […]
The Roberts court has lost its virginity. — Linda Greenhouse
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This week brought good news from WilmerHale. The firm’s profits per partner climbed by approximately 7 percent last year, from $1.08 million in 2008 to $1.16 million in 2009, according to the National Law Journal. The increase in PPP was driven, in part, by a dip in partner headcount (from about 330 in 2008 to […]
In November, we told you about Damian Bonazzoli, who was — at that time — a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He decided to make some money on the side by responding to a Craigslist ad seeking someone to write a term paper. The Boston College law grad sent along his résumé […]
We have a Nixon Peabody situation, deep in the heart of Texas. Winstead has decided to rescind offers to two of their incoming associates who were set to start on Monday. It just goes to show, you don’t have a job until you are actually sitting at a desk, performing work. Paycheck or it didn’t […]
* The Department of Justice is looking for places outside New York City to hold the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed terror circus/trial. Mayor Michael Bloomberg allowed facts to change his mind; that’s how we roll in the 2-1-2. [Newark Star Ledger] * Kelley Drye allegedly hates old people. [New York Law Journal] * Dear Toyota, you […]
Yesterday marked the end, at least for now, of the trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the high-profile case challenging Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage in California. The trial unfolded over the past two and a half weeks in the San Francisco courtroom of Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (N.D. Cal.), who is hearing the case […]