Blind Item

Which firm is making its would-be associates scramble for new jobs? Could it be yours?

Should a high-powered clerkship require clerks to cook?

What does former Biglaw partner and current in-house columnist Mark Herrmann predict for 2014?

How can an editor enjoy revising one document and loathe revising another based solely on the anticipated responses to the edits?

This Biglaw attorney hates summer associates -- and is happy to announce it in a public place.

Which law firm is the next Dewey & LeBoeuf? Well, how about a law firm where partner draws are delayed?

Biglaw firms know how to game self-reported surveys...

Here is yet another account of what went down at the infamous Fitzpatrick Cella wine tasting event, involving a gun, a managing partner's boyfriend, and way too much to drink....

Guns + Alcohol + Summer Associates = Trouble. More about the firearms incident at a leading IP boutique, including the name of the firm -- and the alleged antics of the summer associate.

It's so awkward when you touch the managing partner and her boyfriend pulls a gun on you, isn't it?

Who are the two Dewey & LeBoeuf partners who earned more than $6 million in the year leading up to the firm's bankruptcy filing?

Now other firms are making jokes at Dewey's expense. Is Dewey's possible demise a laughing matter?

For a Biglaw partner, is there anything more humiliating than being stripped of a corner office?

What does Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit think of dissents from the denial of rehearing en banc (aka dissentals)?

We begin this Biglaw blind item with a fairly familiar setup: a partner sleeping with an associate. Shocking, right? Well, let's add a few elements to the mix....

We know how you love blind items. And we know how you enjoy potty humor. So let’s mash up these two categories, to generate a Biglaw bathroom blind item….

Our latest Biglaw blind item concerns the sighting of a partner at a strip club. Right now you're probably thinking: yawn. A law firm partner at a strip club? As they say, it happens every day (or night -- and often gets billed to "business development"). But there are a few more details that make this item noteworthy....

Romances between law professors and law students: they happen. Law students are adults, after all, and they should be allowed to make their own decisions in matters of the heart. Our latest blind item has to do with the extracurricular activities of a prominent law professor....

* The AT&T/T-Mobile antitrust suit is so big that not even Big Government law can handle it. The DOJ is bringing in even bigger guns with a partner from Biglaw firm Munger Tolles. [Bloomberg] * Obama has nominated former Kozinski clerk, Paul Watford, to the Ninth Circuit. Way to go, because he’s kind of cute. […]

In an event Lat did a few years ago at the University of Chicago with Judge Richard Posner, Judge Posner tossed out a delicious little blind item. He mentioned a federal judge in Chicago who would fire law clerks for what she viewed as a very grave offense: splitting infinitives in written work product. But is splitting infinitives really such a crime?