Rescission Watch: Which Biglaw Firm Is Pulling Offers?
Which firm is making its would-be associates scramble for new jobs? Could it be yours?
A Blind Item Revealed: A Judge Whose Clerks Must Cut His Grapefruit
Should a high-powered clerkship require clerks to cook?
Legal Is Changing. And NeoSummit Is Where The Future Is Being Built.
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
Predictions — Based On Empirical Evidence — For 2014
What does former Biglaw partner and current in-house columnist Mark Herrmann predict for 2014?
A Tale Of Two Edits
How can an editor enjoy revising one document and loathe revising another based solely on the anticipated responses to the edits?
Biglaw Blind Item: This Firm’s Summer Associates Are ‘Idiots’
This Biglaw attorney hates summer associates -- and is happy to announce it in a public place.
Biglaw Blind Item: Partner Payment Problems?
Which law firm is the next Dewey & LeBoeuf? Well, how about a law firm where partner draws are delayed?
Protégé™ In CourtLink® Explains The Whole Case Faster
Designed to reduce manual docket work by prioritizing what litigators need most: on-demand full docket summarization that explains the whole case to date, followed by on-demand document summaries for filing triage, and AI-powered natural language searching for faster search and retrieval.
The Games Biglaw Firms Play When It Comes To Filling Out Surveys
Biglaw firms know how to game self-reported surveys...
A Summer Associate Story Update: In Defense of the Fitzpatrick Cella Fella
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....
Boutique Blind Item Revealed: More On The Infamous Firearms Incident — And An Allegedly Naughty Summer Associate….
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.
IP Boutique Blind Item: When The Managing Partner’s Boyfriend Allegedly Pulls A Gun On You
It's so awkward when you touch the managing partner and her boyfriend pulls a gun on you, isn't it?
LexisNexis Practical Guidance Rolls Out Dedicated Practice Area for AI & Technology
The new generation of AI-related legal issues are inherently cross-disciplinary, implicating corporate law, intellectual property, data privacy, employment, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Biglaw Blind Item: The $6 Million Men
(Plus additional tidbits about Dewey partner compensation.)
Who are the two Dewey & LeBoeuf partners who earned more than $6 million in the year leading up to the firm's bankruptcy filing?
Biglaw Blind Item: How Dewey Feel When Other Firms Make Jokes?
Now other firms are making jokes at Dewey's expense. Is Dewey's possible demise a laughing matter?
Biglaw Blind Item: Paradise Lost
For a Biglaw partner, is there anything more humiliating than being stripped of a corner office?
Quote of the Day: In Defense of Dissentals
What does Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit think of dissents from the denial of rehearing en banc (aka dissentals)?
Biglaw Blind Item: Making (It With A) Partner
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....