Summer Associates
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No ‘Fear Factor’: Biglaw Summer Associates ‘Excited’ About Using AI
Generative AI comes to Biglaw summer associates, but how do they like it?
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Biglaw Firm Offers Racy, Expensive Summer Event Before No-Offering Summers Anyway
In our latest chat, we discuss Biglaw strip club outings, Jeff Clark taking time away from his indictment to be an idiot online, and associates unhappy with a law firm’s office tracker.
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Top 8 Reasons That Solos Should Hire A Law Student This Summer
You owe it to yourself to hire a summer.
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* Amazon is struggling to protect law enforcement from turning the Echo into a permanent wiretap. Maybe they should ask Alexa if she can find some caselaw. [Law.com]
* Is this the next Solicitor General? [National Law Journal]
* In case you missed it, a bunch of whiny snowflakes are complaining that law schools don’t respect their opinions. [Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* If you’re wondering what life might be like in a totalitarian version of America, consider this profile of Jones Day. [American Lawyer]
* Kellogg Huber is now Kellogg Hansen for those keeping score at home. [Kellogg Hansen]
* Summer Associate hiring hit a wall last year. Not a good sign for the fragile 3-hour lunch industry going forward. [Am Law Daily]
* Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Stephen DiCarmine has gotten the government’s documents surrounding the Frank Canellas plea deal. [Law360]
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All This Techno-Ignorance Will Make Your Head Explode
Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about some über expensive and embarrassing examples of lawyers making technological mistakes. Those stories involved sexily scandalous blunders, but they were relatively extreme scenarios. (If turning over thousands of privileged documents happens regularly at your firm, may God help you.) More frequently, firm employees deal with little technological […]