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Skadden Announces New Salary Scale, Accelerated Promotion Schedule

One of the biggest names in the business will be paying even bigger bucks to its associates.

Morning Docket: 06.16.21

* The Supreme Court ruled that a low-level crack-cocaine offender was unable to receive a reduced sentence under a recently passed law. That’s whack… [CNN]

* A defendant acting as his own lawyer yelled at lawyers during opening arguments at his murder trial yesterday. [NBC News]

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Associate Raises Are Still All The Rage — See Also

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Associates Are Getting PAID: At Pillsbury, Brewer, Boies Schiller, and O’Melveny.

New York Bar Examiners Kinda Have A Point: But then veer violently off course.

Are The US Marshals In Open Rebellion Against A Judge? Because that’s sure what it looks like from here.

Outrageous Claims By Cops Make Their Way Into A New Lawsuit: Over milkshakes, remember that one?

Not All Biglaw Partnership Is Created Equal

Quantifying equity partnership.

Re-Imagining A Law School Curriculum To Kill the Bar Exam

The bar doesn’t test all that lawyers do. And it does not test what law professors teach.  

These Special Bonuses And Raises Will Cost Biglaw Firms TONS Of Money

Will all the firms that have matched be able to handle this new money suck?

Emails Show Biglaw Lawyer Was In Deep With Donald Trump Election Case When Firm Claimed To Have No Idea

A quick response to bad news is only the first step.

Shake Shack Manager Sues Cops Who Claimed Poisoned Milkshakes

Remember how much last summer sucked?

Litigation Finance And State Bars — What Should Counsel Know? (Part II)

We can expect that additional state bars will weigh in on litigation finance in due course and that the discussion of ethics in relation to funding will continue to evolve.

Federal Judge Charges Marshals With Criminal Contempt For Being… You Know, Contemptuous

Not exactly the historic agency's finest look.

The Great Law Firm Reopening Tracker: Flexibility Is The Way Of The Future

The latest updates on how law firms are adjusting to the new normal.

O’Melveny Gets In On The Associate Raise Action

Another firm matches the Biglaw salary increases.

Boies Schiller Makes An Associate Compensation Move Of Their Own

Associates can expect a nice pay day.

Texas Is 6th State To Require College Athlete NIL Rights As Of July 1

Meanwhile, Congress has taken no action on a national NIL law and continues to do nothing despite holding hearings on Capitol Hill concerning the need to provide athletes NIL rights on a nationwide basis.

3 Takeaways From The Lex Machina 2021 Copyright And Trademark Report

Our clients deserve our well-informed opinions on IP issues, opinions based on data, rather than anecdotal evidence.