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....
Keeping Law School Accessible When Federal Loans Fall Short
As federal borrowing caps tighten financing options for law students, one organization is stepping in to negotiate the terms they can't secure alone.
A Biglaw Bathroom Blind Item
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….
Biglaw Blind Item: A Partner Walks Into a Strip Club….
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....
Law School Blind Item: Hot for Teacher
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....
Morning Docket: 10.19.11
* 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. […]
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.
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Split Infinitives
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?
Biglaw Blind Item: An Ice-Cold Offer
Now that Labor Day is behind us, fall is fast approaching. You can tell by the chill in the evening air. Or is that just the cold offers we're feeling? We recently heard a story about a pretty cold offer. This summer associate, who wasn't the most popular person in her class, received a full-time employment offer "contingent upon obtaining a federal clerkship." Given how hard it is to land a federal judicial clerkship, that's a pretty cold offer. But wait, it gets better....
Top-Tier Law School Blind Item: An Associate Position, At No Cost to You!
Could the legal economy be returning to normal? Could the dark days of indentured servitude for recent law school graduates be coming to an end? Not so fast....
Biglaw Blind Item: In Biglaw You Deal With Big Money
Do you know why people go to law school? For most people, it’s not because they “love the law” or because they want to be part of the system of justice. It’s because they want to make money. Lots and lots of dirty, sexy money. Granted, there are easier ways to make money in this […]
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Biglaw Blind Item: What Does It Look Like When A Partner Gets Fired?
We’ve already shown you what it looks like when an associate gets laid off from a law firm. It’s not pretty. What does it look like when a law firm fires — or tries to fire — a partner? Well, that is even uglier….
Biglaw Blind Item: Client No. 10?
A prominent partner left his white-shoe law firm some time ago, purportedly for falsifying expenses. A juicy detail that is less widely known: some of the fake expenses were for what might be described as improper forms of entertainment. (This blind item — relating to someone who left his firm prior to 2010 — has […]
Biglaw Blind Item: Who Has Herpes?
Actually, we’re not sure that it’s herpes; that’s just a guess, based on context clues. But apparently some prominent, white-shoe law firm has been hit by an outbreak of a sexually-transmitted disease. Check out this Biglaw blind item….
Is Anyone Desperate Enough to Do This?
No matter when it’s done, job hunting usually sucks balls. When done in the middle of the Great Recession, it feels like the balls are covered in tangled hair and pointy skin-piercing spikes. It’s painful and you have to be careful. One disgruntled attorney recently emailed us about a company that he suspects is trying […]
Quote of the Day: Partner Pothead
I have been a lifelong cannabis user, on an almost daily basis since I was in high school. I am now the managing partner of a very successful law firm in the Washington, D.C. area. I have been in a professional law practice for almost 27 years. I work 60+ hours a week, and all […]