Elite Firm Raises The Bar On Compensation, Offers $300K Starting Salaries For Associates
This is incredibly exciting news!
Elite Firm Increases Associate Starting Salaries To $250K
Finally, some happy news.
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Elite Firm Shrugs At Milbank Scale, Instead Offers Starting Salaries Of $235K
Extremely exciting news!
Texas Clears Bill Brewer In Alleged ‘Push Polling’ Incident
Congrats to Bill Brewer for clearing up an outstanding thorn in his side.
NRA May Be Shooting Itself In The Foot With Out-Of-Control Legal Bills
Bill Brewer's apparently charging them $97K a day.
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Morning Docket: 09.14.18
* Paul Manafort pleading guilty. Because... witch hunt or something. [CNN] * Brett Kavanaugh could "halt or reverse our progress toward gay equality." Is this all it takes to get an op-ed in a mega circulation paper these days? Just say obvious stuff? I've really been overthinking this. [USA Today] * Betsy DeVos reversing campus rape rules to make Baylor great again. [Law.com] * Bill Brewer bounced from NRA case because it was absolutely the right thing to do. [Washington Post] * A close look at three law-abiding people who are about to be converted to "illegal" humans by this administration. [Courthouse News Service] * Tish James will be New York's next Attorney General and all she had to do to win was promise not to use the powers of the Attorney General. [Law360]
Federal Judge Wants To Hear Why Bigtime Attorney Said He’d Never Been Sanctioned… When He Was TOTALLY Just Sanctioned
Hm... this sanction must have slipped his mind.
Associate Bonus Watch: $10 Starbucks Cards For Top Billers
Base compensation may be market, but bonuses at this law firm amount to a hill of (coffee) beans.
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Which Firm Pays A Starting Salary Of $200,000?
This firm has bumped up its first-year salaries not once, but twice in the past nine months.
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Lawyer Slapped With Big Sanctions For ‘Push Polling’ Potential Jurors
Scathing benchslap for a high-profile lawyer accused of attempting to taint a jury pool.
Morning Docket: 12.02.15
* Did 50 Cent's lawyers spend too much of the bankrupt rapper's money while representing him? With $123,455.92 in expenses, sex-tape plaintiff Lastonia Leviston says Fiddy's lawyers from Brewer Attorneys & Counselors were partying like it was their birthday throughout trial. [New York Daily News] * Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of Fox News, isn't laughing at ABC's news comedy called Fair and Balanced. Fox trademarked that slogan in 1997, and Ailes says ABC "wouldn't know fair and balanced if it hit them in the ass with a fish." [Adweek] * Following in Dentons' footsteps, yet another Biglaw firm has entered into a "strategic alliance" with a Chinese firm. McGuireWoods will create a referral network with FuJae Partners, but there's no talk of a merger -- yet. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA] * NJ Gov. Chris Christie says he's been researching legal action he can take against Syrian refugees who have been placed in his state. He's acknowledged it's a federal issue, but this would-be president is going to try to oust them anyway. [NJ Advance Media] * The Illinois Department of Corrections has been suing newly released inmates to recover the cost of their room and board while they were incarcerated. Lovely. This surely "raise[s] moral questions that legislators need to address." [Chicago Tribune]