Cleveland
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Politics
Big Banks Totally Forgot That They Had Other Plans During This Year’s GOP Convention
The big guys see attending Trump’s party as the true mistake by the lake. -
Biglaw
The Offer: Go Biglaw Or Go Home
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Law School Deans, Lawyerly Lairs, Real Estate
Lawyerly Lairs: A Disgraced Dean's Abandoned Abode
This mansion has lots of charm. Just be sure its former occupant doesn't feng your shui.
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Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Judicial Divas, Legal Ethics, Reader Polls, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns
Lawyers Of The Day: Additional Allegations Of Attorney (And Judicial) Misconduct
Which of these three disgraced lawyers should be our Lawyer of the Day? -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Staff Layoffs, Technology
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Careers Kidnapped in Cleveland, Negated in New York
Which firm is throwing staffers overboard to prevent itself from capsizing? -
Affirmative Action, Labor / Employment, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, State Judges, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 06.07.13
* Crafty trial tactics out of C-Town. A Cuyahoga County prosecutor was fired after he admitted to posing as a woman in a Facebook chat with an accused killer’s alibi witnesses in an attempt to persuade them to change their testimony. [Cleveland Plain Dealer] * If you post on Facebook asking your employer to fire you, you can’t get mad when they, you know, fire you. [IT-Lex] * Yeah. Where the hell is Fisher? [PrawfsBlawg] * It’s a week late, but congratulations to whatever genius is behind UChiLawGo on graduating. [UChiLawGo] * Once again, you can’t pay your bill with pennies just to get revenge. [Legal Juice] * Some tips on turning your basketcaseness into eustress, which apparently means “good stress.” [Associate's Mind] * New York eyes raising the retirement age for judges to 80. [New York Times] -
Sports, Tax Law
Cleveland Rocks... Potential IRS Fraud From The Owner Of Their Football Team
As Bill Simmons would say, God hates Cleveland... -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Federal Government, Job Searches, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Wells Fargo
Morning Docket: 10.10.12
* Dewey know whether Judge Martin Glenn approved this failed firm’s $71.5 million partner contribution plan? We certainly do, and D&L’s chief restructuring officer, Joff Mitchell of Zolfo Cooper, is simply “delighted” about it. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Bitch better have my money? The United States is suing Wells Fargo under the little known Financial Institutions Reform, Recover, and Enforcement Act for allegedly screwing it out of approximately eleventy billion dollars. [DealBook / New York Times]
* “Flat is the new up for the legal sector,” except in Cleveland, because law firms there have been on hiring sprees throughout 2012. But unfortunately, there is a down side — it’s Cleveland. [Cleveland Plain-Dealer]
* Diversity: no longer just an old wooden ship. Almost every law school-related amicus brief filed in Fisher v. University of Texas has backed the consideration of race in admissions decisions. [National Law Journal]
* There’s officially at least one benefit in attending Thomas M. Cooley Law — the school collects so much money from students that it’s able to attract big-name speakers, like ex-rocker Henry Rollins. [Michigan Live]
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Antonin Scalia, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Job Searches, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Scalia's Advice: Don't Work Too Hard, Move to Cleveland
On Monday, as the world was learning about Justice Stephen Breyer getting robbed at machete-point, fellow Justice Antonin Scalia was getting cozy in the hallowed halls of the University of Chicago Law School. A few years ago, Scalia criticized the law school's political drift to the left. But just before Valentine's Day, they kissed and made up. On Monday, Scalia gave a speech at U. Chicago, where he used to teach (and served as faculty advisor to the Federalist Society). He also offered some, how shall we say, unexpected career advice for attorneys who are just starting out.... -
5th Circuit, Ann Althouse, Barack Obama, Books, Clerkships, Depositions, Drinking, Drugs, Fat People, Gay, Lesbians, Nauseating Things, Non-Sequiturs, Politics
Non-Sequiturs: 01.05.12
* Pepsi lawyers offer a creative (if disturbing) defense to a lawsuit by a man who claims he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew. [Madison County Record via The Atlantic Wire] * Will birther queen Orly Taitz get to depose — i.e., “rupture the jurisprudential hymen” — of President Barack Obama? That would be […] -
Biglaw, Music, Videos, Weirdness, YouTube
The Squire Sanders Attorney Who Made the 'Most Epically Awful' Video of 2011
We talk a lot here on Above the Law about the difficulties attorneys have in finding a work-life balance. Often Biglaw life becomes all work, all the time. Or sometimes, burned out attorneys run in the other direction entirely and open a bike shop, but it rarely feels like there is a viable in-between. I’m […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.30.10
* Given LeBron, the Browns, and everything else, the one thing I think the city of Cleveland needs more of is guns. [WSJ Law Blog] * Am I in favor of a 68-year-old man punching a 15-year-old boy for not turning off his cell phone in preparation for landing? Hey man, it takes a village. […] -
Lawyer of the Day, Sports
ATL Lawyer of the Year: 1974
1974 was a good year. The IRA bombed the Tower of London, President Nixon was forced to resign in scandal, gasoline shortages led to long lines at the pump, a smallpox epidemic ripped through India, and famine savaged the continent of Africa. So yeah… great year, history! But in the midst of all this human […]
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Layoffs, Staff Layoffs
Staff Layoff Watch: Jones Day Also Cuts in Cleveland
Earlier this month, we reported on staff layoffs in the Los Angeles and Dallas offices of Jones Day. Now we’re hearing about additional layoffs at the firm, which raise the question: Could staff layoffs at JD perhaps be a firm-wide phenomenon, even if the firm only confesses to what it’s confronted with? Yesterday the Cleveland […]