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Many firms are delaying their plans to reopen their offices... but not this one.
Biglaw Firm’s Easy, Breezy Approach To Office Reopening
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Biglaw Firm To Eliminate Salary Cuts And Award Lump Sum True-Up Payment On New Year’s Eve
Happy new year, associates!
Biglaw Firm Dials Back Austerity Measures For Everyone, Except Partners
It's good news (for associates, at least).
Am Law 200 Firm Cuts Salaries Firmwide, Defers First-Year Associate Start Dates
Will this firm ever return to its pre-COVID salaries? Employees aren't sure.
Another Biglaw Firm Gets In The Improved Parental Leave Game
Good job, Kelley Drye!
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Morning Docket: 12.01.16
* GCs just keep getting raises. Some reports suggest compensation is up almost 7 percent this year. But don't worry -- they'll still bitch and moan about Biglaw associates getting a small cost of living bump. [Corporate Counsel] * If you haven't been paying attention, William & Mary Law School has been on FIRE lately. No, literally, the school is on fire. Call 911. [WAVY 10] * Seventh Circuit may soon rule en banc to ban sexual orientation bias. You know, until Congress and the President impeach the entire Seventh Circuit to bring it back. Wow that was an absurd sentence and yet it's entirely plausible right now. [Law360] * Kelley Drye enters the Texas market. [The Am Law Daily] * Heroic big banks are demolishing patent trolls while everyone else continues to suffer, which sounds about right. [Law.com] * China's got a new cybersecurity law and it's not good news for foreign businesses. [Fortune] * But don't worry, the U.S. is now just as intrusive with new rules taking effect today that allow judges to order broader government hacking for investigative fishing expeditions. So... yay! [Ars Technica]
NY To $180K, The Bad News — Who WON’T Be Matching?
Update: More Biglaw compensation bad news. What firms will not be matching the Cravath compensation scale?
A Benchslap Postscript: Mo’ Words, Mo’ Problems
These poor lawyers before the D.C. Circuit just can't catch a break.
Benchslap Of The Day: LMAO At D.C. Cir.
This is funny. You should read it.
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Above the Law readers identify the most underrated firms in a wide range of practice areas, from antitrust to bankruptcy to labor and employment to tax....