Trendspotting: Biglaw Firms Opening Up Shop In Regional Hotspots
Lateral moves are helping these firms gobble up market share in some of the busiest cities for business.
Morning Docket: 12.01.21
* In the only country where it is a regular event, the completely unforeseeable 28th school shooting of this year happened in Oxford, Michigan. [NY Times] * Saying Dr. Fauci has Dr. Mengele vibes is decidedly not the best way to celebrate Hanukkah. I know free speech is important; I just wish news sources were more quiet about it from time to time. [Vanity Fair] * If Roe v. Wade gets overturned, it's worth having a battle plan in mind. Here's a good start. [Scientific American] * Professor who goes on record saying "Hey! Sex discrimination is pretty good, actually!" proceeds to double down. Definitely won't be the basis for lawsuits if his female students just happen to have statistically significant lower grades than their male counterparts. [Daily Beast] * Nashville is banning booze on open air party vehicles. Where else are you supposed to drink after eating a goofy spicy chicken sandwich?! A bar?! [Tennessean]
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Lawyer: Apple Should Protect Me From My Porn Addiction
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Having a Gay Old Time: Couple Sentenced for Massive Theft from Vanderbilt Law (and Statutory Rape)
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How LexisNexis CourtLink And Lexis Snapshot Deliver Business Wins
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Are Occupiers Finally Learning The Value Of Competent Lawyering?
I’ve said from the beginning that while the goals of the Occupy Wall Street crowd were not wrong, their tactics have been lacking. The denizens of “Wall Street” (at least not in its geographic form) didn’t cause the collapse of the American economy; they’re just trying to figure out how to profit from it. There’s […]
A Crime of Fashion: When Law Students Dress Like Hookers
One of our tipsters alerted us to an episode of TLC's What Not to Wear -- the world's greatest guilty pleasure television show -- that we seem to have missed when it aired last year. The show featured a 2L from a southern law school, but this girl dressed more like a prostitute facing arraignment (sorry, Reema) than the lawyer representing her. So who is she, was she hot, what law school did she attend, and were Stacy and Clinton able to change this girl from a hooker to a looker?
Is On-Shore Outsourcing the Biglaw Wave of the Future?
Hot on the heels of support staff layoffs and on-shore outsourcing efforts at O’Melveny & Myers, we have news of another law firm doing the exact same thing. Except this law firm has figured out a way to do it with half the tears and way less relocation angst. On-shore outsourcing might be better for […]
4 Ways That Lexis® Create+ Delivers Personalized Legal Drafting
Lexis Create+ merges legacy drafting tools with AI-powered assistance from Protégé and secure DMS integration enabled by the Henchman acquisition.