Seward & Kissel
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BiglawBiglaw Firm's 125-Year Time Capsule Contents Seems Ancient Mere 9 Years Later
Seward & Kissel prepared a time capsule in 2015 to be opened in 2140... It's already a glimpse at a long gone era. -
BiglawBiglaw Firm Hosts Therapy Dogs To Provide 'Fun, Memorable' Office Experience
The office can drain a lawyer. Keep it upbeat. 
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PodcastsBiglaw Office Policies: You Catch More Associates With Honey Than Vinegar
Latest podcast also talks about ranking the best law schools the worst way possible. -
BiglawLaw Firm Closing Up Its Offices For The Month Of August
They're going fully remote this summer. -
BiglawLaw Firm Celebrates Pi Day With Greatest Baking Show On Earth
Firm serves up some sweet treats. -
BiglawSeward & Kissel Designs World's Longest Miniature Golf Hole
A law firm tradition unlike any other. 
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BiglawIt's April And This Firm Is Showering Associates With Cash
Get out the umbrellas, because this firm is making it rain. -
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, MoneyWith Deadline Looming, Firms Continue To Issue Raises
Keeping your associates in the dark as to their financial futures is not the credited way to improve morale. -
Morning DocketMorning Docket: 05.31.16
* Do not mess with federal judges: Shortly after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump criticized Judge Gonzalo Curiel of the Southern District of California at a political rally by calling him a “hater,” the judge ordered that internal Trump University documents from a consumer fraud trial be unsealed. [POLITICO]
* The Clark County Defenders Union that represents Zohra Bakhtary condemned Judge Conrad Hafen in an open letter, writing, “[h]andcuffing an attorney who is merely doing her job to teach her a lesson is simply improper and has never been done in the history of Nevada.” [WSJ Law Blog]
* When we last checked in with Stephen DiCarmine, Dewey’s ex-executive director, he told a judge that due to financial constraints, he’d like to represent himself at retrial. Now, he’s hired Rita Glavin of Seward & Kissel for the job. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Uh-oh… Mossack Fonseca, the law firm behind the Panama Papers leaks, announced via Tweet its plans to close offices in several offshore tax havens. The firm will shutter offices in the island nations of Jersey, Gibraltar. and the Isle of Man. [VICE News]
* Who knew a Libor-rigging trial could be so exciting? Former Barclays trader and criminal defendant Ryan Reich was scolded by a judge after he interrupted a co-defendant’s testimony with shouts of “no, no, no, no.” [Big Law Business]
* Cassandra Q. Butts, former deputy White House counsel and longtime friend and advisor to law school classmate President Barack Obama, RIP. [Washington Post]
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Morning Docket: 02.16.12
* It looks like the Biglaw buzzwords for 2012 are “challenge” and “uncertainty.” Good! Great! Grand! Wonderful! Speaking of uncertainty, where are the spring bonuses? [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Kodak got the go-ahead for a $950M bankruptcy financing deal. Just think, if you had taken pictures using a film camera instead of a […]
