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Ed. note : Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks , which has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker .
Huzzah! Unemployment is down this week. OK, we're not that excited. It's not easy to get excited about the ...
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It's exam time. As we all know, stressed out law students tend to have colorful phrases about difficult exams. There's a common, sometimes sexually charged vernacular. "That exam raped me," or "I made property my bitch," are things you're likely to hear on campus around this time.
Well, the ...
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* Incentives to donate your hunted meat. [ Tax Prof Blog ]
* Somebody is going to sue the Biggest Loser, right? [ Legal Blog Watch ]
* Charlie Rangel is kind of a disaster. [ Going Concern ]
* Is law still a "white man's game"? [ Law and More ]
* Denying cert. [ Courtoons ]
* ...
Congress
Charles B. Rangel
Ed. note: ATL has teamed up with FantasySCOTUS , the premier Supreme Court fantasy league. (For more background, check out this WSJ Law Blog post .) On Fridays, the 10th Justice will analyze league voting to predict how the Supreme Court may decide upcoming cases.
Welcome to the second ...
World
Ed. note : Welcome to ATL's first foray into serial fiction. "My Job Is Murder," a mystery set in a D.C. appellate boutique, will appear one chapter at a time, M-W-F, over the next few weeks. Prior installments appear here ; please read them first.
Susanna Dokupil can be reached by email ...
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On Wednesday, we reported that Patton Boggs was keeping its salary freeze in place. In November, we told you that Covington & Burling was instituting a salary freeze , even though the firm didn't do it last year.
But the news coming out of D.C. isn't putting a damper on the holiday ...
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Unemployment numbers are in and it looks like more people are back to work. More employees = more employee benefits, hence a new need for employee benefits attorneys, hence the Job of the Week. As always our friends over at Lateral Link will help you land this job (or one of the hundreds of ...
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As tout le monde knows, Levi Johnston -- the Alaskan hunk who fathered Sarah Palin's grandchild, and who came thisclose to becoming the Republican VP nominee's son-in-law -- recently posed for Playgirl. To the disappointment of many, he refrained from full-frontal nudity (but did bare his bum ...
White House
Last year, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison based its bonuses on the Cravath scale . This year, it has decided to buck Cravath and "upsize" to the Sullivan & Cromwell scale . That means seventh year associates get $5,000 more in their stockings than those at Cravath-scale firms.
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Yesterday, we reported that Harvard Law School was making a change to its grading curve before finals. We told you that HLS lifted the requirement to have a certain percentage of the class received a "low pass" in the law school's new High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail grading system.
After our ...
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[ Ed. note : This post is authored by Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney of Kinney Recruiting , sponsor of the Asia Chronicles. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past two years. You can reach them by email: asia at kinneyrecruiting ...
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[ Ed. note : This post is authored by Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney of Kinney Recruiting , sponsor of the Asia Chronicles. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past two years. You can reach them by email: asia at kinneyrecruiting ...
Congress
* Columbia's manifest destiny has hit a roadblock. [ Daily News ]
* [Cue Howard Cosell voice] Down goes the unemployment rate! Down goes the unemployment rate! [ Wall Street Journal ]
* Citigroup, we're all waiting for you to get your act together. [ New York Times ]
* Arizona court ...
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Washington, D.C
Getting sued for malpractice, even if the claims lack merit, is never fun. Earlier this week, we wrote about Seyfarth Shaw , which is being sued by Tae Bo star Billy Blanks for malpractice (and being sued by a current partner for breach of fiduciary duty, among other claims).
Let's declare ...
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At an all associates meeting today, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe revealed its much talked about new associate compensation structure. Starting in 2010, Orrick will be moving away from lockstep in a big way.
Essentially, Orrick has separated associates into three classes: associates, ...
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* Firms are gearing up to raise rates. No really. [ WSJ Law Blog ]
* Mandatory gym class for fat college kids. [ Legal Blog Watch ]
* The lawyer who would be king -- literally. [ AP via Law.com ]
* All you ever needed to know about jury duty. [ Justice ]
* Should legal blogs ...
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This afternoon brings tragic news. Casey McGinnis, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan who was previously reported missing , has passed away. From AnnArbor.com :
A University of Michigan Law School student reported missing last month hanged himself, Washtenaw County ...
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A new study out from Northwestern says that law school administrators really care about the U.S. News Law School rankings . The National Law Journal reports :
Like it or not, the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of law schools profoundly influences the way those schools are ...
