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I've been following the news this morning about the Ropes & Gray associate accused of insider trading as part of an investigation into the Galleon Group hedge fund.Ropes & Gray released a statement, saying in part: "We are deeply disappointed about this situation, which suggests an extreme breach...
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Published 4 months ago


Just read about a lawsuit against PepsiCo, regarding Aquafina water, where the plaintiffs won a default judgment of $1.26 billion because a legal secretary forgot to respond to the complaint.This is why we have the associates do our secretarial work.Gosh, what a lesson for firms that actually...
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Published 5 months ago


You may have caught a glimpse of the firm on national television this past Thursday, when we locked an associate inside the compartment of a hot-air balloon and sent her flying across the Colorado landscape. Unfortunately, she somehow escaped before the balloon took off, and when the craft...
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Published 5 months ago


A very successful annual firm luncheon yesterday.We've been trying to figure out how to cut costs in a way that most associates won't recognize as cost-cutting. Trim some expenses that would otherwise be a little too much to bear in this economy.Killing the annual luncheon would have been...
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Published 6 months ago


Above The Law leaked a memo from Sheppard Mullin about problems in the firm's bathroom. Apparently a few weeks ago, someone urinated on the floor of the women's restroom. Today, "the perp struck again but this time the act was even more disgusting." They've got security cameras to narrow down...
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Published 6 months ago


There was a letter to the editor in the New York Times yesterday:By taking away the possibility of easy employment in high-paying jobs, the economic downturn may end up helping the current crop of law students.Very few law students at elite schools make meaningful explorations of the broad array...
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Published 7 months ago


Above The Law writes about a legal organization that asks for a family photo along with a resume.We tried that.We stopped.Most of the people we hire? I don't want to see a picture. Have you looked around law school recently? Sitting in front of a computer all day doesn't exactly do wonders for...
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Published 7 months ago


There's been some news recently about Kate, a 19-year-old heading to law school at Northwestern.Much of the reaction on the Internet has been negative -- she doesn't have any life experience, she's too young to be deciding she wants to be a lawyer, she'll find it difficult to make friends....I...
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Published 7 months ago


I was on a panel this morning, a breakfast for unemployed lawyers through some organization that sprouted up sometime during the recession to help unemployed lawyers network with other unemployed lawyers so they can all pretend they're accomplishing something by talking to each other about...
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Published 7 months ago


Day Pitney beat us to it. They've got a "new definition" of their summer program --"The summer apprenticeship program will be an eight-week course designed to prepare law students for the practice of law through practical, day-to-day applications and on-the-job training. Apprentices will learn...
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Published 7 months ago


Jones Day apparently thinks it's better than we are. Or at least one of their partners wrote a memo claiming so. Didn't name us personally, but I'm sure we're one of the firms he's referring to. "[P]rotecting partners' incomes on the corpses of associates and staff," "slash[ing] and burn[ing]"...
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Published 7 months ago


I wish Sarah Palin were a lawyer, because I'd hire her in an instant, despite the "hiring freeze" that's been keeping us from doing much hiring at all lately (as well as the "salary freeze," the "bagel freeze," and the "no more air conditioning non-freeze"). I know she's been getting battered in...
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Published 8 months ago