* In Connecticut, going to grade school in a rich white neighborhood while black is now a crime. Brb, putting on my chunky racebaiting heels.
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Morning Docket: 04.29.11
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Morning Docket: 04.29.11
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The Royal Wedding: A Legal Look (Part 3)
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The Royal Wedding: A Legal Look (Part 3)
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Quote of the Day: Wall of Shame, or Wall of Virtuous Restraint?
This is what you see in the law firm world. Law firms try to keep up with Cravath, but it might not be financially prudent. You try to keep up with Cravath, and then two or three years later you go bankrupt.
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Quote of the Day: Wall of Shame, or Wall of Virtuous Restraint?
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Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.11
Roll Tide! * Here are some first hand accounts from Alabama Law students about the tornadoes. Finals have been pushed back until Monday
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Non-Sequiturs: 04.28.11
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Size Matters: What Not To Do With A Small Firm Website
Ed. note : This is the latest installment of Size Matters , one of Above the Law’s new columns for small-firm lawyers. I recently saw the Whoopi Goldberg commercial for Poise and I wondered to myself, why would she take part in such an ad.
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Size Matters: What Not To Do With A Small Firm Website
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Shortest Deposition Ever
If you already know what I’m talking about, I’m sorry, I don’t have very much to add. The deposition is so damn short, the transcript doesn’t contain case identifying information, and the pdf has been stripped of its metadata. Really, I only know what you know, a hilarious deposition took place earlier this April.
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Shortest Deposition Ever
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Career Center Survey: Comparing Compensation Systems
In the throes of the recession, many Biglaw firms jumped on the bandwagon to kill lockstep compensation in favor of a more merit-based system (though some have already fallen off the bandwagon). With a variety of compensation models currently in use among firms today, we want to hear from you about how you get compensated at your firm — and how you prefer to get compensated. Please take our short survey, brought to you by Lateral Link , and tell us what counts as billable time at your firm.
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Career Center Survey: Comparing Compensation Systems
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Top Ten Family Friendly Firms According to Yale Law Women
Family friendly firms are fun! At the begining of 2011, there were a bunch of stories about Biglaw women and their struggles to have (or produce) a family while hanging onto their jobs. We saw some important information about the rampant sexism in the legal profession.
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Top Ten Family Friendly Firms According to Yale Law Women
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Inside Straight: Empirical Proof That Twitter Doesn’t Work!
Ed. note : This is the latest installment of Inside Straight , Above the Law’s column for in-house counsel, written by Mark Herrmann .
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Inside Straight: Empirical Proof That Twitter Doesn’t Work!
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Severe Weather Open Thread: Everybody Alright Down There?
Tornadoes don’t get cute names like hurricanes. Unlike volcanoes, tsunamis, and earthquakes there’s really only been one cool disaster movie about tornadoes with halfway decent CGI — and it wasn’t a very good movie because you can’t be a good movie when your main star is Bill Paxton . And since tornadoes mostly strike in the middle of the country instead of densely populated coastal cities, many people take a “meh” approach to these devastating forces of nature
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Severe Weather Open Thread: Everybody Alright Down There?
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