Morning Docket: 11.25.14
* "Have a taste of this. It will do you good in so many ways." Louisa Moritz, one of Bill Cosby's alleged victims, is interested in filing a class-action lawsuit against the comedian. [Fox News Latino]...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 11.26.14
* Indiana Tech Law has yet another new dean after a little more than a year of operations -- he currently serves as a dean at the second-best law school in the nation, Cooley Law. [Journal Gazette] * A...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 12.01.14
* What's happening to all the Bingham partners that are not joining Morgan Lewis? Here's the latest on the lateral moves of "the Forgotten." [Reuters (sub. req.)] * "Is that a banana in your pocket or...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.04.14
* "[I]t’s hard to find anybody as handsome as Antonin Scalia." Some would beg to differ, but as it turns out, legal scholar Bryan Garner can brown-nose with the best of them. [WSJ Law Blog] * For the...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 12.18.14
* Many Biglaw firms seem to be dragging their feet to match Davis Polk's generous bonus scale. Why's that? According to one partner, these bonus matches have cut into his firm's profits by about 4...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 01.14.15
* In May 2014, we told our readers about the sad state of financial affairs for assistant district attorneys in Massachusetts -- they make less money than courthouse janitors. Now is the state finally...
View ArticleAssociate Bonus Watch: Half-Davis Bonuses Make For Unhappy Campers
Even if you're not a New York firm, some of your associates will be unhappy if you pay a fraction of the Davis Polk scale.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 02.03.15
* Who's the meanest Supreme Court justice of all time? Science has the answer and it's not Justice Scalia... [Eric Posner] * Harper Lee is publishing a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird (affiliate link)....
View ArticleMorning Docket: 06.24.15
* Partners at this law firm tried a threesome, but it didn't exactly work out as expected, so now they're scaling it back to just one at a time. (And by this, we of course mean that Porter Scott's...
View ArticleStat Of The Week: Dubious ROI In A Booming Lateral Partner Market
There is increasing doubt about the efficacy of a law firm growth strategy based on lateral partner acquisitions.
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