The best social media posts of the week

A round-up of online musings, memes and more First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers [Legal Cheek on Instagram] View this post on Instagram A post shared by Legal Cheek (@legalcheek) Liam Payne’s intestacy and the importance of making a will [Leanne Crellin on LinkedIn] She’s out here singing to unstable law students, […]

NRF hands junior lawyers £500 to schmooze clients

Drinks are on Norton Rose Fulbright Photo by Al Elmes on Unsplash Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has launched a Client Relationship Associate programme which will hand associates a £500 business development budget as it gives them responsibility for managing client relationships. The programme gives more junior lawyers responsibility for the “development, growth and proactive management […]

Biglaw Partner Compensation Is Not Created Equal

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by ALM, what is the difference between highest profits per equity partner and the lowest PEP in the Am Law 100? Hint: Across the Am Law 100, PEP went up 12.3% last year. See the answer on the next […]

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Is That A New $2B Firm On The Horizon? — See Also

There’s Talk Of A Merger To Come: McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel are in conversation. Trump’s Divisiveness Is Bringing People Together: Say hello to General Counsels United! Goodbye, Ed Martin!: Though he was wildly unqualified for the job, he’s a top pick for getting replaced. The 2nd Circuit Orders Rümeysa Öztürk’s […]

Venezuelan TPS recipients tell justices to let status stand

Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan nationals urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to keep in place a ruling by a federal judge in San Francisco that prohibits Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from ending their designation under a special immigration program giving them temporary protection from deportation. Granting the government’s request and putting […]

General Counsel ‘No Longer Trust’ Biglaw

A new organization — General Counsels United — just launched. Less than two weeks after it was created, it boasts over 500 members. The group’s purportedly nonpartisan goal is to “to share information, resources, and strategies on how to support the rule of law and the independence of the legal profession,” but, more specifically to stand […]

Does Our Oath Have A Statute Of Limitations?

This year’s Law Day, May 1, was different from others. Entitled the National Law Day of Action, it was a day when more than 10,000 lawyers, including me, across the nation, reaffirmed our oaths as lawyers. The most important words are: “to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Every single lawyer […]