Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Led by Senator Ted Cruz, a bevy of GOP Senators have submitted a resolution to commemorate which Supreme Court decision in the month of June? Hint: Though the resolution nominally uses June to mark the decision since the Court issued the decision in […]
Times Are Changing At Debevoise: If there’s a partner on your case, make sure to clarify which kind they are. Paul Weiss Is Bleeding Talent Over Kneeling To Trump: Dunn Isaacson Rhee is making the most of it! Low Approval Runs In The Family: Brad Bondi loses D.C. race by an order of magnitude. Pete […]
Fund further growth Nnamdi Emelifeonwu, and Feargus MacDaeid Two former Magic Circle lawyers have raised $30 million (£22 million) to fund their AI-powered legal tech company. Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaeid — who worked together at Freshfields London office until 2017 — have secured additional funding to accelerate the growth of their company, Definely. The […]
Apply now The Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) has launched this year’s mentorship scheme for underrepresented groups, with a record 26 leading commercial chambers involved. This year, COMBAR’s programme offers around 250 aspiring barristers the chance to receive up to five one-to-one mentoring sessions with barristers from some of the country’s leading commercial sets. As part […]
* Debevoise maintains lockstep compensation but creates non-equity tier. [American Lawyer] * Supreme Court tech glitch blasted out orders before official release. Dismantling a constitutional republic must be done on a proper schedule or what are we even doing here? [Law360] * Paul Weiss loses another partner over Surrendergate. [Bloomberg Law News] * Judge approves […]
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Biglaw firms with single partnership tiers are now few and far between, with more big-name firms showing that they’re ready, willing, and able to welcome nonequity partners to their ranks. Cravath was one of the first longtime holdouts to cut bait and create a “salaried partner tier” (i.e., nonequity partners) back in November 2023. That move gave […]
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! It was a busy week for me, both a beginning and an end. I’m […]
Paul, Weiss shocked the world of Biglaw in March when they became the first — though not the last — firm to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from under an onerous Executive Order designed to extract a financial penalty for being affiliated with cases and causes that displeased the president. Since then, the firm […]
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: Religion cases spark both unanimity and division at Supreme Court (Zach Schonfeld, The Hill) Who’s a Party to a Case? Supreme Court Punts, for Now (Dan McLaughlin, National Review) How a Supreme Court decision […]
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