As soon as Donald Trump took office, he made it loud and clear that he was going to go bigly on immigration enforcement. Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff, demanded a daily quota of 3,000 immigration-related arrests. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have increased their social media […]
“Tip creep” has been a pervasive issue in American culture for some time now. Many businesses, faced with rising costs or insurmountable greed, have increasingly turned to tip encouragement as a means of underpaying their employees while simultaneously being reasonably assured malnutrition will not sap worker productivity. Personally, when faced with a new tip line […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to data collected by the National Law Journal for its NLJ 500 ranking, which firm on the list has the highest starting salary for associates? Hint: While most of Biglaw has coalesced at the $225,000 mark, this firm offers a starting salary […]
$125M Cowardice Begets New Law Firm: Guess which firm these founding members came from! Alan Dershowitz’s Much To Do About “Nothing” About Epstein List Leaves Him Worse Off: Is no one nearby telling him to shut up? Florida’s Got More Than Sunshine: Check out the state’s biggest law firms! A Case Of Secret Romance Hits […]
Jailed for 16 years A barrister convicted of rape has been disbarred by a disciplinary tribunal. James Boyle, who was called to the bar in 1999, was convicted of raping a girl under the age of 16, indecently assaulting a female under 16, and raping a female aged between 16 and 19. The offences occurred […]
You have the right to remain silent, Alan Dershowitz. No one is making you run to the Wall Street Journal and remind us again that you are up to your underpants — which you never took off! — in the Jeffrey Epstein mess. Four years ago, when Dersh was a sprightly 81-year-old, we opined that […]
Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm. Now that sounds crazy, but that’s because it is. We also discuss a lawyer’s biting response to a demand letter. A lot of the professional decorum advocates objected to the tone, but at a certain point how does the profession pushback […]
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Compensation has skyrocketed, and [firms are] just trying to do as much due diligence as possible. Laterals can be a big investment for firms. They want to make sure they get it right. — Brian Davis, a partner at recruiting firm Major Lindsey & […]
The romance between Texas bankruptcy judge David R. Jones and Biglaw partner Elizabeth Freeman has birthed some intense controversy that remains ongoing. See, Jones, the (now former) federal bankruptcy judge, somehow didn’t recuse himself from cases involving Freeman, the (now former) partner at Jackson Walker. As a result, Jones resigned and the Department of Justice sued Freeman’s former firm to try […]
(Photo by Angela Weiss – Pool/Getty Images) Dating back to his first term, Donald Trump’s judicial nominations included nominees who were deeply unqualified, deeply unserious, and deeply problematic. But none of them — not the ghost hunters or the blog boys — managed to bring over 900 former Justice Department lawyers together in protest. So, […]
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