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There has been a lot of salary cut news and rumor this week. Given the deflationary pressure on associate salaries, one question keeps popping up: at what point does New York City cease to be a...
Update (5:40): King & Spalding has confirmed this report. Read the statement after the jump.
We've heard all kinds of things about King & Spalding over the past week. We now believe that...
With all of the carnage in the legal community, unemployed attorneys might have to look outside the box to find jobs right now. We suggest an "all of the above" strategy. Headhunters, personal...
The first news started to leak this morning about some terrible news at a top firm: White & Case [is] currently calling people and laying them off. I haven't heard anything in regards to scope, but [I] hear that it's big.
Associates at Cleary Gottlieb may not be starting their weekends on a happy note. But for legal secretary Kathy Henry, the weekend is off to a very good start.
Judge vacates $1.26B ruling against PepsiCo
Earlier: Legal Secretary of the Day: Pepsi's...
Ed. note: This post was originally published at 4:27 p.m. today. We have changed the timestamp to place it at the top of the page, but we will eventually return it to its original place.
We have confirmed the news of a Cravath bonus match with...
As we mentioned earlier this week, Steve Sanders -- a fourth-year associate at Mayer Brown, no relation to the 90210 character -- argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.
When we emailed him on Wednesday to set up an interview, we received...
Damian Bonazzoli is a senior staff attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court. According to the ABA Journal, he likely makes a five-figure salary. Apparently that wasn't enough money for him. His entrepreneurial side business got him caught up in a...