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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.
Here we have another lawsuit that is based on Nintendo's Wii, the wildly popular gaming system for children that adults are strangely not embarrassed to love.
Sadly, this lawsuit doesn't involve a grown woman making herself sick by refusing to...
Haynes and Boone deferred its incoming first-year associates to November 30. First-years at the firm will be happy to know that the firm is keeping its promise and they will be starting just after Thanksgiving.
But they won't be starting at full...
This is Robert writing for both Evan and myself this morning since Evan's loaded for bear with meetings in Hong Kong and China this week and has no time. If you're in Hong Kong this week, contact us and we'll try to set you up with Evan. He may have...
Ed. Note: This is actually a list on out-of-state enrollment at public universities. It's not law school specific (as I had initially thought). I still think it's interesting to look at which schools have more out of state pull, so I'm leaving it up....