I read an article yesterday about a guy who's suing his law school for discriminating against slow typists. He claims that exams are s...

The Wall Street Journal has a new blog about juggling home and work. That's the kind of phrase people who are committed to their caree...

Any readers in the UK can get the Anonymous Lawyer novel (paperback from Vintage Originals, a division of Random House) over at Amazon UK fo...

A reader e-mailed to ask what I thought about the summer associates being beneficiaries of the recent law firm salary bumps. Frankly, if we...

I'm sorry I was unable to post yesterday. The firm decided to shut down the Internet for a while, in order to stop associates from e-ma...

We're feeling pressure to match the salary increases announced over the past few days at some New York-based law firms. So far, as far ...

A historic day at the firm today. The partnership held elections this afternoon for a handful of leadership positions that recently opened ...

I caught a review today of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza called "The Enemy At Home." In it, he blames the cultural left for Se...

One of my associates marched into my office today to tell me his wife is pregnant, he wants to be present at the baby's birth, and he wa...

I think I need to apologize for yesterday's post. I get a little caught up in the law firm world every once in a while and lose touch w...

As the 2008 Presidential candidates begin to declare themselves, I've started thinking about whether I might want to enter the race. Af...

I'm a little late with this, but I've been asked by some readers what I think about the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and Rosie ...

An associate ran into my office this morning with urgent news: Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz broke up. Personally, I've never like...

Late night in the office. I just woke up a candidate on the East Coast who we decided to make an offer to. He interviewed off-cycle, becau...

An associate came by my office about an hour ago and said he watched the President's speech tonight on streaming video over the Internet...

I took a few minutes out of my afternoon to check on the Baseball Hall of Fame election results. I can't quibble with the two selection...

My colleagues in New York have been e-mailing all day telling us about a rotten smell permeating the city today. I assumed it was the stenc...

There's a rat in the office. Well, there's two. There's the ingrate female associate down the hall who keeps filing sexual har...

I overheard someone in the office talking about Harriet Miers resigning from her job as White House Counsel. What a quitter. She's lik...

I got an e-mail this afternoon from an associate who I'd put to work over the holiday with an assignment, asking if I wanted to meet to ...

People have been straggling back in here all day, after as many as three full days away from the office for some of them. Ridiculous, obvio...