I've been following the news this morning about the Ropes & Gray associate accused of insider trading as part of an investigation i...

Just read about a lawsuit against PepsiCo , regarding Aquafina water, where the plaintiffs won a default judgment of $1.26 billion because a...

You may have caught a glimpse of the firm on national television this past Thursday, when we locked an associate inside the compartment of a...

A very successful annual firm luncheon yesterday. We've been trying to figure out how to cut costs in a way that most associates won...

Above The Law leaked a memo from Sheppard Mullin about problems in the firm's bathroom. Apparently a few weeks ago, someone urinated o...

There was a letter to the editor in the New York Times yesterday: By taking away the possibility of easy employment in high-paying jobs, th...

Above The Law writes about a legal organization that asks for a family photo along with a resume. We tried that. We stopped. Most of the pe...

There's been some news recently about Kate, a 19-year-old heading to law school at Northwestern. Much of the reaction on the Internet ...

I was on a panel this morning, a breakfast for unemployed lawyers through some organization that sprouted up sometime during the recession t...

Day Pitney beat us to it. They've got a "new definition" of their summer program -- "The summer apprenticeship program ...

Jones Day apparently thinks it's better than we are. Or at least one of their partners wrote a memo claiming so. Didn't name us p...

I wish Sarah Palin were a lawyer, because I'd hire her in an instant, despite the "hiring freeze" that's been keeping us f...

We at the firm are mourning Michael Jackson's death this morning. We were one of his many creditors, and are hoping for a speedy liquid...

I have been meaning to explain this past month-long disappearance. I was hiking the Appalachian Trail. I mean, I was visiting a South Amer...

I'm out of town this weekend at an associate's wedding. I hate when my associates get married, but I hate it more when they're ...

It's extraordinarily frustrating when things don't work out the way you hope they will. I thought swine flu was going to be a real ...

New plan. We don't want to lose out on young legal servants should the economy turn around and clients actually decide they want to was...

To: All Associates Re: Summer Lunch Policy Please note the following changes to our summer lunch policy. Be aware that these changes are un...

The New York Times wrote an article yesterday about high-functioning alcoholics. As if it's a problem to be a high-functioning anythin...

Happier news today, at least for incoming associates at one competitor. Stroock is offering $75,000 to incoming associates, as long as the...

Sad day at a firm much like mine. We've had some layoff-related suicides as well, but at least we're competent enough not to let t...

The firm's Board of Directors met this evening to discuss the recent layoffs and additional possible actions we might take to stem the r...

Anonymous Daughter just forced me to watch a video on YouTube of an unattractive British woman singing very loudly. Apparently this Susan B...

I received an invitation today to an associate's wedding. I don't know why any of my associates would think I would want to see the...

An e-mail from one of our offer-rescinded summer associates somehow made it through my spam filter and ended up in the pile of e-mail printo...

None of our peer firms are admitting this -- and we're not admitting it publicly either -- but we're absolutely rescinding some of o...

I caught someone this afternoon writing Twitter posts during a meeting. I took a peek at her BlackBerry screen and read what she was writin...

To: ALL Re: More Layoffs Just kidding. See, it doesn't always have to be bad news. I assure you, we are doing everything possible to a...

The New York Times is reporting that a man is suing the New York Yankees and the City of New York, saying his civil rights were violated wh...

Oh, Passover, why did you have to end so quickly? Usually I'm the first one to speak out against holidays, for the way they guilt us in...

We'd been trying to avoid this, but we finally had to do some layoffs today at the firm. It's a sad day for the handful of attorney...

Like a lot of firms, we've been trying to find a way to push the start date of our incoming class of new associates, since there isn...

The New York Times wrote an article today about one of our competitor firms paying associates one-third of their salary to take a year off....