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lawjobs.com Career Center – Skadden Offer Day: Did the Risk Pay Off? – Imagine that, students jumping on offers when received. 10 Lessons From the Tucker Max Premiere | BITTER LAWYER – When we meet BL we'll buy him a beer with the money we saved by avoiding this trainwreck of a movie about an unbelievable douchebag. We admit, we were slightly curious and extremely bored when we considered going. Litigator of the Week: Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel – She won for a NY political-appoBarack Obama: The Empire’s New ClothesBy Paul Street. Originally published at The Greanville JournalCarefully engineered myth and reality clash hard in Obama. But both his policies and advisors will soon tell us how much hope for change is justified—if any.Barack Obama and his followers continue to revise the history of his ascendance, pretending his campaign was rooted among the “outsiders.”The public line is a fiction, as even the most rudimentary research reveals. In fact, Obama’s own words d

Below is a listing of some of the state legislators who are also behind the Obama and the federally mandated health care measures now being concocted in Washington, against all the separation of powers, "consent of the governed 9th Amendment provisions,"  and public accountability and even fundamental regulation of those national and even global providers that such a law or measure would require, and thus nothing more than what I am referring to as the Torie . Having discovered lots about CCBS’s motion to dismiss Dan Rather’s $70 million wrongful-termination suit was denied. The anchorman will be allowed to proceed with his claim that he had been made a scapegoat for the network’s production of a piece about Bush the Younger’s military service, which ultimately turned out to be discredited. After the jump, the lawyers on the Related posts: More Client Problems for Quinn Emanuel Yahoo! Discrimination Suit Has Interesting PR Twist BigLaw All Over Big Tobacco Suit

LEWW is fascinated by ATL's Douchiest Law School contest. Official results haven't been announced yet, but based on our preliminary read, Yale seems to have notched a decisive first-round victory over the University of Texas, and it looks like Harvard has trounced UCLA. Stanford Law School, however, appears to have been decisively out-douched by lowly Georgetown. Conclusion: The relationship between douchiness and prestige is not linear. This week's weddings feature two YLS grads and two SWhite & Case, which was the posterchild for the demise of BigLaw in a New York Times article about Law Shucks from earlier this year, has finally gotten around to giving London some representation on the firm’s executive committee.Dimitrios Drivas, a New York IP partner, is stepping down for Oliver Brettle, managing partner of the London office .More on the management shakeup, and the firm’s dreadful third-quarter distribution after the jump.The London office has been glaringly omittedAs the legal profession copes with the worst economic conditions many practitioners have ever experienced, it might not seem like the right time for anyone with a secure job to give it up for an entrepreneurial new venture. But that's just what two senior associates at Quinn Emanuel have done, starting their own law firm because of what they perceive as a paradigm shift in the legal profession. As corporate clients seek more value for their legal dollar, Doug Colt and Tom Wallerstein are offerinUpdated, Sept. 9, 10:10 p.m. | Kathleen M. Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School, points out that an amendment to the McCain-Feingold law sensibly resolves this case without throwing out all limits on corporate electioneering activities.Updated, Sept. 9, 2:30 p.m. | Adam Liptak, reporting on the argument before the Supreme Court this morning, writes that Citizens United appears poised to win its case. The question now is how broad the victory will be. Updated, Sept. 8, 10:15 p.m. | Mic

Theodore Olson's Road to Championing Same-Sex Marriage Politics makes strange bedfellows, but none stranger than this Groklaw – Microsoft files notice of appeal against i4i ruling; stipulates waiver of bond, begs for stay Followup on the quickshucks from the other day Headhunters You can still call yourself prestigious if you work at the firms that make up today's fall recruiting open thread. But once you are outside of the Vault top 20 people start talking about "firm culture" at least as much as they talk about prestige. Here's the next batch: 21. Shearman & Sterling 22. O'Melveny & Myers 23. Quinn Emanuel 24. Ropes & Gray 25. Hogan & Hartson 26. Clifford Chance 27. Morrison & Foerster 28. Mayer Brown 29. Linklaters 30. Boies Schill

We’ve had some feedback that our assumptions eliminated some possible firms from the blind item about which firm was using the Five O’Clock Club for an imminent layoff.Based on our reading of the Washington Post article, we ran a report off the Layoff Tracker of all firms that had had exactly two rounds of layoffs of lawyers in calendar 2009.We’ve run another custom report that expands the criteria a bit: all firms that have had two rounds of layoffs in the past twelve mThe official Vault rankings are out today. This is the official list which will represent law firm prestige for the year to come. Law students care, associates care, and partners really, really care about how their firms stack up against the competition. Here are the top five law firms, according to Vault. You'll notice that this year's top five is substantially similar to last year's top five: Skadden has flipped-flopped with Sullivan & Cromwell . Otherwise the top fiThe view from the other side re health care President Thin-Skin Continues Assault on Evil Private Sector & Cable News Terrific!… Greta Interviews Couple Who Filmed ACORN Buses At Penn Town Hall Obama slams TV over health care ‘ruckus’ Obama Campaign Ad Firms Signed On to Push Health-Care Overhaul PRESIDENT ACCUSES INSURANCE COS. OF ‘FUNDING IN OPPOSITION’ Emanuel Wields Power Freely, and Faces the Risks Gulf Arab money ‘behind purchases of Israeli land’ BIG B

We've written about numerous lawyers turned reality TV stars here at ATL. When we've done so, we've identified them and/or their employers by name. E.g., Jeremy Anderson , Charlie Herschel , Victor and Tammy Jih , Yul Kwon , David Otunga , etc. If you voluntarily appear on a nationally televised reality show, whether as a contes

The last of our Football League season previews is now ready, and Rob Freeman is on familiar ground this evening, in the Championship.  As a quick reminder, the Championship match between West Bromwich Albion and Newcastle United is live on the BBC tomorrow evening. Let the schadenfreude commence! Seriously, though, good luck to everybody starting their season tomorrow. Well, almost everybody… 1. Sheffield United In: Leigh Bromby, Lee Williamson , Ched Evans (Manchester CitThis email messages from a reader is representative of many we've received, as well as many comments on recent posts: As a Biglaw summer associate waiting to hear about my future, I'd really like the site to focus on and publicize firms that give offers to all or most of their summer classes. story entitled "Summer Offer Rate Open Thread" generated tons of discussion at my firm from associates and summers. I know it will likely not control any hiring partner's decisions, but y

USA Today 16.07.2009 By Dan Vergano Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a planGood news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather.Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken Caldeira of the Carne

Good news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather. USA TODAY | Jul 16, 2009 Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a plan By Dan Vergano Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates and co-inventors, including climate scientist Ken Bill Gates turns his attention to controlling the weather Good news, folks. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has turned his attention to controlling the weather. Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a plan By Dan Vergano Five U.S. Patent and Trade Office patent applications, made public on July 9, propose slowing hurricanes by pumping cold, deep-ocean water in their paths from barges. If issued, the patents offer 18 years of legal rights to the idea for Gates an

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