Recent Headlines from Above the Law
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Biglaw
Sullivan & Cromwell's July 6 Reopening Plan Is Allegedly Not Mandatory
Angry associates continue to express displeasure with the firm's edict. -
Biglaw
Prestigious Biglaw Firm To Reopen In July Without Work-From-Home Flexibility, Sources Say
Associates are displeased with their lack of options for remote work. -
Biglaw
Sullivan & Cromwell Enters The Special Bonus Arena
The firm Biglaw used to rely on for spring bonuses is back at it. -
Biglaw
Sullivan & Cromwell Makes A Move In The 2020 Bonus Games
What goodies does this firm's bonus black box hold? -
Biglaw
Sullivan & Cromwell Makes A Move In COVID-19 Bonus War
Associates will get a nice monetary thank you from the firm -- but when? -
Biglaw
Layoffs Come To Top 20 Am Law Firm
Not even law firms at the top of the heap could avoid making cuts. -
Biglaw
Unlike In The Past, This Firm Won't Help If You Were Hoping For More Bonus Money
The firm's market-busting spring bonus promises of yesteryear are nowhere to be found. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Firms Learn The Hard Way: If You Don't Want Controversy Don't Pay For A Brett Kavanaugh Event
Kirkland, Sullivan & Cromwell, Gibson Dunn among others called out in new ad campaign. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Yelp Reviews Are Your Dose Of Surreal Comedy Today
This gives us an idea... why not an Above the Law sponsored competition? -
Health Care / Medicine
Celgene To Sell Psoriasis Drug To Amgen For $13.4B, Clearing Key Hurdle To BMS Deal
Sullivan & Cromwell, Kirkland & Ellis, Arnold & Porter, Wachtell, and Baker Botts all have their hands on this deal. -
Law Schools
Harvard Law School Grad Gives Up Biglaw To Tell People How To Use Simple Appliance
Harvard Law School produces another non-lawyer success story. -
Biglaw
If A Biglaw Firm Falls In The Woods And No One Issues A Press Release About Its Lack Of Diversity...
This is an industry-wide problem... and it's time to shine the spotlight on the folks keeping quiet about it. -
Biglaw
Former Biglaw Chairman Dies In Fiery Blaze
According to a colleague, he 'thought about the law as a noble calling, and not just as a business or a profession.' -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.15.19
* States win big victory blocking Trump’s birth control rules from taking effect. Now I guess he’ll have to build a wall around vaginas too. [Law360]
* Former Sullivan & Cromwell chief John Merow and his wife were killed in an apartment fire on Saturday. [New York Law Journal]
* Quinn Emanuel adds Sandra Moser to co-head the firm’s white collar practice. [National Law Journal]
* Are the days of law firm expansion coming to an end? I’m guessing no. [Law.com]
* William Barr will now face the Senate’s rubber stamp treatment. Here’s a quick recap of this retread. [Vox]
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Biglaw
Biglaw's Last Hope For Better Bonuses Just Let Associates Down
Maybe next year this firm will stop following the leader? -
Biglaw
Biglaw Partner In Hot Water After Twitter Outburst Inspired By Kavanaugh Hearing
Cursing out women isn't a great idea when you're supposed to be a professional. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.23.18
* Because there is never a moment without drama in this administration, AG Jeff Sessions has told White House counsel Don McGahn that he’s probably going to have to quit if President Trump fires Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein. [Washington Post]
* Meanwhile, White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short says the president “has no intention of firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller.” Hmm… we’ll just wait right here until those firings don’t happen. *insert Jeopardy music here* [CBS News]
* “[T]here is no human being, on the planet, with more knowledge about federal criminal law than Michael Dreeben, and no one with more expertise than him.” Meet Michael Dreeben, special counsel Robert Mueller’s Supreme Court closer. He’s argued more than 100 SCOTUS cases, and is a force to be reckoned with. [ABC News]
* Hiring for the law school class of 2017 is “up,” with 75.3 percent of graduates employed in full-time, long-term jobs that require law degrees or are considered “JD advantage” positions — but you probably shouldn’t get too excited about that. The only reason the percentage of those employed is higher this year is because the class was 6 percent smaller. In reality, entry-level hiring has decreased. [ABA Journal]
* Which Biglaw firm did Wells Fargo turn to ahead of being hit with record fines that turned into a $1B settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency? That would be Sullivan & Cromwell, which “always [tries] to play absolutely straight with the regulators.” [American Lawyer]
* Riley Safer, a spinoff of Schiff Hardin, just elected its first managing partner, and she may be the first black woman to lead a national law firm. Congratulations to Patricia Brown Holmes as she leads the legal profession in the future. [American Lawyer]
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Family Law
That Awkward Moment When Your Twin Brother Is A U.S. Citizen At Birth, But You’re Not… And Your Parents Sue The U.S. Government Over It
Deporting an 18-month-old baby doesn't further America’s national security interests.