Alston & Bird LLP

What does this mean for associates who *aren't* 'on scale'?

Firm-branded stockings would have been cool too. Just not nearly as cool.

Congrats on the raises!

The firm's silent on whose behalf the donation was made.

Wonderful news!

And associates are NOT happy.

At least one office outside of New York is about to get New York money.

Some good news and some bad news.

Where are those bonuses?

The verdict is in, but that doesn't mean the firm will go gentle into that good night.

* The NFL is going to ask Jerry Jones to reimburse legal fees spent on Roger Goodell’s contract negotiations because Jones — prudently and responsibly — argued that the league had an obligation not to rubber stamp a multi-million dollar extension to this idiot. You’ve got to hand it to Goodell… he’s made Jerry Jones a sympathetic figure. [NPR]

* Tim Kaine is leading a handful of Democrats in an effort to make it harder to enforce anti-discrimination laws in the housing market. Oh. [Huffington Post]

* Kirkland & Ellis is out there doing crazy stuff to bolster revenue… and it’s working. [Law.com]

* SEC reportedly issuing subpoenas in crackdown on fraudulent ICOs. Apparently, the agency is concerned that some companies handing out magic beans may not be on the up and up. [Bloomberg Markets]

* Alston & Bird tagged by jury as 32 percent liable for its role in enabling millions in ill-gotten gains. [Daily Report Online]

* Harvey Weinstein’s carrier refuses to cover his legal bills. Apparently “Chubb” doesn’t cover horny men accused of misconduct which seems ironic. [Variety]

* A dive into just how badly the Supreme Court kneecapped detained immigrants and their attorneys this week. [VICE News]

* The first editorial from the American Lawyer’s Young Lawyer Editorial Board tackles sexual harassment in the legal industry. [American Lawyer]

Which law firms made the cut this year?

Police believe this may have been a targeted killing.

* The Gorsuch hearings are set for March 20th. Now what should senators ask him? [National Law Journal]

* Seriously, what should senators ask him? [SCOTUSBlog]

* The CFPB is getting battered and bruised, but the D.C. Circuit may give it a fighting chance. [Law.com]

* Pepper Hamilton had a high profile year working the Baylor matter, but PPP is down 28 percent. They lose any more and they’ll have to change their name to Peper Hamilton. [Legal Intelligencer]

* Alston & Bird, meanwhile, saw a revenue boost. [Daily Report]

* Judge finds probable cause in criminal complaint against Chris Christie. Don’t worry, New Jersey prosecutors are too scared of traffic problems in their towns to do anything about it. [Law360]

* Florida has been busy. First the Docs v. Glocks ruling and now an abortion ruling. [Orlando Sentinel]

* My God. They can’t even pass background checks. [Politico]

* The top 10 law novels of the last 10 years. I wonder if She-Hulk made the list? (Spoiler: she does.) [ABA Journal]

* Here’s a roundup of the legal challenges against Trump’s foray into immigration policy. [Vice News]

* Oh and while we’re at it, here’s a couple more. [New York Times]

* The SEC has brought fraud charges over an $81 million Hamilton Ponzi scheme. It was an ambitious scheme, but if convicted, the defendants will have to… take a break. *Groan* [Courthouse News Service]

* Harvard Law Review elects it’s first female black president. [WBUR]

* Insider trading defendant John Afriyie earned a guilty verdict in less than three hours of deliberation. Sources say the jury would have been in faster, but they kept sticking on the fact that Afriyie had skipped bail and tried to hide out in New Jersey. Only a truly insane man would go to New Jersey willingly. [Law360]

* Alston & Bird wins malpractice appeal. [New York Law Journal]

* Remember Pokémon Go? Well the lawsuits are still out there. [The Recorder]

Oopsie!

Who's handing out raises now?

Now comes everyone's favorite part of the salary wars: the airing of grievances.

Which firms had pay that was high enough, perks that were good enough, and environments that were nurturing enough to make the cut?

* “This is, since the recession, the most robust job growth we’ve seen.” Nearly all students who worked at Biglaw firms this past summer as associates received offers of full-time employment. Offer rates haven’t been this high in more than a decade. [National Law Journal]

* Mommy, wow! I’m a big kid now! Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was finally deported from Mexico and booked into a juvenile detention center. Today, we’ll see if he’ll be moved to a big-boy jail, and in February, we’ll see if his case is moved to the grown-up court system. [Associated Press]

* Sorry, Hillary Clinton, but President Obama has no desire to be on SCOTUS. According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, while Obama “would have plenty of ideas for how he would do a job like that,” he “may have other things to do.” [The Hill]

* It’s so hard to get execution drugs that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is asking state legislators for alternative methods for carrying out death sentences, like death by firing squad, electrocution, and hanging. Seems reasonable? [Reuters]

* Arizona is so eager to kill people it hired Alston & Bird to go up against the Food and Drug Administration in the state’s quest to obtain the release of a shipment of execution drugs that it had imported to the country from India this summer. [BuzzFeed News]