Buck up there, sad stock-photo law-firm associate! You’re about to get another hearty dose of professional advice, this one courtesy of David Gordon, the managing partner of Latham & Watkins’s New York office. Over a recent lunch in midtown Manhattan, we asked Gordon for his three (or so) tips for law-school students or young associates. [...]

Ambitious parents out there, ever have dreams of little Jack or Emma (the names that seem given to every child born between ‘00 and ‘07) someday running the most profitable law firm in the country? If so, pay attention to the path taken by Eric Friedman, who today was named as the new executive partner [...]

You’re a highly-respected Miami lawyer. You’re hired to vet a $5.3 million legal fee paid by a Columbia drug kingpin to his trial attorney. You’re indicted by the feds for approving the fee, which they say came from laundered funds. Following the indictment, the feds appear ambivalent, switching prosecutors in the case and reconsidering the [...]

We know we’ve been busy with this Paul Hastings news in the last twenty four hours, but there’s one more point (for now) we just have to hit. The firing of Shinyung Oh, which has been the talk of the biz this week (click here and here), points up just which big-firm lawyers might be [...]

If a firm is going to fire associates, what’s the best way to handle it?
That’s one of several questions raised by the email sent by a former associate at Paul Hastings that landed on Above the Law earlier this week. (Click here for the post.) The implication of the associate’s email: that the firm had [...]

A strange and frightening little tale from Boston hit our inboxes not a few minutes ago. According to this Boston Globe story, Michelle Moor, a former associate at Bingham McCutchen has filed a discrimination complaint against the Boston law firm, claiming it failed to promptly investigate her allegation that she had been drugged at a [...]

The BigLaw story of the week has without a doubt been about a mass email sent by an associate at Paul Hastings in San Francisco who was fired on April 30 — six days after having a miscarriage — allegedly for poor work performance. (See earlier LB post here, the ATL post that started [...]

Remember the lawyer-client combo who were fined more than $29,000 because the client used the f-word (or variations thereof) 73 times during a deposition? According to the Legal Intelligencer, the lawyer, Joseph Ziccardi, whom the judge said was culpable because he “snickered” at his client’s brazen conduct, is trying to get himself off the hook. [...]

Hmmm, where have we heard this one before: an aggressive, upstart state attorney general becomes embroiled in a high-profile and career-threatening sex scandal less than halfway through his first term? That’s right, it’s deja vu all over again — sort of. Swap Albany for Columbus, Ohio; and a prostitution ring for a consensual affair with [...]

Think of any email you send as being on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. So be careful before you press send. . . . First impressions are lasting; make a good one. — Susan Galli, hiring partner, Ropes & Gray
If post-Memorial Day start dates still apply, we’re at T-minus-three- weeks until 2L’s [...]