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Rex Gradeless: Follow the Tweeter

Tweeting for social media in law

Sep 29, 2009 3:30 PM CDT

Summer Associates Report Fear, Anxiety and Lots of Food

Stress and anxiety are on the rise among law students employed this summer at large law firms, according to a new survey. But the summer associates could assuage their worries with food and drink offered at social outings that still were on the agenda. American Lawyer’s survey of 2009 summer…

Sep 29, 2009 3:16 PM CDT

Stanford Law Grad Gets Home Detention for Unpaid Taxes on Escort Earnings

Stanford law graduate Cristina Warthen has been sentenced to one year of home detention and ordered to pay $243,000 for failing to pay taxes on money earned running an escort service. U.S. District Judge James Ware also sentenced Warthen to three years of probation and said she could not continue…

Sep 29, 2009 1:35 PM CDT

New Apple GC Gets Stock Options Currently Valued at $18M

Apple’s new general counsel D. Bruce Sewell is getting 100,000 shares of Apple stock currently valued at $18 million. There’s just one rub, according to Legal Pad. The stock doesn’t vest for four years. Sewell, formerly the general counsel at Intel Corp., replaced Daniel Cooperman, Apple’s general counsel since 2007.…

Sep 29, 2009 12:02 PM CDT

Appellate Practice Head at Baker Botts is Leaving to Form Boutique

The head of the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of Baker Botts has announced that he is leaving the firm to form a new boutique with another litigator. Joining Jeffrey Lamken in the venture will be Steven Molo, a white collar and appellate…

Sep 28, 2009 10:50 PM CDT

Chadbourne Indefinitely Defers About 12 Incoming Associates, Will Pay $60K

Having already been told they would have to wait until January of 2010 to start work after graduating from law school in 2009, about half of the incoming class of first-year associates at Chadbourne & Parke has now had their start date deferred indefinitely. All 25 members of the class…

Sep 28, 2009 8:53 PM CDT

Ex-Lawyer Creates Virtual Theme Park with Educational Component

A former international trade lawyer has created a new website called Wonder Rotunda where children compete to win virtual food and products by correctly answering quiz questions. The website, modeled after a theme park, is based on lawyer Eric Garfinkel’s memories of his visits to the 1964 World’s Fair, the…

Sep 28, 2009 6:36 PM CDT

Judge’s Divorce Call a Happy Ending for Many Participants

Judge Scott Stephens oversees a lot of divorce cases. But because the parties routinely represent themselves and are simply seeking a legal end to the relationship in his Tampa, Fla., courtroom, they’re often cheery about what they see as a new beginning. It took about five minutes for Stephens to…

Sep 28, 2009 4:46 PM CDT

Suzanne E. Turner: Global Pro Bono

Working to make pro bono international

Sep 28, 2009 3:14 PM CDT

Charles J. Hynes: Jail Breaker

Promoting alternatives to jail terms for nonviolent offenders

Sep 28, 2009 3:11 PM CDT

White House Counsel Craig Loses Lead Gitmo Role

Problem-solver Pete Rouse, a former Congressional aide and top adviser, has replaced White House Counsel Gregory Craig as the individual in charge of the Obama administration’s planned closure of the United States military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, reports the Washington Post. The challenging situation requires the administration to find…

Sep 25, 2009 11:08 PM CDT

Cynthia Calvert: Practicing for Lawyers

Seeking work-life balance in law firms

Sep 25, 2009 7:56 PM CDT

Brooklyn DA Seizes Opportunity as Law Firms Defer Associates

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is taking advantage of the recession by hiring 30 associates whose start dates were pushed back by large law firms. But the DA’s office won’t be footing the bill. Instead, the associates are being paid stipends by the firms amounting to some $2 million in…

Sep 25, 2009 4:19 PM CDT

Skadden’s One-Day Offer Strategy Didn’t Hurt Acceptance Rate

An unusual job-offer strategy by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom didn’t hurt acceptance rates, according to the law firm’s hiring partner. The law firm raised some eyebrows when it decided to make all its summer associate offers on one day—Sept. 22—after the close of on-campus interviews. Some critics suggested…

Sep 25, 2009 2:24 PM CDT

For Happy Life, Do What You Want to Do; Lawyer Explains How

The first step to a happy life is to do what you want to do, says a lawyer and former U.S. Supreme Court clerk who has spent a considerable amount of time researching how to be happy for a book on the subject. And, for those who don’t know what…

Sep 24, 2009 11:50 PM CDT

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