by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
Gibson Dunn’s London office is looking for a “professional support lawyer” to provide “targeted training” and “individual coaching” to junior associates. Fair enough. But the original job listing went further, noting that “more hand-holding/explaining [is] needed for...
by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The trend won’t slow. It increases firms’ profitability as it ups leverage and typically lengthens the path to equity partnership. You have people who are [between 9 and 11] or 12 years out of law school...
by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
IOLTA account compliance and other financial management tasks pose big challenges to law firms — even to full-time accountants. For a litigator without formal financial training, keeping the books in order — and the firm ready to pass a bar association audit — can be...
by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
Last week’s meeting between the Trump administration and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have been disastrous for foreign affairs but hey! it did produce some dank memes. The subject of most of the humor is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. From the images...
by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)On the one hand, I feel sorry for today’s 6-year-olds who have to do active shooter drills in their elementary schools. On the other hand, in Mrs. Gallo’s first-grade class outside Trenton, New Jersey, in 1963, we practiced hiding...
by RG | Mar 3, 2025 | above the law
Hankering for a way to earn the right to practice without being subjected to a rushed and poorly executed bar alternative that resulted in refunds and a “Come back next time, it’ll be better!” certificate? What if instead you could get some hands-on lawyering...
