AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Paralegal Found Naked, Dead in Her Boss and Boyfriend’s Bathtub

We’ve got some sad news today out of Philadelphia, where Julia Law, a young paralegal, was found dead in her employer’s bathtub. That may seem odd, but as it turns out, Law had been dating her boss, well-known defense attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr., for a month or two, and she had a key to […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – How To Handle A Final Exam Screw-Up: Law Professors Take Note

Look, we can’t have a final exam screw-up season without something happening at NYU Law School. For some reason NYU is like the ground zero of exam mishaps. But not all screw-ups are created equally. Today we have a story of a professor who didn’t screw-up his final exams out of laziness or carelessness. Instead […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – How Not To Write A Cover Letter

Different schools of thought exist when it comes to cover letters for job applications. Back when I applied for legal jobs, I took a “do no harm” approach, using the cover letter merely to transmit my résumé, transcript, and writing sample. But jobs were more plentiful back then. In a tougher legal job market, employers […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The ATL Top 50 Law School Rankings: Yes, We Went There.

A new rankings approach based no on inputs, but on outcomes. Read more on Abovethelaw.  

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The Top Ten Family-Friendly Law Firms (2013)

As many of our readers know, 2012 was the year of the Clifford Chance Mommy. If you’re unfamiliar with her tale, she wrote an epic departure memo that detailed a day in a harried mother’s life (e.g., waking up at 4 a.m. to start her day and going to sleep the next day at 1:30 […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – ATL March Madness: The Law Firm With the Brightest Future — Finals

The basketball tournament may be over, but ATL March Madness still has one more round of voting. It all comes down to this. After four rounds of voting, we finally have our finals set. And it’s not the matchup I would have predicted. Negotiating the harsh realities of a challenging economy is a tall order, […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Which State Has the Most Difficult Bar Exam?

With spring semester drawing to a close, graduating law students must be getting really antsy. After all, the July 2013 bar exam is just around the corner, and in this kind of a competitive job market — you know, the kind of job market where only 56 percent of graduates secured long-term, full-time jobs that […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Unhappiest Job in America? Take a Guess

Workplace satisfaction isn’t quite the hot topic it used to be. In the 90s, everyone got all touchy-feely because an unhappy employee could pick up stakes and move at a moment’s notice. Today, the primary axis of worker satisfaction is, “Am I working?” But satisfaction surveys still fascinate, and Jacquelyn Smith of Forbes recently posted […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The Biglaw Pie Chart That Tells You Where All The Hours Went

Previously, we brought you an important flowchart about when you are allowed to leave work from Rob Complains About Things. Rob’s a former Biglaw associate who now artfully describes his prior experiences. Today, Rob is back with the accurate billable hour breakdown that clients aren’t allowed to see…. Read more on Abovethelaw.

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – The 2014 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Law school deans, are you ready for your report card? The U.S. News law school rankings are due out in a couple of hours. But Above the Law sources have given us a sneak peek at the Top 25, this time in order. And not just from anonymous sources. Mike Spivey of the Spivey Consulting […]