AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Breaking: Cravath Announces Year-End Bonuses; Let the 2012 Bonus Season Begin!

Lat here. Earlier this month, I wondered: could the bumper crop of new partners at Cravath bode well for bonuses? Although firms like Cravath generally make partnership decisions with a focus on the longer term, as opposed to based on short-term financial performance, a class of five partners is one of the largest Cravath has […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Law School Class Sizes Continue To Shrink. Are We Close To A Crash?

Today brings us more evidence that the number of people applying to law school is dropping. A new Kaplan survey shows that 51 percent of law schools have cut the size of their incoming classes. Of those schools, 63 percent claim they are cutting in response to the weak legal job market. While the job […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – In Defense of the Clifford Chance Mommy’s Husband

Unless that’s a butler coming down the track, this family is going to struggle. Last week, we published a departure memo from an associate at Clifford Chance who could no longer juggle parenting and Biglaw. Since we published, the story has gone everywhere. The Huffington Post weighed in, and so did the New York Times. […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Departure Memo of the Day: Parenting Gets The Best Of One Biglaw Associate

I’ve read this departure email three times this morning, all while a sleeping six-week-old snores up at me. It’s a departure memo where a Biglaw associate kind of admits that she can no longer juggle the demands of parenthood and the demands of being a Biglaw lawyer. In a way, it’s heartbreaking. I don’t know […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Ranking The Worst ABA-Accredited Law Schools

Hey, don’t blame us. We didn’t make this list of the worst law schools in the country. In the Above the Law Career Center, we just give law schools letter grades, based on user surveys completed by ATL readers. But the Daily Caller has compiled a list of the ten worst ABA-accredited law schools. Mwahaha. […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – National Jurist Ranks The Worst Cities For Young Attorneys

Given the glut of attorneys being pumped out into the market on a yearly basis, recent graduates are being told to consider applying for employment in places that they normally wouldn’t — rural places like the cities in the Midwest or the Deep South. And for some, it’s been working out, but for others, the […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Gradenfreude: My Interview Horror Story (Or, How I Underwhelmed A Hiring Partner With My Law Degree)

Ed. note: Gradenfreude is a new series chronicling a recent law school graduate’s life after attending an unranked school. Feel free to email the author at [email protected], and he’ll respond ASAP. After all, it’s not like he has anything better to do. Hello my loyal readers — oh, and you commenters, too. A lot has […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Princeton Review Ranks The Law Schools With The Best Career Prospects

Good news, everyone! Princeton Review — the other, other white meat U.S. News — has released its very own law school rankings. This year, we are treated to the Best 168 Law Schools Rankings. As usual, the rankings are divided into 11 categories filled with mostly nonsensical results. After all, where else will you find […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Cam Girl Pleasures Herself In A Top Law School’s Library

Back in 2010, we brought you some news about a photo shoot that took place in a highly sexualized law library, with models getting hot and heavy between the stacks. That sexy shoot came courtesy of the No. 67 law school in the nation. Today, we’ve got even hotter news from an even more prestigious […]

AbovetheLaw Story of the Week – Lil Wayne Is Quite Possibly the Best Deponent of All Time

Depositions usually aren’t very exciting, but every now and then, you get a gem that’s worthy of public fanfare from the legal world. Take, for example, a deposition that we came across last year, in which a lawyer asked the deponent whether his “jurisprudential hymen [was] being ruptured.” Today, we’ve got some deposition fun for […]