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Res Ipsa Blog is now on law.alltop.com 2008-05-07 20:52:38 Law.alltop.com is a one stop shop for legal news. It features a wide array of legal blogs; everything from the serious to the famous and even the funny.
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Top Ten Firms in the Nation in 2007 by Revenue and Profits Per Partner 2008-05-06 13:16:03 Rank
Firm
Partner
Profits
1.
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
$4.95 million
2.
Cravath Swaine & Moore
$3.30 million
3.
Sullivan & Cromwell
$3.06 million
4.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges
$3.01 million
5.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
$2.88 million
6.
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
$2.73 million
7. =
Cahill Gordon & Reindel
$2.60 million
7. =
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
$2.60 million
9.
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy
$2.53 million
10.
Kirkland & Ellis
$2.48 million
Rank
Firm
Revenue
1.
Skadden
$2.17 billion
2.
Latham & Watkins
$2.01 billion
3.
Baker & McKenzie
$1.83 [...] Read more:Top Ten
Top Out-of-State Firms in Texas (so that’s where all the Jenkens & Gilchrist folks went!) 2008-05-04 01:28:06 Based on Gross Revenues in Texas
in 2007-2008:
Jones Day $161.8 million
Weil, Gotshal, & Manges $140.4 million
Hunton & Williams $90 million
King and Spalding 82.2 million
Mayer Brown $64.2 million
Notably, Hunton & Williams is a newcomer to this exclusive club. Up $60 million from last year’s gross of $30 million, the increase in Hunton & Williams’ revenue [...] Read more:folks
, Gilchrist
, State
Fifth Circuit: Can’t Bill Full Hourly Rate for Non-Working Travel Time 2008-05-03 00:05:47 Yesterday, in In re Babcock & Wilcox Co., the FifthCircuit
held that firms cannot bill full hourly rates for travel time when the time is not spent working. The suit arose after the New York law firm of Caplin & Drysdale sought over $5.6 million in attorney’s fees and $745,000 in expenses following the [...] Read more:Travel
February 2008 Texas Bar Results Announced 2008-05-01 16:04:27 February 2008 Texas
Bar Results Announced
Bar Passage Rates for First Time Examinees:
Baylor Law School 95.83%
Texas Tech University School of Law 92.86%
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law 92.31%
South Texas College of Law 88.24%
St. Mary’s School of Law 86.96%
University Of Texas School of Law 80.00%
Texas Wesleyan School of Law 79.59%
University Of Houston Law Center [...] Read more:February
Supreme Court Upholds Voter Photo Identification Requirement 2008-04-30 17:34:05 On Monday, in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, the SupremeCourt
upheld the Indiana law requiring voters to have a government issued photo identification card in order to vote. Suit was brought by opponents of the law who claimed that the requirement to have a photo identification card created a substantial barrier for [...] Read more:Identification
, Photo
, Requirement
, Supreme Court
, Voter
Scalia’s Interview on 60 Minutes 2008-04-27 19:01:30 Charming and surprisingly funny, at 72, Scalia seemed to be twenty years younger and in the best of health during his interview that aired today on 60 Minutes. “Nino,” as he is affectionately known, is only child and was born to his Italian immigrant parents. Scalia grew up in Queens, New York and eventually earned [...]
Celebrating the Summer: A Look at the Lighter Side of Law School 2008-05-10 20:06:55 Finals are over! Here’s to the summer and the end of the 2L year!
First-Year Memories:
Funny Law Review Articles:
The Contribution of the Infield Fly Rule to Western Civilization
Baseball’s Infield Fly Rule is one of the most hotly contested topics in American law today…
School
.htm">Law School
Attire: A Call for a Uniform Uniform Code
Style of dress matters, and [...] Read more:Summer
Attrition Rates at Texas Law Schools 2008-05-15 16:55:17 1 University of Houston Law Center 1.79%
2 SMU Dedman School of Law 1.81%
3 The University of Texas
School of Law 2.13%
4 Texas Tech University School of Law 2.99%
5 South Texas College of Law 4.45%
6 St. Mary’s University School of Law 4.99%
7 Texas Southern University—Thurgood Marshall School of Law Read more:Rates
, Schools
Tips for Law Students: A Better Way to Buy and Sell Books 2008-05-17 09:14:54 Traditional law school wisdom dictates students who want the best prices should buy their books from half.com and then sell them back on amazon.com. There is an even better way to handle books purchases and sales: bigwords.com.
Bigwords.com is a price aggregator that takes into account the condition of books you want to purchase, how quickly [...] Read more:Books
Tips for Lawyers and Law Students: Schedule Meetings with Non-Outlook Users 2008-05-19 22:54:35 Sending a meeting request through Outlook
is an easy way to coordinate schedules and pick meeting times. Have you ever wished there was a way to easily schedule meetings with individuals that don’t use Outlook? Now there is: whenisgood.net allows you to highlight the dates and times you are available to meet, and then have [...] Read more:Lawyers
, Meetings
, Schedule
Cindy McCain Releases Her Tax Returns 2008-05-23 17:57:28 After promising to never release her tax records even if she became first lady, CindyMcCain
released the first two pages of her tax returns today. Her gross income came in at over $6 million in 2006 and she paid over $1.7 million in taxes. While John McCain made less than 5% of that amount, [...] Read more:Returns
Excerpts from Justice Scalia’s New Book 2008-05-26 12:43:16 The ABA Journal has published a must-read excerpt from Justice
Scalia’s new book.
The Brief:
Use paragraphs intelligently; signpost your arguments.
Use words that guide the reader
Make it interesting
The Argument
Appreciate the importance of oral argument, and know your objectives.
Have your opener down
Be cautious about jokes
Never tell prepared jokes. They almost invariably bomb. In R
The new iPhone is almost here. How will it affect your practice? 2008-05-27 17:57:45 The new iPhone
is set to be unveiled in less than two weeks. Here are the top new features of the second generation iPhone:
1. Browse Westlaw and Lexis Faster: 3G Connectivity
The new iPhone will run on a “3G” or third-generation network. While that translates to speeds of up to 42 Mbps, (think ten times as [...]
A reader’s query: Is it worth going through three years of law school to become a prosecutor? 2008-05-29 19:45:22 In response to my survey of starting salaries for entry level positions at district attorney’s offices around Texas, one of my readers wrote in asking whether it was worth going through three years of law school to become a prosecutor
. I’m posting my answer here so that others can add their thoughts and comments on [...]
Supreme Court of Texas: FLDS children to be released 2008-05-29 18:10:49 The TexasSupremeCourt
upheld the court of appeals decision, agreeing that the removal of the FLDS children was not warranted. The Court pointed out that there are numerous measures available to the district court to protect the children short of separating them from their parents, such as issuing temporary restraining orders, or removing the [...] Read more:Supreme Court
Average Starting Salaries for Texas Law School Graduates 2008-06-01 13:33:45 Continuing on the theme of whether going to law school is worth it, here is a look at the average starting salaries for Texas
law school graduates, as originally published by The Princeton Review Best 170 Law School
s, 2008 Edition. (The average starting salary for Texas Southern graduates was not included in the article.)
Law School
Average
[...] Read more:Graduates
, Salaries
Cost to Earnings Ratios at Texas Law Schools 2008-06-03 22:36:21 University of Texas
law students, on average, get the most bang for their law school buck. There are only two other schools in Texas where students make more in their first year than they spend in law school: the University of Houston and Texas Tech. At the other end of the spectrum, Baylor and Texas [...] Read more:Earnings
, Ratios
, Schools
Debt to Earnings Ratios at Texas Law Schools 2008-06-11 05:38:13 A low average cost of education doesn’t always translate to less debt on graduation. For example, although SMU has the highest average cost of education of all law schools in Texas
, graduates from SMU carry less debt on average than graduates at Baylor and St. Mary’s. Similarly, Texas Wesleyan has the third highest cost of [...] Read more:Earnings
, Ratios
, Schools
Supreme Court Rules in Guantanamo Bay Detainee Case 2008-06-12 10:15:09 Holding: Terrorist suspects held in Guantanamo Bay have the right to file habeas petitions in federal courts.
Majority: Kennedy, Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter
Dissent: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito
To quote from Scalia’s dissent: “The Nation will live to regret what the Court
has done today. I dissent.”
Full-length opinion.
Source: Reuters, SCOTUSblog
[...] Read more:Rules
, Supreme
, Supreme Court
Paying off Law School Loans: What You Need to Know about the CCRAA 2008-06-16 18:39:41 According to the ABA, 87% of law students borrow money for their law school education. The average law student at a private school graduates with over $83,000 in student debt, while those who graduate from public schools have, on average, over $54,000 in debt.
In 2007, the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA) was signed [...] Read more:Law School
, Loans
, School
University of North Texas Law School Settles on a Location 2008-06-27 11:50:34 The University
of NorthTexas
and the City of Dallas have selected a location for the proposed University of North Texas College of Law. On Wednesday, the Dallas City Council agreed to spend over $16 million renovating the old Dallas City Hall to make it the home of the “first pubic law school in [...] Read more:Law School
, Location
, School
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