- Sidebar – In Supreme Court Clerks’ Careers, Signs of Polarization on the Bench – NYTimes.com – Kirkland & Ellis (led by Ken Starr) is rounding up the conservatives; Seth Waxman at WilmerHale, the liberals (but they're slightly more embracing – 35/40 clerked for liberal justices, compared to 22/22 clerks for conservatives hired at K&E from 1990-2006)
- EXCLUSIVE: News Corp Negotiations To Buy MGM "Screeched To A Standstill" – If there's one thing that big-firm lawyers routinely screw up, it's confidentiality agreements. All too often they end up getting passed down to junior associates drunk with the power of negotiating an agreement on their own yet blithely unaware of the consequences of changes. Plus, most big firms' models are years behind inhouse counsels' (because the firms rarely have to manage the process after the NDA is signed). So this one doesn't surprise us at all.
- Law Firms Cut Junior-Lawyer Bonuses by as Much as 71 Percent – Bloomberg.com – Not much you probably didn't know already, but it's always nice to see the MSM pay attention to BigLaw
- Law.com – O’Melveny’s Srinivasan Tapped for Skilling Supreme Court Argument – Daniel Petrocelli, who heads O'Melveny's trial practice, argued the case at trial and the 5th Circuit appeal, but they've decided to let Srinivasan handle the SCOTUS argument.
- Law.com – Former Law Firm Partners Suspended for Not Paying Taxes – One of the lawyers was a former partner at Kaye Scholer. Who argued a tax case at the Supreme Court.
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