- Ex-White House Lawyer Accused of Strangling Wife Now Faces a Civil Suit – News – ABA Journal – Plaintiff is a lawyer at Skadden. She's seeking $30 million, and doesn't want him to use their marital assets to post bond (the attack was precipitated by divorce proceedings).
- Legal Pad: Famous Last Words: Is the Job Market Picking Up? – The worst may be behind us, but there's likely still some pain to come.
- Law Blog Obituary: Lawyer and Novelist Louis Auchincloss – Law Blog – WSJ – The deceased was recognized as "one of America's pre-eminent novelists of manners and a portraitist of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant upper crust." He spent some time at Sullivan & Cromwell and another firm as a T&E lawyer. His son Andrew followed in his footsteps; he used to be a T&E partner at White & Case. But Andrew has strayed from the WASP fortress and is now an SVP at Bernstein Global Wealth Management, a historically Jewish firm. Our condolences to his family and friends.
- Chicago Law: Understanding the flat-fee contract for legal services – Includes interview with K&L Gates and client Brunswick, who are working under a flat-fee arrangement for litigation.
- lawjobs.com Career Center – First-Year Associates Dish About New TV Series ‘The Deep End’ – More people who think the show sucked. As we tweeted recently (follow @lawshucks), the comparison shouldn't be to Grey's Anatomy, it should be to Gossip Girl (which is way better, but at least has a similar tone)
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