Quick Shucks – 2/8/10

• Sidebar – Shon Hopwood, Mediocre Criminal Turned Top Jailhouse Lawyer – NYTimes.com – Seth Waxman raves about the guy's work. Pretty interesting.
• Being Available During Holidays Proved Fortuitous for Steptoe Associate, Now VP at AOL – News – ABA Journal – It's rare that there's such a clear connection between working on the weekends and success, but it's nice to see here. We've always felt the people complaining about "lifestyle" issues weren't the ones actually in the office on the weekend taking on extra work anyway.
• Finances First or Culture First? – Adam Smith, Esq. – This piece is just excellent. They analyze a number of decisions Cesar Alvarez made that took Greenberg Traurig from nowhere 10 years ago to #10 in the AmLaw 100.
• Hogan Lovells names global heads for five core practices- Legalweek – It's a bunch of two-headed monsters. The major practices will have two heads, one in each of the US and Europe. Not surprisingly, the Hogan & Hartson guys are running the US side of corporate, finance, and disputes, while the legacy Lovells guys (it's all men) are running the European side. Jeanne Archibald from the Hogan side is in charge of the government practice and the only woman. Andreas von Falck from Lovells will run IP out of Dusseldorf. So they basically went co-heads on everything important then gave each other sole control of a minor practice each. It's like they tried too hard to make it even.
• Loyola L.A. Law Grad Gets Savaged in the Shark Tank – Above the Law – Jason Calacanis is absolutely right when he talks about how retarded this show is. The VCs have no connection to reality and it's just a disgusting abomination of how real investors treat potential business partners. This show can't get canceled soon enough. Actually, The Deep End needs to get canceled first, then this.

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