The Associate Pirate

The market’s march toward 18 weeks of paid maternity leave looks like it’s accelerating to a sprint, or at least a nice jog.
I’ve updated the maternity and paternity leave charts to reflect recent news at Dewey & LeBoeuf and WilmerHale, both of whom have moved to 18 weeks of paid maternity leave, as well as […]

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Kudos to Milbank Tweed for increasing their paid leave for primary caregivers to 18 weeks, and for reassuring associates that there won’t be layoffs at the firm. (A hat tip to David Lat for breaking the news.)
I just updated the running table of maternity leave policies here and on Above The Law.

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Kudos to Cooley Godward for growing yet again in Boston today. They just wooed Donald K. Stern, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, to join their Boston office. Considering the firm has been in Boston for less than a year, and is already up to 30 lawyers — including VC/start-up heavyweight John Hession as “Partner […]

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As Dan Slater puts it,
When the Law Blog heard last night that Bear Stearns, the deflated investment bank that was torn to pieces by the mortgage crisis, had
agreed to be sold to J.P. Morgan Chase for a measly two buck a share, a couple thoughts came to mind. The first was, “Argh, we should’ve pooled […]

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Just updated the clerkship bonus table to reflect new info at Ropes & Gray and Covington & Burling. Covington moved to $50K in DC (take that, Arnold & Porter!), but left the bonus at $35K in San Francisco. Covington already had a $50K bonus in NY, but interestingly the bonus for two years of clerking […]

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What with all the news about politicos and mala prohibita these days, this story might be a sign that we’ve jumped the shark: an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut was suspended, and stripped of his title as class vice president, after buying a bag of . . . Skittles.
Yes, the candy.
Politicians and their sweeties. The […]

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It took me a bit longer than usual to get out a post on ATL today. Interviewing scheduling and prep is afoot, and I was momentarily incapacitated by David Lat’s brilliant post about his Facebook woes.
But since the post features a running table of paternity leave, I’m mirroring that bit of it here:
Paid Paternity Leave […]

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Legal Blog Watch just posted about my post on ATL today:
If you’re trying to figure out which practice areas are hot, why not go to the source: the law firm associates who work in those areas. And that’s what Above the Law’s David Lat has done. Last week, he asked readers to […]

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I posted some results from our clerkship bonus/hiring survey on Above The Law today.
As with the maternity leave table, I’ll be mirroring the table of clerkship bonuses here as well. (A hat tip to Law Clerk Addict for compiling the first exhaustive list of clerkship bonuses, which I’m now supplementing with survey results and tips […]

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