The Associate Pirate

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 Dave 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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I’ve been posting a running table of maternity leave policies on Above The Law based on survey reponses, comments and tips, and thought I’d mirror it here, just in case your browser is showing you the cached version on ATL instead of the most up-to-date. I’ll keep updating both here and there. Also, a […]

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Last week, I posted a survey on Above The Law about leave and part-time arrangements. (You can still take it here and see some preliminary results here.)
I’ll be getting deeper into the substance of the results here and there but, for now, here’s a chart of how responses broke down on paid maternity leave.
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Lateral Link sent out a newsletter yesterday, with some pretty interesting stats on our ATL surveys so far:
Over the last 6 weeks Lateral Link has run sixteen surveys on Above The Law, and we have received over 20,000 responses. Some of our most popular surveys focused on whether associates were making their hours, and what […]

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Above The Law has been running a Second Favorite Blog After ATL contest, which ends tomorrow. So far, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog is way out in front, and a number of loyal voters have indicated that Above The Law is actually their second-favorite blog after Above The Law, so it’s Lattman vs. Lat […]

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So, now that we’ve been doing surveys together on Above The Law for a bit, Dave invited me to try my hand at writing some posts, so yesterday I posted on ATL.
Yesterday’s survey was on ATL’s Lawyer of the Year poll, and it will be interesting to see whether ATL readers mirror the Wall Street […]

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One thing that I kicked around with the guys at Lateral Link before joining the company was the concept of doing some online surveys, and generating some data that we could share with the associates we work with.
Well, we’ve gone from concept to execution in about 2 1/2 weeks. Starting today, I’ll be helping […]

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