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Here’s a first look at the law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2023 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.        

Goodwin brought on Lori Gordon, who was co-chair of their post-grant practice at Perkins Coie. She was one of several Am Law 200 partners to join new firms in D.C.        

Instead of “diploma privilege,” the ABA was now using “alternate pathways.” While the terms are not interchangeable, diploma privilege was absorbed into the alternate pathways category, according to the ABA.        

Diana Fabi Samson of Aidala Bertuna & Kamins argued that Maxwell qualifies as a third-party beneficiary to Jeffery Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with the Southern District of Florida.        

“The data looks a lot like what it was in the Great Recession,” said Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement. “We don’t think it’s because the legal market is going through a recession, but because the law firms are overleveraged.”        

The growth, including crossing the $2 billion mark in revenue, comes as Paul Weiss has decided to move to a two-tier partnership and a black-box compensation system for partners, said firm chair Brad Karp.        

“This appeal concerns a purported $44 million scrivener’s error,” Associate Justice Jeffrey Oing of the Appellate Division, First Department wrote in the decision. “It also is a reminder that proofreading is an essential, indispensable tool in the drafting of contracts.”        

The free release of 40 million pages of state and federal court decisions, comprising some 40,000 books of case law, is the culmination of a project that Harvard Law started in 2015 with support from Ravel Law and LexisNexis.        

The justices appeared at a Washington event together to stress the importance of civil disagreement and civic engagement.