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Peer Pressure Compels Law Firms to Raise Summer Associate Salaries
When the Daily Report conducted its latest survey of summer associate pay, more than half of the responding Atlanta-area law firms initially said they were paying the same as last year. But many also asked, "What are other firms doing?" The result: After the survey's official close date, several firms announced they were raising weekly pay retroactively. And at least sixteen of the firms are now paying summers $2,000 or more a week, compared with two firms last year.Proposed federal pay rules raise concerns for contractors
By Tresa Baldas, The National Law Journal,Employment attorneys say corporations are bracing themselves for audits that could disclose flaws in how they pay employees and trigger future discrimination lawsuits. The anticipated audits grow out of federal proposals to adopt new standards for analyzing systemic pay discrimination among federal contractors, which make up about a third of all Fortune 500 companies.Large Firm Lawyers On the Move
S. Gregory Boyd joins Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz's New York office as partner and chairman of the interactive entertainment group. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.Law gossip blogs bedevil firms
Many of the nation's most renowned law firms have felt the public relations wallop delivered by law gossip blogs, those online tabloids that can turn an interoffice memo into a virtual billboard of bad news for partners or associates.Whether the topic is layoffs or love affairs, it seems that no subject is too edgy for sites such as Above the Law, Greedy Associates, AutoAdmit and a few others that dig up the legal profession's dirt.Year in Review: The Impact Players
2010 was a tough year for members of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct in their case alleging Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller violated the Texas Constitution and the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. The Commission has been named Impact Player of the Year for 2010. Other impact players selected were Nancy Atlas, Gary Cobb, Ophelia Camiña and Sharon Freytag, Gary Cruciani and Barack Obama.Pioneer in aid to clients with breast cancer finds new role
Haley Schwartz, founder of a pioneering program at Atlanta Legal Aid Society that provides legal services to women with breast cancer, joined trusts and estates boutique Abrams, Davis, Mason & Long last week.The Best End-of-Summer Books for GCs
Attorney Michael P. Maslanka offers some reading suggestions for general counsel to cap off the summer or gird for the fall. And for those who lament that they have no time to read books that don't produce immediate results, Maslanka says the value of a book, like that of a blind date, isn't because it's predictable but because it's random. Who knows what idea will strike you, taking you off in who knows what direction?Trending Stories
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