“Transition” or “Chasm?”

by | January 17, 2017 | Articles, Recruiting

The following article was first published earlier this week in The Lawyer.  We reproduce it here with their kind permission. Two days after the US Presidential election, the Atlantic magazine’s lead article, “The Trump Transition Begins,” opened with this short...

New York to $190K!

by | June 7, 2016 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Recruiting, Strategy

Well, not quite. “New York To $190!” was, of course, the long-running headline Above The Law printed frequently in more innocent and/or palmier days, with (we suppose) a combination of hope and bemusement. Well, Cravath’s pre-emptive strike of going...

Associate Comp & Econ 101

by | December 10, 2015 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Recruiting

This will not be a lecture. However. In the course of navigating published analysis and coverage of our beloved industry, I can rely on regularly coming across pat assertions displaying such frightful ignorance of basic economics that I’m forced to conclude the...
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