Here are some tidbits to take your mind off Maryland’s heartbreaking loss yesterday: Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker gives three immediate observations about the legal implications of the health care legislation, including how it might affect the Supreme Court. ...

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In my story today about a collection dispute between two lawyers, I was unable to include some interesting expert witness testimony. Leonard H. Shapiro, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in Owings Mills, testified for the defense about the $10,000 legal ...

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NALP has done a survey of lawyer starting salaries and has discovered that the median salary for new lawyers in 2008 was $72,000 and the mean was $92,000. This tells us… approximately nothing. Almost nobody is actually making these salaries. ...

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It was only a matter of time. Our 2009 incoming associate salary chart showed earlier this month that Venable was still planning on paying the current crop of incoming associates–well, the crop that was supposed to start in September but ...

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Today, check out The Daily Record’s first-ever Money issue of Maryland Lawyer, which contains our annual associate salary survey, financial information on the nine firms in Maryland with revenues over $40 million, and stories on the state of the big-firm ...

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For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it must be a case of deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say. The Supreme Court, over her dissent Monday, upheld a provision of an AT&T Corp. pension program that had subtracted from ...

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Above the Law has a leaked memo from DLA Piper saying that the firm is cutting first-year associate salaries. DLA Piper confirms. Last year, the firm’s number was $160,000 in larger markets, including Baltimore. Now, the newest incoming associates will ...

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Ever since I missed dining next to VP Joe Biden and his wife Jill by mere minutes (they patronized Booeymonger deli in Chevy Chase for brunch recently), I’ve been hoping for re-do. What are the perks of Bethesda living, after ...

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The January issue of Baltimore Magazine includes its annual salary survey. (Quick aside: try saying “salary survey” five times fast.) The story quotes salaries for various law types: Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy makes $230,000 per year; Scott ...

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NALP has released a survey on compensation for lawyers in the public sector. It shows that the median entry-level salaries run from $40,000 for civil legal services lawyers to $50,000 for state prosecutors. In between are lawyers for public interest ...

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