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Attorney General’s Law License Suspended Over Groping Incident

The Indiana Supreme Court is on a roll lately.

After coming to the reasonable conclusion that the bar exam is going to have to be held remotely this summer, they’ve now handed down punishment for the state attorney general accused of groping women at a party.

Curtis Hill will have to check his law license at the door for 30 days after the Supreme Court accepted the disciplinary commission’s account of the events at a party celebrating the close of the legislative session:

[State Rep. Mara Candelaria] Reardon testified that Hill, smelling of alcohol and with glassy eyes, was holding a drink in his right hand and put his left hand on her shoulder, then slid his hand down her dress to clench her buttocks. “A squeeze, a firm grasp,” she said.

Hill, 59, also refuted testimony from three female legislative staffers — ages 23 to 26 at the time — that he inappropriately touched their backs or buttocks and made unwelcomed sexual comments during the party.

While the 30-day suspension is less than the 60 recommended by the disciplinary hearing officer, it still places Hill in murky legal ground. Indiana requires the attorney general to be a licensed attorney and it’s not entirely clear if this suspension renders him no longer a licensed attorney. The governor is calling on Hill to resign — and, obviously, to drop out of the re-election race — but Hill’s shown no sign that he’s going to follow this advice.

Indiana attorney general’s law license suspended for groping [WSLS]


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Celebrity Law School Commencement Speaker From ‘The Office’ Hopes Graduates Will Sue Him

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You’re young lawyers. The law is so important. The rule of law is being attacked on a lot of different sides, in a lot of different, insidious ways, and it is super, super important to keep it going and to honor it.

I thank you all for your hard work. I’m really happy for you in this difficult time and sending you much, much love. I hope to meet each and every one of you and be sued by each and every one of you one of these days.

Rainn Wilson, who is perhaps better known as his Office character, Dwight Schrute, in his virtual commencement address to the Texas A&M University School of Law Class of 2020.


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Partner Shows All The Compassion You’d Expect From Biglaw (Read: None At All)

Listen, above all else, Biglaw is a business. I know that, you should know that, and folks that operate under a different assumption do so at their own risk. That is always true, even when there is a global pandemic raging. So, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that some Biglaw partners are sending around emails that could, at the most generous, be termed as tone deaf.

The email in question was sent to associates in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis by Andy Calder, a partner and member of the firm’s global management committee. The email scolds folks that they need to keep churning out billable hours and that the firm “isn’t a gravy train where you can just chill and be along for the ride” and that “the math is not going to work out well for you at the end of the year.”

Notice, if you will, the complete lack of empathy in the letter — no mention that people who work at the firm might be suffering from COVID-19 or have a loved one hospitalized with the virus, or that in-person school has been canceled and all the parents working for him are likely trying to balance the demands of their children with the demands of this job, or that the isolation caused by the pandemic can exacerbate existing mental health issues. Nope, none of these very real concerns are mentioned, let alone validated in the email. The message — from a member of the management committee — is clear: you are only useful to the firm if you keep on billing. And if you can’t bill because there is a goddamned pandemic going on? Tough shit, figure it out yourself.

You can read the full email below:

Folks,

Just hung up with some of the restructuring SPs. There are some huge cases coming in and they have no staffing. Thanks to everyone for stepping up so far on cases.

For those that aren’t fully occupied right now, and are not on a single restructuring matter because they have been hiding, let me spell out reality for you real quick. I am seeing a ton of money being left on the table on the matters coming in and I have seen all of your hours today (from most junior associate through SP). Am pretty shocked and the math is not going to work out well for you at the end of the year.

Bacon and Larson will continue to staff folks below SP over the coming days/weeks, I will be calling SPs personally. Given the market you should feel extremely lucky to be in an institution with too much work. That doesn’t mean you have an annuity here. If you get a call or don’t have enough to do, I suggest you grab a restructuring assignment ASAP and roll up your sleeves. If it was me in 2008 I would be pre-emptively calling Doug or Adam after you read through the end of this note. This isn’t a gravy train where you can just chill and be along for the ride.

Andy

And if there was ever a question, this email makes it clear: associates are nothing more than billable hours.

When confronted with the substance of the email, Calder told Vivia Chen at Law.com:

“We’ve done above and beyond what firms have done during coronavirus. Our people are well taken care of. We’ve taken care of our people and will continue to do so.”

(Calder also told Chen, without disputing the substance of the email, “Some of that sounds genuine; some not. It seems embellished.” That screenshot though ¯_(ツ)_/¯.)

Regardless of what official COVID-19 policy the firm may have, the real life experience of associates at Kirkland couldn’t be clearer: associates should be busy making money for the firm so Kirkland can stay on top of the rankings and keep bringing in billions in gross revenue year after year. And the firm doesn’t seem to care what you are going through as the pandemic sweeps across the globe.


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Quinn Emanuel Adjusts Partner Compensation Due To Pandemic

The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc upon Biglaw as we know it, and firms we previously thought were untouchable are now making moves in response to the financial uncertainties that go hand in hand with market instability. Until today, we never would have thought that one of the biggest names in Biglaw would be making adjustments to its ledgers, but here we are.

We’re told that Quinn Emanuel, which came in 25th place in the most recent Am Law 100 rankings, with $1.25 billion in revenue in 2019, will be postponing partner distributions that were originally scheduled for April until July. On top of that, the firm has revised the size of partner draws for April, May, and June. When it comes to profits per equity partner, Quinn Emanuel is ranked No. 5 in the Am Law 100, with each partner raking in $4.5 million. “We’re focused on building up our cash reserves, given who knows what the future holds,” said John Quinn, the firm’s founder.

The American Lawyer has additional details on the scope of the pay adjustments:

One source familiar with the changes said that all partners would receive draws of $30,000 per month starting in June. Quinn would not comment on the specific size of the draws, but emphasized that reductions were not universal.

“Some people are getting less than before, while some are getting more,” he said. “It’s not true that all are getting reduced.” …

But partners at the firm who have seen their compensation dip are still in the dark about whether July distributions will return their compensation to where it stood prior to the COVID-19 crisis, with Quinn saying only that the issue would be revisited that month.

On the bright side, Quinn says his firm has been “gratified” because its financial performance has been strong through the pandemic thus far. “It’s like the whole economy went off the cliff,” he said. “We didn’t know what this was going to mean for us.” Hopefully Quinn Emanuel continues to see success as the COVID crisis rages on.

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Biglaw Firm Fires Staff Member Who Posted ‘Threatening’ Message About Being Forced To Wear COVID-19 Mask

If you’ve been looking for a way to quickly get out of your longtime career at a Biglaw firm, then perhaps suggesting in a public Facebook post that you have guns and ammo to show to retail staff who dare state that you must wear a mask to enter during the COVID-19 pandemic is the way to go.

On Friday, Kevin Bain, who worked as a document services manager in Thompson & Knight’s Dallas, Texas, office, posted the following rant on Facebook:

Bain, who started working at the firm in 2009, quickly found internet infamy as his post made the rounds on various social media websites. Eventually, the firm caught wind of his ill-advised post and thankfully took immediate action.

According to his now-deleted LinkedIn profile, prior to this episode, Bain had worked in the legal industry since 1997. Now he’s thrown away his entire career over a public health and safety requirement. Perhaps it’s all for the best; after all, he may have faced a future furlough or layoff thanks to the austerity measures many firms have taken due to the coronavirus outbreak. He just saved his firm the trouble.


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Another Am Law 200 Firm Is On-Board With Cost Cutting Measures

It seems the list of Biglaw firms that have taken an ax to costs due to the economic uncertainty caused by COVID-19 just keeps growing and growing. It probably seems that way because it is true. Since mid-March, every day has brought more news of the austerity measures Biglaw is taking to navigate these troubled waters.

The latest report of Biglaw austerity measures is from Thompson Hine. In 2018, the firm made $221,026,000 in gross revenue making it 137th on the Am Law 200. Now, according to reports, Thompson Hine is “aggressively” cutting its non-payroll expenses. The firm has also slashed quarterly partner draws by 15 percent. Staff compensation has also taken a hit of 1.7 percent, annualized.

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Magic Circle Firm Suspends Partner Distributions And Freezes Attorney Pay

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Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a giant international player with $1,967,034,000 in gross revenue in 2018 and more than 1,400 attorneys on the pay roll. And amid the COVID-19 economic downturn, the firm is doing everything possible to keep all those attorneys — and their legion of staff — gainfully employed.

In order to avoid any layoffs or furloughs the firm has instituted a series of austerity measures aimed at maintaining cash flow. As reported by Law.com, that includes suspending quarterly partner distribution. Plus lawyer pay globally has been frozen and bonus decisions — typically made in April — will be postponed until September. Freshfields is also considering optional reduced hours for employees that want that flexibility.

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Your Bar Association COVID Board Is Probably Not The Place To Downplay COVID

Lawyers are opinionated folks and the American response to COVID seems to be wrong in every conceivable vector — not enough tests, not enough ventilators, closing things down that wouldn’t have needed closing if we’d had enough of the other two — but the place to vent about your issues with the deep state for eating into your profit margin is not the bar association COVID board.

We’re not going to call out anyone specifically here, but there are lawyers hopping on local boards to complain about “idiot politicians” ruining the economy for a disease that isn’t likely to kill. Sadly, we actually wish we were calling out one specific attorney, but this is happening on a few lawyer groups right now. So let’s use this space as a friendly a reminder to these folks that they need to shut the f**k up.

People are going to the local COVID board to write obituaries for fellow attorneys and discuss how they plan to cope with the fallout from the virus. They absolutely aren’t there for your pontification about how we should all lick flagpoles for the economy. Nobody cares here; go find a QAnon board to populate.

It’s about knowing your audience not about trying (and in these cases failing) to be right. When everyone on the board is talking about losing a loved one, it doesn’t actually matter to point out that “well, actually, most people who contract the virus will survive.” Just because it’s true doesn’t make you any less of an asshole.


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