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• Holland & Knight is the Next to Abandon Lockstep

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  I think it’s time for some new terminology.  Lockstep compensation referred in the past to associates moving up in pay scale in “lockstep” with their contemporaries.  All associates from the same class got the same raise, year after year.  But it also holds another connotation - that all biglaw firms move ...
  4 days ago

• Comments problem

  
  Tales of a Texpatriate — Authority: 129
  Well hell, yall.I just got an upsetting email from Haloscan, who I have used from inception for commenting on this blog. I liked that it was a separate, customizable pop up window and that I could moderate comments, there being trolls and nasty people out there in this world. Its been a fairly reliable useful service ...
  4 days ago

• Jermaine Dupri Denies Dissing Da Brat While She Is In Prison

  
  Wordonthestreetsmag.com — Authority: 611
  So So Def CEO Jermaine Dupri has responded to critics who claim that he is not supporting incarcerated rapper Da Brat. Related posts: Jermain DUPRI WINS $50K FOR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTA Lil Boosie Sentenced to 2 Yrs In Prison Prison Systems Is Big Business And Black America Is The target!
  4 days ago

• Kelley Drye Trifecta - Abandon Lockstep, Freeze Salaries, Pay Bonuses

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  In a firm wide email sent out yesterday, Kelley Drye managed to fold what would typically be three different stories into one.  Over the next two years, Kelley Drye will move away from lockstep compensation and into a merit based pay scheme.  Details have not yet been worked out.  As a first step, however, 2010 ...
  4 days ago

• Seyfarth Shaw Abandons Lockstep

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  Like many firms before it, Seyfarth Shaw  is abandoning lockstep starting in 2011.  Details haven’t been released, not even to the associates who must now spend next year trying to hit performance goals that have not been announced in order to receive salaries that have not yet been determined but that’s just ...
  5 days ago

• Sonnenschein Abandons Lockstep and Cuts Staff

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  There are two unconnected stories coming out of Sonnenschein today.  The first is that the firm has made staff cuts 14 days before Christmas.  The firm has confirmed the staff layoffs to abovethelaw.com but no details were provided on the number of staff cut.  No associates were cut. The firm also laid out ...
  1 week ago

• WilmerHale Ditches Lockstep

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  WilmerHale  is abandoning lockstep compensation and adopting a merit based three tiered system that should look familiar to anyone that’s read these pages over the past few months.  The new compensation plan, cleverly titled “career advancement program” or “CAP” will take effect in 2012.  But not to ...
  1 week ago

• Tories mulled weaker oil-gas emission targets: documents

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  The Conservative government has considered abandoning some of the greenhouse gas reduction goals set out in its 2007 green plan and allowing weaker targets for the oil and gas sector
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• Just a Face in a Book

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  It started with an email from a friend of a friend in Paris. No, that’s not right – the two of them had only a mixture of contempt and indifference for each other. Call it light mutual scorn. But they knew each other, and each had their site with the high-resolution Paris photographs, one with carefully composed ...
  1 week ago

• Different Read Alouds for Different Classes

  
  The Reading Zone — Authority: 512
  For the first time ever, I abandoned a read aloud with some of my classes.  I’ve always persevered through the ups and downs of read alouds, knowing that the payoff would be worth it in the end.  Some books do take longer to get into than others and I think it is important for my students to understand that you ...
  1 week ago

• My Interview with Author, Patti Maguire Armstrong

  
  Daily Donna-Marie: A Dose of Inspiration — Authority: 416
  Dear God, I Don’t Get It By Patti Maguire Armstrong Published by Bezalel Books ISBN # 978-0-9821222-3-5 I recently enjoyed the pleasure of an interview with author, speaker and "Mother Extra-Ordinare," Patti Maguire Armstrong about her newest book: Dear God, I Dont Get It ." Heres our interview: ...
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• Abandoning the Symbolic to Get Something Done

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  The old Bob Hope movie was forgettable – they all seem oddly the same – but it was one of those quick scenes that stay with you. Hope is there with some fetching woman, Lucille Ball in this case, and in quite a pickle, as everything was going just the way it shouldn’t go. It’s hard to remember all the things ...
  2 weeks ago

• DLA Piper Abandons Lockstep

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  DLA Piper has joined the lockstep march away from lockstep compensation.  In a memo today, the firm outlined its new associate compensation package.  In broad terms, it looks familiar.  The overall structure resembles the plan published recently by Orrick, a three tier system with levels within the tiers.  Unlike ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alta. lawyer fined for abandoning horses in snow

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  An Edmonton lawyer has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to 12 months probation for abandoning two horses in deep snow in central British Columbia last year.
  2 weeks ago

• Orrick Moves Away From Lockstep

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 480
  Orrick presented its new compensation plan to its associates today, and there was much rejoicing.  Unlike many firms that cut base salaries with discretionary bonuses, Orrick kept the $160k starting salary for first year associates.  After that associates will be arranged in three tiers, associates, managing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Charles Johnson, Political Baal Teshuva?

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 533
  By God, there’s something strange going on over at Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson, after a long period involving huge amounts of turmoil and combat among his Lizard followers, has turned away from his far-right Islamophobic rantings and penned an amazing post, Why I Parted Ways With The Right .  If I ...
  2 weeks ago

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