STUDY SHOWS SHARP DISPARITIES IN LAW ASSOCIATE PAY
The relatively recent movement to cut law firm associate salaries isn't likely to eliminate the dramatic compensation disparities between new attorneys, according to the National Association for Law Placement. A NALP survey of starting associate salaries for 2008 law graduates finds that the pay gap is wider than ever. A chart of the pay distribution shows a gradual bulge in the $40,000 to $65,000 range and a dramatic spike at $160,000, which was the starting pay at many large firms last year. Few attorneys fell into the pay ranges between those two peaks, however, and that valley has grown wider than ever as large firms continued to push up starting pay before the recession broke.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARE 0-FOR-5 AT SUPREME COURT THIS TERM
Environmentalists suffered a stunning 0-for-5 outcome in the U.S. Supreme Court this term, their "worst term ever," according to advocates and scholars. The defeats left the environmental community — and even its traditional antagonist in these cases, the business community — wondering where the Court is heading in this increasingly important area of the law. The defeats were particularly painful for environmentalists because they had prevailed in the courts below in all five cases. Although none of the five decisions is a landmark ruling, all raised bread-and-butter environmental issues, some with potentially huge implications for the ability of environmentalists and the government to enforce the nation's major environmental laws.
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